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Use DA Form 2397-10 when you need to technical report of u.s. army aircraft accident, part xi - personnal protective/escape/survival/rescue data. Full title: TECHNICAL REPORT OF US ARMY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, PART XI - PERSONAL PROTECTIVE/ESCAPE/SURVIVAL/RESCUE DATA. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition February 2009, status not stated, 1 page(s), roughly 200 fields.
Authority sits in two places. OCSA owns the form, PAM 385-40 says when it is raised and where it goes. Routine cases need neither read in full — the page itself carries the sequence. The entries are completed by their subject or by unit administrative staff working from what that person supplies.
The formats are PDF, XFDL, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
A standalone reader is the safe choice for fillable work. Browser viewers vary in whether entered data survives the session, and there is no warning when it does not; a one-field save test settles it in seconds. Xfdl means IBM Lotus Forms. The Lotus Forms Viewer opens it; pdf readers and word processors do not.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- ContentArea1
- DATE
- DAY
- DAY_1
- DAY_2
- DAY_3
- DUTY
- EVAC_A
- EVAC_B
- EVAC_BB
- EVAC_BB_1
- EVAC_BB_2
- EVAC_BB_3
- EVAC_C
- EVAC_CC
- EVAC_D
- EVAC_E
- EVAC_F
- EVAC_G
- EVAC_GG
- EVAC_GG_1
- EVAC_GG_2
- EVAC_GG_3
- FIELD1
Header first, always. Name as your official records spell it, identification number, unit, date of preparation — these four index the finished record, and an error in them hides the document from anyone searching for it later. The substantive blocks can wait thirty seconds.
Tabbing beats clicking for coverage. The order was set at build time and tracks the page layout, so following it leaves no gaps. Boxes and buttons are clicked; where options are exclusive, one selection cancels another by design. Watch field width on long entries: one-line fields have no wrap, and what runs past the edge disappears in print though the screen still shows it. Move that text to remarks or a continuation. Never leave an inapplicable field empty — enter the nil mark, because a reviewer cannot distinguish a skipped question from a considered answer.
The signature closes the form and nothing precedes it. Draft status holds until it is applied, by hand or by an accepted electronic method. Countersignatures go in printed order, each dated at signing. Then one final read from the top, looking for the four recurring defects: empty mandatory fields, swapped digits in identification numbers, day-month inversion in dates, and residue from a reused file that goes forward as though intended.
The Privacy Act statement is read before the personal entries, not after. It gives the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is mandatory or voluntary. Once filled, your copy is a personal record and gets stored and transmitted accordingly.
Routing follows PAM 385-40 and nothing else — a named office, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file, according to why the form was raised. Copy it before it leaves. Retention is fixed by the records schedule for the series, which local practice does not shorten or extend.
Related forms are found by series and number. DA series documents under the same proponent or the same prescribing directive are commonly required as a set, and any form named on the face of this one goes forward with it. Assemble continuations, covers and transmittals before submitting, not after the query comes back.
A stored file goes stale silently. The proponent revises, a new edition date is published, and your copy says nothing about it — so compare the printed date against the edition in force before typing into it again. Completed submissions on an earlier edition are not reopened.
What is distributed here are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents. Independent site, no official standing, no forms of its own. Nothing on the page constitutes legal advice, and acceptance by any office is outside what can be stated. Put questions about entries, requirements or eligibility to OCSA or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 2397-10?
- TECHNICAL REPORT OF US ARMY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, PART XI - PERSONAL PROTECTIVE/ESCAPE/SURVIVAL/RESCUE DATA
- Which edition is current?
- February 2009
- Who is responsible for this form?
- OCSA
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL