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DA Form 2397-6 handles one job: technical report of u.s. army aircraft accident part vii - in-flight or terrain impact and crash damage data. The official title is TECHNICAL REPORT OF US ARMY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, PART VII - IN-FLIGHT OR TERRAIN IMPACT AND CRASH DAMAGE DATA. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is February 2009, status not stated, running 2 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: OCSA maintains the content, PAM 385-40 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
Pick by how you will enter data: PDF, XFDL on offer. Typing means fillable pdf, where the boxes accept keystrokes and hold them on save. Handwriting means printable pdf, a flat page image sent straight to a printer. Neither version changes what appears on the page.
Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest. The xfdl file is IBM Lotus Forms, used inside Army systems, and opens in the Lotus Forms Viewer alone — no pdf reader, no word processor.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- AIRCRAFT
- AIRSPEED
- ANGL_DEG
- ANGL_DOWN
- ANGL_UP
- ANG_DEGREE
- BIRDS
- CABPENE_A
- CABPENE_A_1
- CABPENE_A_2
- CABPENE_A_3
- CABPENE_B
- CABPENE_C
- COCKPIT_A
- COCKPIT_B
- COCKPIT_C
- COCKPIT_C_1
- COCKPIT_C_2
- COCKPIT_C_3
- COCKPIT_C_4
- COCKPIT_D
- COCKPIT_D_1
- COCKPIT_E
- COCKPIT_E_1
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 2397-6?
- TECHNICAL REPORT OF US ARMY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT, PART VII - IN-FLIGHT OR TERRAIN IMPACT AND CRASH DAMAGE DATA
- Which edition is current?
- February 2009
- Who is responsible for this form?
- OCSA
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL