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Navy acronyms list


 AA             Anti-aircraft
 ACB     Accident combat
 ACC     ACCident-unidentified
 ACF             Accident due to Fire
 BACR    Barrier Crash
 BB              Bomb Blast
 BBDF    Bomb Blast Destroyed by Fire
 BD              Battle damage
 BEX             Bailed out due to Explosion
 BLAS    Bailed out-Lost At Sea
 BLS             Blade Strike
 BMAC    Bailed out due to Mid Air Collision
 BMACEF  Bailed out Mid Air Collision due to Engine Failure
 BMACW   Bailed out Mid Air Collison due to Weather
 BO              Bail Out
 BOCR    Bailed Out -CRashed
 BODF    Bailed Out-Destroyed by Fire
 BOEF    Bailed Out-Engine Failure
 BOEFB   Bailed Out Engine Failure due to Bird strike
 BOEFW   Bailed Out Engine Failure due to Weather
 BOEX    Bailed Out due to EXplosion
 BOF     Bailed Out due to Fire
 BOFF    Bailed Out due to Friendly Fire
 BOMAC   Bail Out, Mid Air Collision
 BOMF    Bailed Out due to Mechanical Failure
 BOMFW   Bailed Out due to Mechanical Failure/ Weather
 BOMIS   Bailed Out/Missing In Service
 BOoG    Bailed Out Out of Gas
 BOoGW   Bailed Out Out of Gas due to Weather
 BOSF    Bailed Out due to Structural Failure
 BOSSP   Bailed Out due to Stall/ SPin
 BOW     Bailed Out due to Weather
 BSL      Blade Sail
 C               Crash
 CBL     Crashed Belly Landing
 CBLB    Crash Belly Landed due to Bird strike
 CBLDF   Crash Belly Landing Destroyed by Fire
 CBLEF   Crashed Belly Landing due to Engine Failure or Fire
 CBLEFoG Crash Belly Landing Engine Fail Out of Gas
 CBLEX   Crash Belly Landing due to EXplosion
 CBLF    Crash Belly Landing Fire
 CBLFF   Crashed Belly Landing due to Friendly Fire
 CBLMAC Crash Belly Landing due to Mid Air Collision
 CBLMF   Crash Belly Landing due to Mechanical Failure
 CBLoG   Crash Belly Landing Out of Gas
 CBLoGW Crash Belly Landing out of Gas due to Weather
 CBLSF   Crash Belly Landing due to Struct Failure
 CBLTO   Crash Belly Landing on Take Off
 CBLW    Crashed Belly Landing due to Wether
 CGO     Collision, Ground Obstacle
 CHT     Crash Hovering Test
 CLGC    Crashed Lack of Ground Cushion
 CLRRPM  Crashed Low Rotor RPM
 CLWS    Crash Landing Wire Strike
 CMRF    Crashed Main Rotor Failure
 CPARL   Crashed Practicing Auto Rotation Landing
 CR              CRash [of unknown type]
 CRDF    CRashed Destroyed by Fire
 CREF    CRashed due to Engine Failure
 CREFTO  Crashed due to Engine Failure on Take Off
 CREFW   Crashed due to Engine Failure due to Weather
 CREX    Crashed due to Explosion
 CREXBB  CRashed due to EXplosion due to Bomb Blast
 CRF     CRashed due to Fire
 CRFF    Crashed due to Friendly Fire
 CRGC    CRash Ground Collision- where pilot flew plane into water, ground or mtn, not due to stall/ spin,
 CRL        CRash Landing- fire, structural failure, mid air collision, engine failure, etc    aka CFIT
 CRLDF   CRash Landing Destroyed by Fire
 CRLEF   CRash Landing Engine Failure
 CRLEX   CRash Landing EXploded on ground
 CRLFF   CRash Landing due to Friendly Fire
 CRLMF   CRash Landing Mechanical Failure
 CRLOC   Crashed loss of control
 CRLoG   CRash Landing Out of Gas
 CRLoGW Crash Landing out of Gas due to Weather
 CRLSF   CRash Landing Struactural Failure
 CRLTO   Crash Landing on Take Off
 CRLW    CRash Landing Weather
 CRMF    CRash due to Mechanical Failure
 CRoG    CRashed Out of Gas
 CRoGW   CRash Landing Out of Gas Weather
 CRSF    CRashed due to Structural Failure
 CRT     CRashed on Take off- when an aircraft cleared the Base perimeter
 CRTDF   CRashed on Take off, Destroyed by Fire
         (was airborne for some distance before coming down. See TOA)
 CRTEF   CRashed on Take off Engine Failure
 CRTEX   CRashed on Take off Explosion
 CRTF    CRashed on Take off due to Fire
 CRTMF   CRashed on Take off Mechanical Failure
 CRToG   Crashed on Takeoff out of Gas
 CRTW    CRashed on Take off Weather
 CRU     Crash of undetermined cause
 CRW     CRashed due to Weather conditions
 CTRF    Crashed Tail Rotor Failure
 CTRS    Crashed Tail Rotor Strike
 DECR    Deck Crash
 DF              Destroyed by Fire on ground
 DFEF    Destroyed by Fire due to Engine Fire
 DMAC    Destroyed due to Mid Air Collision
 DTC     Ditched
 DTCEF   Ditched due to Engine Failure
 DTCFF   Ditched due to Friendly Fire
 DTCMF   Ditched due to Mechanical Failure
 DTCoG   Ditched Out of Gas
 DTCW    Ditched due to weather
 DTRF    Ditched Tail Rotor Failure
 EA              Enemy action
 EAA             Enemy anti-aircraft
 EF              Engine Failure or Engine Fire
 EFDF    Engine Failure Destroyed by Fire
 EFF             Engine Failure & Fire
 EMS     Enemy strafing
 EX              EXplosion
 EXCR    EXplosion & CRash
 EXDF    EXplosion Destroyed by Fire
 F               Fire [used as a suffix]
 F               Fire
 FDWL    Fuselage Damaged While Landing
 FF              Friendly Fire [shoot down]
 FKMF    Fire Killed due to Mechanical Failure
 FL              Forced Landing
 FLAC    Forced Landing ACcident
 FLBS    Forced Landing Bird Strike
 FLDF    Forced Landing Destroyed by Fire
 FLEF    Forced Landing due to Engine Failure
 FLEFDF  Forced Landing due to Engine Failure, Destroyed by Fire
 FLEFF   Forced Landing [repeat of FLEF ?]
 FLEFW   Forced Landing due to Engine Failure by Weather
 FLEX    Forced Landing EXplosion in air
 FLF             Forced Landing due to Fire in air
 FLL             Forced Landing Lost
 FLMAC   Forced Landing due to Mid Air Collision
 FLMF    Forced Landing Mechanical Failure
 FLMFoG  Forced Landing Mechanical Failure/ Out of Gas
 FLoG    Forced Landing Out of Gas
 FLoGW   Forced Landing Out of Gas/Weather
 FLSF    Forced Landing Structural Failure
 FLW     Forced Landing due to Weather
 GAC     Ground ACcident
 GACBB   Ground Accident due to Bomb Blast
 GACDF   Ground ACcident, Destroyed by Fire
 GACEF   Ground ACcident due to Engine Failure
 GACEXF  Ground ACcident, Explosion & Fire
 GACF    Ground ACcident Fire
 GACFF   Ground ACcident due to Friendly Fire
 GACMF   Ground Accident due to Mechanical Failure
 GACW    Ground Accident Weather
 GACX    Ground ACcident due to eXplosion
 GDF     Ground accident Destroyed by Fire
 GEF             Ground accident caused by Engine Failure
 GEX     Ground accident caused by EXplosion
 GEXDF   Ground accident caused by Explosion Destroyed by Fire
 GEXF    Ground Explosion and Fire
 GF              Ground Accident Fire
 GL              Ground Looped
 GLDF    Ground Loop Destroy by Fire
 GLEF    Ground Loop due to Engine Failure
 GLEFTO  Ground Looped due to Engine Failure on Take Off
 GLEFX   Ground Looped due to Engine Failure, eXplosion
 GLF             Ground Loop due to Fire
 GLMF    Ground Loop Mechanical Failure
 GLTO    Ground Looped on Take Off
 GLTOA   Ground Looped on Take Off Accident
 GLW     Ground Looped due to Weather
 GLX             Ground Looped due to Explosion
 GMAC    Ground Collision
 GMACTO Ground Mid Air Collision on Take Off
 GMF     Ground accident due to Mechanical failure
 GR              Ground Resonance
 GyACC   Gunnery ACCident
 INT             INTerned
 KBMAC   Killed Bailing out due to Mid Air Collsion
 KBO     Killed, Bail Out
 KBOEF   Killed, Bail Out due to Engine Failure
 KBOF    Killed while Bailing Out due to Fire
 KBOMAC  [same as above]
 KBOoG   Killed, Bail Out out of Gas
 KBOSF   Killed while Bailing Out due to Structural Failure
 KCBL    Killed, Crash Belly Landing
 KCBLEF  Killed, Crash Belly Landing Engine Failure
 KCR     Killed in a CRash
 KCRBB   Killed in a CRash due to Bomb Blast
 KCRDF   Killed in a CRash Destroyed by Fire
 KCREF   Killed in CRash due to Engine Failure
 KCREX   Killed in CRash due to EXplosion
 KCRF    Killed in CRash due to onboard Fire
 KCRFF   Killed in a Crash, Friendly Fire [shoot down]
 KCRGC   Killed in Crash Ground Collision, see note on CRGC
 KCRL    Killed in CRash Landing
 KCRLDF  Killed in Crash Landing Destroyed by Fire
 KCRLEF  Killed in CRash Landing Engine Failure
 KCRLF   Killed in CRash Landing due to Fire
 KCRLog  Killed in CRash Landing out of Gas
 KCRLW   Killed in CRash Landing due to Weather
 KCRMF   Killed in CRash Mechanical Failure
 KCRMR   Killed in a CRash due to Mechanical or Material Failure
 KCRog   Killed in CRash out of Gas
 KCRSF   Killed in a CRash due to structural failure
 KCRT    Killed, CRashed on Take off
 KCRTDF  Killed in Crash on Take Off Destroyed by Fire
 KCRTEF  Killed CRash on Take off Eng Failure
 KCRTEX  Killed CRash on Take off EXplosion
 KCRTMF  Killed, CRashed on Take off Mechanical Failure
 KCRTX   Killed CRash on Take off EXplosion
 KCRW    Killed in a CRash due to Weather
 KCRX    Killed in CRash due to eXplosion
 KDEF    Killed-Destroyed due to Engine Failure
 KDF             Killed aircraft Destroyed by Fire
 KDFF    Killed Destroyed by Friendly Fire
 KDTC    Killed in Ditching the aircraft
 KDTCFF  Killed while Ditching due to Friendly Fire
 KEF             Killed due to Engine Failure
 KEFW    Killed due to Engine Failure/Weather
 KEX             Killed due to EXplosion
 KEXFF   Killed EXplosion due to Friendly Fire
 KEXMF   Killed due to Explosion due to Mechanical Failure
 KEXSF   Killed EXplosion due to Struct Failure
 KFCR    Killed due to in air Fire-Crashed
 KFL             Killed in a Forced Landing
 KFLEF   Killed in a Foreced Landing Engine Failure
 KFLEX   Killed in a Forced Landing EXplosion
 KFLoG   Killed in a Forced Landing out of Gas
 KGAC    Killed, Ground ACcident
 KGEX    Killed in Ground Explosion
 KLAC    Killed, Landing ACcident
 KLACEF  Killed in a Landing Accidnet due to Engine Failure
 KLACoG  Killed in a Landing Accident out of Gas
 KLAS    Killed, Lost At Sea
 KLEX    Killed, Lost due to EXplosion
 KMAC    Killed, Mid Air Collision
 KMACB   Killed due to a Mid Air Collision with a Bird
 KMACTO Killed, Mid Air Collision on Take Off
 KMAX    Killed Mid Air Explosion
 KMF     Killed, Mechanical Failure
 KMFDF   Killed due to Mechancial Failure-Destroyed by Fire
 KMIS    Killed in a MISsing aircraft
 KPARL   Killed Practising Auto Rotation Landings
 KSD     Killed due to Structural Damage
 KSF             Killed due to Structural Failure
 KSFEX   Killed due to Structural Fail cause EXplosion
 KSR     Killed [look the Accident up]
 KSSP    Killed, Stall / SPin
 KTAC    Killed in a Taxiing ACcident
 KTACW   Killed due to a Taxiing Accident caused by Weather
 KTOA    Killed in a Take Off Accident
 KTOADF  Killed in a Take Off Accident-Destroyed by Fire
 KTOAEF  Killed in Take Off Accident due to Engine Failure
 KTOAX   Killed in a Take Off Accident due to Explosion
 KXCR    Killed due to eXplosion and CRash
 LAC             Landing ACcident
 LACC    Launch accident
 LACDF   Landing ACcident Destroyed by Fire
 LACEF   Landing ACcident due to Engine Failure
 LACEX   Landing Accident Explosion
 LACF    Landing ACcident due to Fire
 LACGC   Landing Accident Ground Collision
 LACGL   Landing ACcident causing a Ground Loop
 LACLL   Landing ACcident Landed Long
 LACLS   Landing ACcident Landed Short
 LACMF   Landing ACcident due to Mechanical Fail
 LACoG   Landing ACcident out of Gas
 LACSF   Landing ACcident due to Structural Failure
 LACW    Landing ACcident due to Weather
 LACWL   Landing accident water looped
 LAS             Lost At Sea
 LASEF   Lost At Sea due to Engine Failure
 LCRF    Lost-CRash due to Fire
 LCRL    Lost-CRash Landing
 MAC     Mid Air Collision
 MACB    Mid Air Collision with Bird
 MACBL   Mid Air Collision with resulting Belly Landing
 MACBZ   Mid Air Collision Buzzing
 MACCBL Mid Air Collision with resulting Belly Landing
 MACCR   Mid-Air Collision causing a CRash
 MACCRL Mid Air Collision with resulting Crash Landing
 MACEF   Mid Air Collision due to Engine Failure
 MACL    Mid Air Collision with resulting Crash Landing
 MACRL   Mid-Air Collision causing a cRash Landing
 MACT    Mid Air Collision with tow Target
 MACTO   Mid-Air Collision during Take Off
 MACW    Mid-Air Collision due to Weather
 MAF     Mid Air Fire
 MCRL    Mid-Air Collision causing a CRash Landing
 MDTC    Missing Ditched
 MEA     Missing enemy action
 MEC     Mechanical
 MF              Mechanical Failure
 MFDF    Mechanical Failure Destroyed by Fire
 MFEF    Mechanical Failure due to Engine Fire
 MFF     Missing due to Friendly Fire
 MFFF    Mechanical Failure due to Friendly Fire
 MFL     MIA flak
 MFW     Mechanical Failure due to Weather
 MIS             Missing In Service [often a MACR]
 MISEA   Missing Enemy Action
 MISEF   Missing In Service Engine Failure
 MISFF   MISsing due to Friendly Fire
 MISoG   Missing out of Gas
 MISW    Missing due to Weather
 MLAC    [look this one up]
 MMAC    Missing due to a Mid air Collision
 NBD     Non Battle Damage
 NBF     Non Battle Fire
 PE              Pilot Error
 PI              Personal Injury
 SF              Structural Failure
 SFDF    Structural Failure, Destroyed by Fire
 SFEF    Structural Failure due to Engine Fire
 SFW     Structural Failure due to Weather conditions
 SSP             Stall /SPin
 SWO     Spin Wave-off
 TAC             Taxiing ACcident
 TACDF   Taxiing ACcident later Destroyed by Fire
 TACEF   Taxiing ACcident due to Engine Failure
 TACF    Taxiing ACcident Fire
 TACGC   Taxiing Accident Ground Collision
 TACGL   Taxiing Accident causing a Ground Loop
 TACMF   Taxiing ACcident due to Mechanical Fail
 TACSF   Taxiing ACcident due to Structural Failure
 TACTO   Taxiing Accident during Take Off
 TACW    Taziing Accident due to Weather
 TACX    Taxi Accident resulting in Explosion
 TOA     Take Off Accident, generally means that the a/c did not leave the ground
 TOACBL  Take Off Accident resulting in Crash Belly Landing
 TOADF   Take Off Accident Destroyed by Fire
 TOAEF   Take Off Accident due to Engine Failure (the a/c got into the air)
 TOAEX   Take Off Accident, EXplosion
 TOAF    Take Off Accident due to Fire
 TOAFX   Take Off Accident, Fire and eXplosion
 TOAGL   Take-Off Accident Ground Looped. The a/c didn't leave the confines of the Air Base.
 TOAMF   Take Off Accident due to Mechanical Failure
 TOASF   Take Off Accident Structural Failure
 TOASSP  Take Off Accident Stall /SPin
 TOAW    Take Off Accident Weather
 TOAWL   Take-off accident water looped
 TOAX    Take Off Accident due to eXplosion
 TOMAC   Take Off Mid Air Coll
 TRF             Tail Rotor Failure
 TRS             Tail Rotor Strike
 W               Weather related accident
 WAC     Weather related Accident
 WO      Wave-Off

 

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