VLR Claims

[RCheung]

Originally Posted by JoeB

損失：雷電６機［被墜３／離陸時１／大破１／炎上２］　零戦１機［大破］
"loss: Raiden 6 machine [downed 3/ when taking off 1/ wrecked* 1, destruction by fire 2] Zero-sen 1 machine [wrecked]"

*babelfish translates 'wreck' to 大破 giving 'ruin' in the other direction for Japanese. Those Chinese characters are literally 'great destruction', but same word in Korean also means wreck, as in say a ship washed ashore or a totalled car. I'm rendering it 'write off', just keep in mind it may have had some slightly different precise meaning in JNAF terminology.

Joe

JNAF

大破 major damage ...
中破 moderate damage
小破 light damage

[JoeB]

Originally Posted by RCheung

JNAF

大破 major damage ...
中破 moderate damage
小破 light damage

I've thought in past the English term 'major damage' in translated accounts of JNAF reports might correspond to 大破. But I wonder how correct that is, given that it's apparently also a normal word in Japanese meaning wreck or ruin. Anyway aside from pure translation issue is there evidence either way what it really meant, in terms of say how likely a 大破'ed plane was to return to service?

Joe