Transcribed report

                    Memorandum
                                                   10/7/42

The Chief Instructor.
No. 4 S.F.T.S.
Saskatoon, Sask.

Report on Aircraft FJ214 (Abandoned)

1.                At 1810 hours on Wednesday, July 9, 1942
P/O Small and I NZ416194 L.A.C. Burrowes E.F.G. took
off in Crane 1A aircraft No. FJ214 for dual instruction on
a new type. Mr. Small demonstrated a circuit to me and I then
did a circuit. We took off again and climbed out of the circuit
and Mr Small demonstrated S.E. flying and then I did same.
About 1850 hours we were ? near? ? and Mr Small 
told me to head back for the aerodrome. We were flying at about
4000 ft. and ran into some alto-stratus clouds and Mr Small
told me to let down at 120 m.p.h. 500' per min. I reduced speed
to 120 m.p.h. but the V.S.I  showed we were climbing and when I
had fully closed the throttles and used the ? of the plane
down we were ascending at a rate of 1000' per min. The A/C.
was then getting out of control and Mr Small took over from me.
I realized we had run into a cumulus nimbus cloud.

2.               Mr. Small endeavoured to get the plane steady
and tried to get out of the cloud but the plane was still out of
control. He ordered me to "jump" but when I first tried to get 
out of my seat I found I was being held down. I managed to get
out, a second or so after by putting my heels on the front of 
the seat and forcing myself up so that the "chute" was resting on
top of the seat and by swivelling around and using my hand?
I was able to get into the back of the cabin. Mr Small had told
me when I first started leaving? that he would release the door and
he did so. I saw the front of the door move into the airflow
and it was blown backwards but did not strike the tail-plane.
I started to climb out the doorway but the airflow buffeted? me
and I was flung into the far side of the ? and could not move
for minute? or two. I reached the doorway again and managed? 
to put one foot on the wing and after ? ?  to put the
other one on the doorstep. I was ? with my ? in the doorway
and facing the front of the aircraft and just before the A/C.
lurched and I was flung out backwards I noticed the altimeter
was reading 6000 feet and the V.S.I. was reading just on 2000? ft
per min. I think the controls were locked at the time I left the
A/C. I started tumbling and grabbed my ankles and started to 
pull my legs apart. I then dropped straight down feet first.
I had all my faculties all the time during the descent but did
not count while I was in the free fall but waited until I thought
I'd be well clear of the A/C and near the base of the cloud. I
pulled the rip-cord when I had reached the base of the cloud,
and did not feel any shock when the chute opened. Mr Small was
falling within shouting distance and asked me if I was O.K. About
half way down I noticed I was drifting fairly fast and also 
swaying. I reached up and spilled the "chute" and fell straight 
down for a while. When I was about 500-700 feet above the ground
I was swaying again and also drifting badly but could not find
the strap to spill the chute. About 50 feet up the chute spilled
and I dropped straight down I turned the quick release box about
20-30 feet up and as soon as I landed I hit the bar? and the chute
was immediately released. I fell on my feet but must have hit my
face on my right knee. There was a track through the field where
I landed and I went down this until I came to a road leading to 
a house. I met Mr Small walking down this road and just after
I met him a man came down the road and gave us a ride. We put 
our chutes in the back of the car and eventually ? Osler and
came back by plane to Saskatoon Aerodrome. The time I abandoned 
the A/C was approximately 1900 hours and the position was 
somewhere near Warman.

                                      LAC Burrowes E.F.G.