Thanks David. The general message remains though; it isn’t just Americans that wreck Catalinas!

Point taken Meddle but, without in any way wishing to score points, I would contend that they certainly have monopolised, albeit they have had more scope through numbers!

Excluding commercial losses (e.g. water bombing accidents) the Confederate Air Force (as was) alone has lost four – one to a completely avoidable fatal accident (N16KL), one to a mechanical fatal accident (N15KL), one to utter neglect (N68756) and one to weather related ground damage (N7179Y) that although ultimately repairable will have consumed a fifth airframe (N324FA) in the process of restoration when eventually finished. Another, privately owned aircraft (C-FSAT) was lost in the USA after a precautionary landing on water off Hawaii and in a crane recovery manner very similar to what appears to have happened to N85U the other day.