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Listening to the audio, the pilot first says, "We've experienced an engine failure, need a turn." ATC does not respond, so he calls again and says "Mayday" in
by lisper 6y ago
Listening to the audio, the pilot first says, "We've experienced an engine failure, need a turn." ATC does not respond, so he calls again and says "Mayday" in order to unequivocally get their attention.
There are actually two different emergency calls. There is "mayday", and there is "pan-pan", which is a less urgent version of "mayday", but that is hardly ever used.
- kps 6y ago‘Panne’ is French for ‘breakdown’. (Like ‘m'aider’ is French for ‘help me’.)
- hugh-avherald 6y agoPAN-PAN is used more often than you might think, at least outside the US. In particular, any medical emergency would be a PAN-PAN. Here's an interesting example where two aircraft had declared PAN-PAN for quite different reasons, while coming into Sydney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfidHywKmZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfidHywKmZI
- donarb 6y agoPan-pan is used for maritime distress calls when a ship is sinking.