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  2. Pan-pan - Wikipedia

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    As with "mayday" (from venez m'aider, "come help me"), the urgency signal pan-pan derives from French.In French, a panne is a breakdown, such as a mechanical failure. In English, it is sometimes pronounced as / p ɑː n / PAHN and sometimes as / p æ n / PAN.

  3. Mayday - Wikipedia

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    Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organizations such as firefighters, police forces, and transportation organizations also use the term.

  4. Aviation call signs - Wikipedia

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    Pan Pan (pronounced "pahn-pahn") is the voice radio signal for "urgent", while Mayday is the voice radio signal for "distress". The word may be omitted for air ambulance services with assigned call signs, especially when they have notified air traffic control operators that they are on an air ambulance mission at the beginning of their flight ...

  5. Procedure word - Wikipedia

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    Pan-pan (pronounced / ˈ p æ n ˈ p æ n /) [15] is the official urgency voice call. Meaning "I, my vessel or a person aboard my vessel requires assistance but is not in distress." This overrides all but a mayday call, and is used, as an example, for calling for medical assistance or if the station has no means of propulsion.

  6. Radiotelephony procedure - Wikipedia

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    PAN-PAN PAN-PAN PAN-PAN Urgent situations that are not life-threatening Immediate, unless there is an ongoing Mayday issue. This is considered to be IMMEDIATE precedence traffic. [39] If the condition is medical, use PAN-PAN MEDICAL, PAN-PAN MEDICAL, PAN-PAN MEDICAL. XXX XXX XXX 4: SÉCURITÉ SÉCURITÉ SÉCURITÉ Important safety information

  7. Distress signal - Wikipedia

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    A Mayday message consists of the word "mayday" spoken three times in succession, which is the distress signal, followed by the distress message, which should include: Name of the vessel or ship in distress; Its position (actual, last known, or estimated expressed in lat/long or in distance/bearing from a specific location)

  8. Aeronautical Code signals - Wikipedia

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    The Aeronautical Code signals are radio signal codes. They are part of a larger set of Q Codes allocated by the ITU-R.The QAA–QNZ code range includes phrases applicable primarily to the aeronautical service, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

  9. Glossary of aerospace engineering - Wikipedia

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    is the drag force, which is by definition the force component in the direction of the flow velocity, is the mass density of the fluid, [61] is the flow velocity relative to the object, is the reference area, and