When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pan-pan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-pan

    The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they need help and that the situation is urgent, [1] [2] [3] but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself. [4]

  3. Mayday - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday

    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. Procedure word - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_word

    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.

  5. Passenger plane forced to abort landing at DC airport the day ...

    www.aol.com/passenger-plane-forced-abort-landing...

    The crew "initiated a go-around at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in response to an onboard alert that a military helicopter was nearby," a Federal Aviation Administration told USA ...

  6. Aviation call signs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_call_signs

    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 ...

  7. Miami’s aviation history began in this Pan Am hangar. County ...

    www.aol.com/miami-aviation-history-began-pan...

    The county aviation department’s deputy director, Basil Binns II, told the board that MIA officials “appreciate the historic nature of the building” but added that the airport’s needs for ...

  8. List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation,_avionics...

    Aviation weather briefing service [6] Available at designated FSS's AWG American Wire Gage: The larger the size number, the smaller the wire diameter. AWIS Aviation weather information service [6] Available at FSS: AWO All weather operations AWOS Automated weather observation system [6] Automated METAR reporting system AWWS Aviation weather web ...

  9. 7 dead, including 1 on ground, after a medevac jet with a ...

    www.aol.com/news/medevac-jet-6-people-board...

    Gov. Shapiro said that while Friday’s incident was “an awful aviation disaster,” it shows the unified response of local, state and federal officials. “We saw neighbor helping neighbor ...