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  2. Pan-pan - Wikipedia

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    Pan-pan calls may be made on the aircraft emergency frequency, but they are more often made on the frequency already in use, or another appropriate frequency. ICAO Annex 10, Volume V, § 4.1.3.1.1 states "the emergency channel (121.5 MHz) shall be used only for genuine emergency purposes". However, ICAO member states can deviate from this rule.

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

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    The facts were not in dispute: The oldest standing building at Miami International Airport, a 1929 hangar built by visionary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe, played a singular role in ...

  7. Aircraft emergency frequency - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft emergency frequency (also known in the USA as Guard) is a frequency used on the aircraft band reserved for emergency communications for aircraft in distress.The frequencies are 121.5 MHz for civilian, also known as International Air Distress (IAD), International Aeronautical Emergency Frequency, [1] or VHF Guard, [1] and 243.0 MHz—the second harmonic of VHF guard—for military ...

  8. List of airline codes (P) - Wikipedia

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    Pan African Air Services PANAFRICAN Sierra Leone ODM Pan African Airways: Kenya PAX Pan Air: PANNEX United States XPA Pan Am Weather Systems: United States 7N PWD PAWA Dominicana: Dominican Republic PN Pan American Airways: United States defunct PA PAA Pan American Airways: United States defunct PA PAA Pan American World Airways: CLIPPER United ...

  9. Mayday (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Mayday feature, a prominent feature of Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX device Mayday PAC , a crowd-funded, political action committee (PAC) in the United States Mayday Rescue Foundation whose chief activity was running the White Helmets organization