{"id":62650,"date":"2017-05-04T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/?p=62650"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:27:36","slug":"20170504pan-pan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/glossary\/pan-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"PAN PAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term pan pan, besides being known as airplane talk, is\u00a0used in radiotelephone communications to signify that there is an urgency on board a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle. It is referred to when it is a state of urgency, but not when there is an\u00a0immediate danger to a person&#8217;s\u00a0life or to the vessel itself.<\/p>\n<h2>Pan Pan vs. Mayday<\/h2>\n<p>Three calls of\u00a0pan pan\u00a0are\u00a0used to signify an urgent situation that requires\u00a0assistance and\u00a0is usually used when a pilot has become lost, or has experienced a serious aircraft system failure that requires an immediate route or altitude change.<\/p>\n<p>When a pilot utilizes airplane talk and radios out a\u00a0pan pan, it\u00a0informs emergency services, air traffic control, and other aircraft within distance that a safety problem exists. Some scenarios that may warrant a pan pan call are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a fire located on the ground<\/li>\n<li>spotting another aircraft in trouble<\/li>\n<li>if a crewmember or passenger looses consciousness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mayday radio call should be only be used for life threatening situations such as loss, or imminent loss of aircraft control, or an onboard fire.<\/p>\n<p>A mayday informs emergency services and ground and air traffic control to drop all other activities and immediately initiate a rescue attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term pan pan, besides being known as airplane talk, is\u00a0used in radiotelephone communications to signify that there is an urgency on board a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[978],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94061,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62650\/revisions\/94061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}