If distress, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAY-DAY; if urgency, PAN-PAN, PAN-PAN, PAN-PAN.
When pilots realize that their plane is going down, they'll immediately get on the radio and say Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This will clear the radio of traffic and clutter and allow them to call in their emergency.
PED – Descent
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have begun our descent into [city]. Please turn off all portable electronic devices and stow them until we have arrived at the gate. In preparation for landing in [city], be certain your seat back is straight up and your seat belt is fastened.
"If we get some wind going, we're goners,” the pilot told 911 dispatchers in a phone call. He and passenger were rescued.
-The term “welcome aboard” is often said by the flight crew to greet passengers when they first board the aircraft. The captain may also say this at the end of the announcement such as “once again, welcome aboard.”
The hijackers inside the cockpit are heard yelling "No!" over the sound of breaking glass. The final spoken words on the recorder were a calm voice in English instructing, "Pull it up." The plane then crashed into an empty field in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania, about 20 minutes' flying time from Washington, D.C.
11, when hijacked Flight 93 crashed into Shanksville, Pa. The words, “Let's Roll” were Todd Beamer's last words before he and other passengers rushed the cockpit to thwart the terrorists' plans.
3. What does the pilot say to Jake? “Welcome aboard.”
Pilot – “If the passengers on the right will look to their left, they will have the perfect view of the passengers on the left.”
Affirm: Contrary to popular belief, pilots do not say “affirmative” when they mean yes – the correct term is affirm, pronounced “AY-firm.”
We can use 'welcome aboard' when someone has recently arrived on a plane, train, boat or another mode of transport. Usually, the air hostess, stewards, cabin crew, pilot or conductor will welcome passengers aboard. However, this phrase has since evolved and we can use it in more contexts than that of its origin.
'MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY'
“We are returning back, sir, we have lost two engines,” the pilot said, according to an English transcript.
Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration ("Mayday mayday mayday") to prevent it being mistaken for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual mayday call from a message about a mayday call.
“Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!” That's the most horrifying and haunting last words I heard in a plane crash recording.
Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard has the inscription "Lets Roll" on the back of his goalie helmet in reference to Flight 93.
On June 21, 2018 - all recovered wreckage from the aircraft was transported via shipping containers to the crash site, to where it was buried in a private ceremony for the first responders to the crash, as well as families of the passengers and crew.
Miller said that only 8 percent of the human remains were ever recovered because the plane, roaring down at more than 570 miles per hour, exploded when it crashed. “Everything vaporized on impact,” he said.
Thirty-five of these calls were made on the Airfones located on the back of the seats in the last nine rows of the plane. Credit card records reveal the time of the call, Airfone caller's name, the number or numbers dialed, the duration of the call, and the row from which the call was placed.
Okay. Let's roll." These were the last words spoken by Beamer heard by Lisa Jefferson. According to the 9/11 Commission Report, after the plane's voice data recorder was recovered, it revealed pounding and crashing sounds against the cockpit door and shouts and screams in English. "Let's get them!" a passenger cries.
The passengers and crew were forced to the back of the plane and told to be quiet. Using airfones, passengers and crew began making calls to report the hijacking. They soon learned the shocking news about the other hijacked planes and quickly realized that Flight 93 was part of a larger attack on America.
If distress, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAY-DAY; if urgency, PAN-PAN, PAN-PAN, PAN-PAN.
This beautiful black proof coin is called Blue Skies. Named after the wish “Blue Skies and Tailwinds” that all pilots give each other blessing them with safe travels as they navigate where the birds fly.
Wake turbulence poses a major risk to other aircraft, so pilots and ATC use the term “heavy” in radio transmissions as a reminder that the aircraft's wake may be dangerous to others passing behind or below the flightpath of these larger-mass aircraft.