OPERATIONS MANUAL AI – OPS - 001

PART - A Chapter 5
RADIO LISTENING WATCH Issue 3 Rev 0 01Jul2013
List of conditions in which MAYDAY & PANPAN call should be
made:
MAY DAY PAN PAN
Electric Emergency
Configuration
Uncontrolled / Undetected Landing with slats/ flaps/
Smoke /Fire rudder/stabilizer jammed
Dual Hydraulic Failure Landing with abnormal landing gear
Unreliable air speed Engine tail pipe fire
Uncontrolled Fuel leak Tail Strike
Engine Failure/ Fire Uncontrolled high engine vibration
Emergency decent In-flight medical emergency
Ditching
Forced landing
Emergency evacuation
Bomb on board
Volcanic ash encounter
Hijack
Fuel emergency

5.5 RADIOTELEPHONY DISTRESS COMMUNICATIONS

A) ACTION BY THE AIRCRAFT IN DISTRESS

In addition to being preceded by the radiotelephony distress
signal MAYDAY, preferably spoken three times, the distress
message to be sent by an aircraft in distress shall :

a) be on the air-ground frequency in use at the time:

b) consist of as many as possible of the following elements
spoken distinctly and, if possible, in the following order:
i) name of the station addressed (time and
circumstances permitting);
ii) the identification of the aircraft;
iii) the nature of the distress condition;
iv) intention of the person in command;
v) present position, level (i.e. flight level, altitude, etc.
as appropriate) and heading.

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