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[John Heaton]

Qantas flight lands safely after mayday call over Pacific Ocean | Watch (msn.com)

[craigeaglefire]

excellent aircrew procedures ending in a wonderful result!

[pilot100]

Unusual though, normally a single engine failure would be a PAN call, Mayday is for dire life threatening issues. As most (all)  twin engine passenger jets can fly with a single engine then although the issue is serious it was not a Mayday - unless of course there were other issues. No doubt this will all come out in due course. As you say a wonderful result whatever the semantics.

[wolfko]

8 hours ago, pilot100 said:

Unusual though, normally a single engine failure would be a PAN call, Mayday is for dire life threatening issues. As most (all)  twin engine passenger jets can fly with a single engine then although the issue is serious it was not a Mayday - unless of course there were other issues. No doubt this will all come out in due course. As you say a wonderful result whatever the semantics.

 

According to officials the captain altered the Maday into a PAN shortly after.

[Gstove]

On 1/19/2023 at 2:25 AM, pilot100 said:

Unusual though, normally a single engine failure would be a PAN call, Mayday is for dire life threatening issues. As most (all)  twin engine passenger jets can fly with a single engine then although the issue is serious it was not a Mayday - unless of course there were other issues. No doubt this will all come out in due course. As you say a wonderful result whatever the semantics.

Normally it would be a mayday initially to get attention and let everyone know what’s going on and then downgrade to a pan if it’s all under control. Some countries don’t really recognise a pan.