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Old 5th Feb 2019, 06:09
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Originally Posted by G-CPTN
Why no MAYDAY?
Even a single pilot would have had a hand free for a call?
Things were obviously not 'OK'.
When you find yourself suddenly in the sh*t at 2000ft , communicate is not the first thing that comes to your mind, and would have not helped them much either in this case , switching on manually the ELT would have...
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