Originally Posted by
FIRESYSOK
Alright, this is quite wrong on a few levels. Any communication of emergency status are for ATC assistance and the fire services, if needed. (Perhaps they had a flight control or other problem they couldn’t diagnose or understand immediately.) They would be saturated with keeping the thing flying and not worried about efficeint syntaxes.
There would have been virtually no thought given to a potential NTSB investigation, nor the immediate gratification demanded by casual observers or unscrupulous media. None, whatsoever. The NTSB can and will get to the bottom in due time and have done so with much less information.
You really missed my point didn’t you?
A statement is made.
A response is required.
The appropriate response requires information.
Thats simply how communication works.
ATC needs to respond.
To what?
A medical emergency from one of the passengers? Ambulance required,
A technical problem that requires return but no assistance?
A technical problem that requires return and special handling like the longest runway in case of brake failure of flap malfunction?
A technical problem that has the potential to turn into a dire emergency?! Requires priority handling, all first responders in crash positions, all other traffic diverted etc etc etc.
How can you claim that THAT is not appropriate?