Originally Posted by
morismarina
Wow.. Ref that 777LHR do you have a link, I'd like to look it up thanks.
This
gives a nice recording of the events. "Speedbird 38" was the flight's callsign and the Mayday call was done using "Speedbird 95" as callsign. I was led to believe back in those days, that this was a non-exisiting flightno. often used in the sim sessions.
However, looking things up again 10 years later, I see that info was incorrect and based on his book, the captain in the heat of the moment simply used a wrong callsign (the one from his next flight, it seems). And he was surprised during the investigations, hearing himself doing just that.
Edit: seems I was very slow on the keyboard,
Airbubba already provided a similar answer
As for the A321 mishap, it seems that Mayday is AirTransat SOP for rejects, so my referring to possible training drills/instincts kicking in, is irrelevant...