Originally Posted by
sycamore
W-C, if you transmit `Mayday x3`,you should get everybody`s attention..!!
Screaming holy **** I had a midair would also get everyone’s attention.
Feel free to dissect what many of the pedants here believe is a systemic training issue of declaring emergency vs mayday/pan, however on that day, the phraseology that was most common to both the flight crew and the controller was “declaring an emergency”