10,000 hours - one Mayday. Fuel icing due
to contaminated gas just north of Porto
Santo. ATC took several minutes to react to
a distress call and were not particuarly helpful - it was some years ago. Since then
I am always made a mental note to put out a
MAYDAY call or as the colonials would say
'declare an emergency'. If I then wish to
downgrade the situation to a lesser state I
will do so.
Perhaps those fine chaps in ATC could confirm
how widely accepted around the world is the
call of PAN ?