Guard (121.5) police get it wrong
Flying around Europe we get used to pilots using 121.5 for wrongly contacting handling, chatting to other company etc and invariably a split second later an American voice shouts " You're on guard ".
However last Thursday crossing northern Germany D-**TP transmitted a Mayday with with undercarriage problem.
A discussion with controller ensued and then all of a sudden the usual American voice shouts " You're on guard ".
We were surprised at this but the controller said quick as a flash " shut up this is a genuine emergency".
We monitored this for another twenty minutes or so and astonishingly several more American voices were heard to say the same thing.
Eventually the controller told everybody to be quiet.
We descended and missed the outcome but hope that the crew and D-**TP had a succesful resolution to their emergency.