I had an ASAC who used to use "Charles" or "Charlie" as often as he used "Roger" when we ran ASW problems. He was very old school in a lot of his radio comms, interesting to see the origin of the Charlie call.
I do not care for the media referring to a
precautionary landing as an
emergency landing.
But I guess it can't be helped.
For any members of the press reading this ...
Pan pan calls are for "a problem has come up, I need to land due to a malfunction" whereas "an emergency" or "In distress" call is identified by saying "mayday." Well, that's how we used to teach it. Panpan vs Mayday.
Looks to me that the crew
correctly used panpan for their call to ATC.
Tip of the cap to the crew.
