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Old 11th Aug 2016, 12:25
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Originally Posted by MickG0105
Anyone care to comment on "MAYDAY DECLARED" in the Incident Report. There was no mayday on the ATC tape.
Most likely the reason we can't hear the MAYDAY is either due to the limitations with regards line of sight that the amature's reciever set location used in the uploaded videos etc, or that VHF L TX is located on the underside of the fuselage IIRC, and was probably scraped off.
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