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1st Oct 2017, 21:10

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Originally Posted by fgrieu

In that nice VASAviation audio/video about the incident, we hear the (obviously french) pilot calling as "AF066 super mayday" and the ATC using "AF066 heavy mayday". Is there a standard meaning for these "super" and "heavy" ?

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