A distress call in a notorious stretch of water triggered an urgent search and rescue operation in Wellington waters in ...

Pilots use Pan-Pan in various scenarios where a safety concern exists, but they still have control of the aircraft and time ...

To make sure their distress signal is understood and not confused with other transmissions, pilots say "Mayday" three times. This practice dates back to the early days of radio, when single calls ...

The crew of the tanker had issued an open-frequency radio distress call reporting a "drone attack," though they were actually ...

A single mechanical failure or mistake isn’t what usually results in a “Mayday!” call on marine VHF radio. Compound failures or mistakes typically cause potentially disastrous situations for even ...