Other Urgent Calls
Mayday is one of a number of words used internationally as radio code words to signal important information. Senders of urgency calls are entitled to interrupt messages of lower priority. As with Mayday the use of these terms without proper cause could render the user liable to civil and/or criminal charges.
Each of these urgency calls is usually spoken three times; e.g., "Pan-pan, Pan-pan, Pan-pan."
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