Air emergency
An air emergency is an airborne aircraft emergency that poses serious and imminent danger . The causes or situations in which an emergency exists are not clearly defined in aviation law; it may for example, a medical emergency, fuel shortages, a technical defect, a hijacking , disorientation or visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions ( English VFR into IMC ) are present.
The air emergency is explained by the pilot of the aircraft, in rare cases by air traffic control. As emergency signals usually have to be Flugfunk the emergency MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY on the currently used or the emergency frequency (121.5 MHz , FM discontinued on Morse or other ways the Morse code) SOS the transmitted transponder code 7700 red set, rockets or flares fired or red parachutes used. Any other means may also be used by the pilot to indicate the emergency and announce the location. Such an aircraft receives any support from the ground stations and has priority over all other aircraft.
The air traffic control's flight alarm service alerts the search and rescue service in an emergency . Even without a pilot declaring an air emergency, the flight alarm service proclaims the uncertainty level if a report or the arrival of an aircraft is 30 minutes overdue. If further investigations are inconclusive or if the landing does not take place within five minutes of approval, or if an illegal intervention such as an aircraft hijacking is to be assumed, the readiness level is declared. The emergency level is declared if the investigations during the standby stage were inconclusive , the fuel supply is considered insufficient, a report has been received or there is a likelihood that the aircraft will make an emergency landing.
See also
literature
- SAR manual. Search and rescue services for aircraft. (PDF) In: rcc-muenster.aero. SAR Coordinating Committee, March 2010, accessed February 19, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ ICAO Annex 10, Aeronautical Telecommunications, Volume IV. (PDF) Surveillance Radar and Collision Avoidance Systems. (No longer available online.) In: bazl.admin.ch. International Civil Aviation Organization , July 2007, p. 19 , archived from the original on February 27, 2014 ; accessed on February 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 923/2012 of the Commission of September 26, 2012 laying down common air traffic rules and operating rules for air traffic control services and procedures and amending Implementing Regulation (EC) No. 1035/2011 and Regulations (EC) No. 1265/2007, (EG) No. 1794/2006, (EG) No. 730/2006, (EG) No. 1033/2006 and (EU) No. 255/2010
- ↑ Ordinance on the implementation of air traffic control, FSDurchführungsV § 11
- ↑ Ordinance on the implementation of air traffic control, FSDurchführungsV § 16
