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Urgent, but nobody is dying.
Also known as: Urgency signal, Pan pan pan
The spoken radio urgency signal, ranking below distress and above routine safety traffic.
Declares an urgent situation concerning the safety of a vessel, aircraft or person that does not require immediate assistance.
Contexts: Public information, Navigation
Exists so that a serious but not life-threatening situation does not have to be reported as a distress, which would trigger a full search and rescue response and tie up the frequency.
Contexts: Public information, Navigation
The word spoken three times at the head of the transmission in place of the distress word, and written in capital letters in a log.
Mayday, pan-pan and sécurité form a three-level scale of radio priority.