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Communication

4.12.1.2 Transponder setting

If there is a transponder in the aircraft, the 7700 squawks mode A to indicate
an emergency. If a squawk code has been assigned, this code is retained.

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4.12.2 Urgency messages

Urgency messages are sent by an aircraft in connection with a situation that

concerns the safety of an aircraft or other vehicles or vessels or persons on

board or in sight, but which does not require immediate assistance.

Urgency signals/Urgency messages have priority over all other messages,

except distress messages.
An urgency message:

- is preceded by PAN PAN, if possible, pronounced three times.

- then it is structured as a distress message.

4.12.2.1 Phraseology in the event of an engine failure

Below is a short story about phraseology in the event of an engine failure.

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