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standby. At 0818, the tower informed airline service crew of the same news. Because
the
Taipei Area Control Center delivered the wrong information to the tower as and in
turn, to the aviation service crew, OK area control center misunderstood the request of
the co-pilot.
It was until 0825 that China Airlines (Asian Dispatch
Center) informed the CKS
Airport
aviation services crew it has been confirmed that it was the pilot who lost
consciousness. It was only at that point in time that the CKS aviation service crew and
the airport central control center notified the units to start firefighting and search and
rescue
proceedings. The incapacitation of the pilot and the aircraft having to return to
base poses a very big potential threat. With the transmission of faulty information,
then later to be modified, time needed to prepare and adapt to the situation was
severely reduced.
2.4.2
Announcement of emergency situation
At 0816, the co-pilot found out that the chief pilot was incapacitated and used the
word “Incapacity” in informing airport management personnel. At 0831, because
there were other aircrafts, which
have requested “Priority,” nobody knew that the
aircraft
had an emergency situation until it landed. Based on Chapter 9 Section 9-1-1
of the Aviation Control Procedures, the decision for emergency situations are as
follows:
Emergency situations may be perilous or urgent in nature, the definition of which is
included in the pilot/ control personnel dictionary. (Emergency situation may refer to
perilous or urgent)
b. When a pilot encounters
a perilous situation, he/she should use the word
“MAYDAY” in the initial radio communication
to signify that there is an emergency
situation, ideally repeating it three times. When the situation is urgent, the word to use
is “PAN-PAN,” again following the same process.
c. If neither “MAYDAY” nor “PAN-PAN” is used, but the control personnel suspects
that this situation may turn into something urgent or perilous, he may act accordingly.
The Flight Safety Foundation published the Airport Operation Magazine Vol. 26, No.3
in March-April 2000. Said magazine offers some standard language that aviation
personnel
can use when announcing any emergency situation. (See Appendix 19)
Chapter 14 of China Airlines’ aviation handbook states that radio communication
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