Definitions
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- interjection minor
emergency requiring someassistance , not life-threatening - noun aviation, shipping a minor
emergency requiring someassistance or priority in handling, but notendangering the safety of thevessel or those aboard.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sailors and pilots also use "pan-pan," from the word panne (breakdown), to indicate an imminent threat.
ASK TIP SHEET 2007
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Once, she'd declared a "pan-pan" — indicating an urgency situation — when an unfortunate flock of pelicans decided to commit suicide in her number two engine and clog up her pitot tube to boot.
The Coffin Dancer Deaver, Jeffery 1998
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If you have to eat at caesars get a pan-pan, or any of the square pizzas, at least then the crust is really good.
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About halfway through an air show flight display, Stock issued the "pan-pan" emergency call, indicating an urgent problem that falls short of posing an immediate danger to the aircraft, the report says.
HEADLINES 2009
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If you have to eat at caesars get a pan-pan, or any of the square pizzas, at least then the crust is really good.
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A great description of the social landscape at that time is in John Dower’s superb Embracing Defeat, especially the first section where he takes you right to the streets of postwar Tokyo so that you can smell the cheap kasutori liquor and see the pan-pan girls hanging onto U.S. servicemen.
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A great description of the social landscape at that time is in John Dower’s superb Embracing Defeat, especially the first section where he takes you right to the streets of postwar Tokyo so that you can smell the cheap kasutori liquor and see the pan-pan girls hanging onto U.S. servicemen.
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A great description of the social landscape at that time is in John Dower’s superb Embracing Defeat, especially the first section where he takes you right to the streets of postwar Tokyo so that you can smell the cheap kasutori liquor and see the pan-pan girls hanging onto U.S. servicemen.
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In the court of frivolity all was fashion—the day’s way of speaking, the day’s repartee or song, the day’s games of pan-pan.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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In the court of frivolity all was fashion—the day’s way of speaking, the day’s repartee or song, the day’s games of pan-pan.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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