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Old February 23rd 07, 08:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Robert Chambers
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Default ATC Handling of Low-Fuel American Flight

Doesn't matter what he was squawking.. he was on a discrete squawk
anyway so they knew who he was. He declared an emergency, that's all it
takes to get anything you need to meet your situation.

Mitty wrote:
On 2/23/2007 9:01 AM, Robert Chambers wrote the following:

I gotta wonder if the approach controller told the local controller
that there was an emergency declared, it didn't appear on the video
but my have been edited out.


and what was AA squawking? A 7700 should have made sure everyone knew.