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Aug 1, 2014 | 12:18 am

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Originally Posted by Dr. HFH

I get alerts form FlightRadar 24 several times/week that a plane has done this. But the code means "General Emergency." I never see these flights on the news.

Then you're looking at the wrong news! http://www.avherald.com/ is a good place to start to see what really happens around the world. The vast majority of "emergencies" end well and at most end up being reported somewhere like AVHerald or here - not on mainstream news.

Remember, there's around 100,000 scheduled flights per day around the world. "Several" emergencies per week is noise (and probably far fewer 7700's than there actually are).

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