Medical emergency on board. PAN-PAN. American Boeing 777 returns to New York. Real ATC

THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:
11-MAY-2024. An American Airlines Boeing 777-200 (B772), registration N756AM, performing flight AAL66 / AA66 from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (USA) to Barcelona International Airport (Spain) after takeoff from New York stopped climb at 12000 feet, declared PAN-PAN, reported medical emergency on board and requested return to the airport of departure. On the way back the flight crew reported their intentions to do an overweight landing on runway 22 left and requested medical service at the gate. After landing the airplane continued taxi to the gate without stop.
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Image from thumbnail was provided by a passenger.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Description of situation
00:17 American 66 climb out of New York Kennedy Airport
01:37 The flight crew requests to stop the climb. Medical emergency on board
02:25 The pilot declares PAN-PAN. They are returning to JFK Airport
03:37 The airplane was transferred to the frequency of Approach controller. They are planning to do an overweight landing
07:12 American 66 contacts Kennedy Tower controller
07:47 Landing. Communications on the ground. Taxing to the gate without stop
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THE VALUE OF THIS VIDEO:
THE MAIN VALUE IS EDUCATION. This reconstruction will be useful for actual or future air traffic controllers and pilots, people who plan to connect life with aviation, who like aviation. With help of this video reconstruction you’ll learn how to use radiotelephony rules, Aviation English language and general English language (for people whose native language is not English) in situation in flight, which was shown. THE MAIN REASON I DO THIS IS TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERY EMERGENCY SITUATION, EVERY WORD AND EVERY MOVE OF AIRCRAFT.
SOURCES OF MATERIAL, LICENSES AND PERMISSIONS:
Source of communications - www.liveatc.net/ (I have a permission (Letter) for commercial use of radio communications from LiveATC.net).
Map, aerial pictures (License (ODbL) ©OpenStreetMap -www.openstreetmap.org/copyrig...) Permission for commercial use, royalty-free use.
Radar screen (In new versions of videos) - Made by author.
Text version of communication - Made by Author.
Video editing - Made by author.
HOW I DO VIDEOS:
1) I monitor media, airspace, looking for any non-standard, emergency and interesting situation.
2) I find communications of ATC unit for the period of time I need.
3) I take only phrases between air traffic controller and selected flight.
4) I find a flight path of selected aircraft.
5) I make an animation (early couple of videos don’t have animation) of flight path and aircraft, where the aircraft goes on his route.
6) When I edit video I put phrases of communications to specific points in video (in tandem with animation).
7) Together with my comments (voice and text) I edit and make a reconstruction of emergency, non-standard and interesting situation in flight.

[@TiptronicSS]

Had the same thing last year, someone lost conciousness and heartbeat mid voyage, we had a few docs on board and a full med kid on the plane. They literally resurrected the old man and landed at the destination. Old man had no idea what happened, said he was all fine 😅 ambulance at gate made sure of that.

[@giovedder1]

I don't remember a single time when the pilots didn't have to repeat either the number of souls on board or the fuel quantity.

[@bradowen761]

Unbelievable, isn't it? And when they are in the middle of handling an emergency every damn time... smh.

[@W1RMD]

The receiver at 4:00 has some bad power line noise or switch mode power supply noise like a surge suppressor (that little blue thingy near the power cord input) blew apart and is arching. I have heard this many times before and it's frustrating to find and cure. It didn't effect the quality of the video for me though. I'm trying to help the owner of the receiver so if they read the comments they might be able to locate the problem. Thanks for posting.

[@jr637-1]

Minor nitpicks but mostly good clear communication between all parties.

[@AeRoFate]

I’m still curious if American 66 Heavy is ready to come in?

[@BangaloreAviation]

Very professional and clear communications by the pilots. I guess it’s the international experience which requires them to communicate with controllers whose primary language is not English.

[@abnerlozano2059]

Hey love your videos, I’m a instrument pilot and yesterday Tuesday 14 of May doing a cross country I had a alternator failure while in hard IMC conditions. My aircraft was N309FA flying from KXLL to KMDT (Harrisburg international) would like to see if you could do a video about it. Frequency were we declared emergency is 124.1 time was around 4:00 pm local time. Definitely a experience were I did learned a lot flying a emergency aircraft while in imc with rain. Looking forward if you could do the video about the incident.

[@nallen0]

What is the X-ray approach? I can’t remember coming across this before.

[@smeezekitty]

Three tries to get the souls?

[@TiptronicSS]

Yeah, they better not do that kinda crap during a mayday.. or they might miss something with catastrofic results..

[@RLTtizME]

They nearly crashed because of it.

[@DeweyCheatumNHoweLLC]

@@RLTtizME And, they keep saying POINT for the radio frequency instead of Decimal. Lives hang in the balance over this kind of error. /s

[@JohnSmith-zi9or]

@@DeweyCheatumNHoweLLC It is POINT in the USA. Countries can and do have deviations from ICAO.

[@malahammer]

All the KZbin captains that were in that very cockpit are posting in this thread🙄

[@TheButterZone]

Cape it, cap it LOL

[@JohnSmith-zi9or]

Suffering Succotash ... invest in some mic covers AA.

[@malahammer]

We listening to what the enthusiasts pick up. Reception between ATC and the aircraft would be a lot clearer for them.

[@JohnSmith-zi9or]

@@malahammer No, not really. The problem is AA's mics aren't covered and you hear the breath and spit all over the mic. This is different than radio reception to which I agree with your comment.

[@BChandl13]

Kinda ridiculous the passenger got on the plane to begin with AND/OR didn't get off again at the gate. They stopped their climb and asked to return to the gate 8min after takeoff after an 18min taxi which is short for JFK... which means the FA's knew about this before takeoff more than likely. If you need to return to NYC 8min after takeoff you as the pax KNEW you coudn't make it to Barca anyways. Selfish BS

[@rattler254]

To be fair...seizure are pretty involuntary. I'm sure the person didn't want to have one on the plane.

[@kekkelpenneypeckeltoot5700]

@@rattler254completely agree. I live with epilepsy and if I could schedule my seizures that would make my life way less complicated. I get about a one minute warning and that because I start trembling in my hands.

[@familieverhoeve7127]

OMG whats up with this female controller, its 261 souls and 112000 pounds of fuel, he told her 3 times...dont bother pilots in this situation with questions about info the pilot already told you 3 times, long time ago pen and paper are supplied to ATC.