MAYDAY. Engine FLAME-OUT, High Vibrations after Bird Strike. American Boeing 737. REAL ATC

23 April 2023.
An American Airlines Boeing 737-823 registration N972NN performing flight
AAL1958 from John Glenn Columbus International Airport (KCMH) to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (KPHX).
Was on the initial climb when the pilots declared MAYDAY. Reporting having a bird strike which caused failures and vibrations on the number 2 engine and would need to immediate return to Columbus.
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[@WayneM1961]

When an emergency aircraft and ATC become as one. Nothing but sheer professionalism all round.

[@PS-Straya_M8]

You read my mind. Literally all on the same page with the same end goal!

[@bobby1970]

As they should in a situation like this, or any emergency.

[@ginger_nosoul]

At some point i forgot there was an emergency and i was listening to a radio conversation. Good work to these guys.

[@232K7]

That guy sounds like he handles a LOT of mayday calls; that sounded super routine for both of them

[@althalus401]

and that is exactly how it should be done, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday is unambiguous and from there everyone knew what was expected and worked towards the same aim. Excellent work by all.

[@virginiaviola5097]

I usually think that ATC does too much talking, but in this instance there was lots of talking and nothing said that was superfluous or unnecessary. Went like clockwork. Well done.

[@maxsdad538]

I lost 22 friends when their E-3A (Yukla 27) ingested birds after takeoff from Elmendorf AFB and crashed. Rest in peace, men.

[@hollanderson]

That's rough man

[@miketibor6019]

@maxsdad538, I was in Anchorage when that happened and saw the aftermath. My family knew some folks on Yukla27.

[@GeekBoyMN]

Now if only car drivers were so well trained to just drive.

[@AFNacapella]

I wonder if those AI tools used to extract vocals from songs could help clean up ATC audio.. the interference here is really harsh

[@ofdlttwo]

Just a recommendation. Leave the description of the event on 10-20 second longer. Can't read it that fast to get context. The "Flight channel" does a great job of leaving written narrative on the screen long enough to read and comprehend.

[@mikeisgonz0]

Or you could press the pause button to read the text?

[@babygrrlpc5057]

I don’t know about others, but when I stream the app on TV, hitting the pause button causes control tools to pop up on screen and cover some of the text.

[@johnmknox]

I agree with Farrell. It would be better to have the description on for a lot longer it is only displayed for too short of a time span. Most people are not going to mess around with pause buttons and all the issues that bring they will likely instead just lave.

[@virginiaviola5097]

You don’t have a pause button? I always just pause the intro to read it.

[@TheRealScooterGuy]

​@@mikeisgonz0-- On my mobile device, pause dims the screen and makes the text unreadable. On my PC, pause works like a champ. Not every solution works for everyone.

[@bobby1970]

Bird strikes are becoming a very alarming risk to commercial jetliners. It's a real problem. A very scary problem.

[@petuniasevan]

Support your local falconer/hawker. Their birds keep other birds OUT of the flightline/runway area and away from hungry jet intakes. Most bird strikes (not all) take place near the ground. Remember I said not all? I was a crew chief in the USAF in the 80s, working on B-52s. One day mine came back with a large hole in the leading edge of the left wing, halfway between two engine mounts. They had intersected with an unfortunate duck while on a simulated medium level bombing run. Keep in mind that the leading edge of a bomber aircraft wing isn't flimsy. I got to get on a stand and clean duck parts out of the wing structure (so repairs could proceed) for at least an hour and a half in the gentle Louisiana summer sun. Nasty, gross, dirty and greasy, fuel drenched (fuel is stored in the wings and there was residual in there) and half sick from that and the muggy heat and sun, but I finally got that explosion of feathers and gore out of the wing.

[@WarHawkAU24]

I listen to atc chatter wtf is that static the entire time?

[@kwikb]

i used to monitor and decode ACARS. Thats what it sounds like on an audioi channel. So perhaps interference.

[@andrewdrone]

That noise is another person/aircraft trying to talk over them. Extremely inappropriate with an emergency aircraft on frequency

[@WarHawkAU24]

I'm an Air Traffic Controller...that's not the sound it makes when aircraft step on one another (at least from the atc standpoint)

[@h8GW]

@Fred the 47th If so, wouldn't it be prudent to ask for another frequency change off of 125.95?

[@h8GW]

Also "static" is being generous. It's almost like that intermittent screeching was intended to impede ATC.

[@kiwikeith7633]

What is that nasty noise cycling in the audio of this video?

[@RoelandJansen]

Acars

[@davidhall8874]

So why would that make the horrible noise?

[@RoelandJansen]

@@davidhall8874 probably the acars freq close to the tower. For good receivers not an issue. However, online receivers may not be very selective, filtering too wide.

[@miketibor6019]

That's a data transmission, which should not happen on a voice frequency. I'm no pilot, so I'll certainly defer to the other guys who say it's ACARS. However as a radio guy I will say that should never happen. My guess is that for some reason whoever recorded the audio, also included the data traffic unintentionally.

[@RoelandJansen]

@@miketibor6019 the channel spacing in aircraft-land is 8.33 kHz and if you for instance have a RX with 25 kHz channels, you will hear all these channels in the 25 kHz passband. Now, if you have a reasonable RX, you can easily reach this channel separation with good filters and/or good dsp implementations. But not all RX are equal so what you hear is channels bleeding, incorrect RX settings, overloaded cheap receivers, you name it. The pilots definitely won't hear this. And yes it's ACARS. And no it does not happen on the twoer frequency. It's just incorrect/bad reception/cheap.

[@antonnym214]

Who is the BOZO keying in that buzzing noise any time these guys try to communicate?

[@bobby1970]

Oops, did I do that? Sorry.

[@TheRealScooterGuy]

I think it's an artifact of the recording. I sure hope they aren't putting up with that on every transmission there.

[@RoelandJansen]

Acars

[@JeremyHolovacs]

what the hell is that absolutely obnoxious background noise?

[@nealrcn]

Bad memories

[@kaesarromanova1876]

Usa atc are definitely the best one around the world into assisting pilots in an emergency!

[@ijoseluis]

Mayday?? With one engine working?

[@normk5761]

Would you prefer he waited for the other one to quit with 173 lives at stake???

[@EdOeuna]

Not necessarily a mayday, because it isn’t an imminent threat. Certainly a PAN though.

[@MrBermu12]

@@EdOeuna Any airline pilot in the US would’ve declared an emergency with one engine failure and high vibrations…

[@WarHawkAU24]

We in the aviation industry appreciate any Monday morning quarterbacking you can do! Keep it up from the comfort of your sofa!

[@WarHawkAU24]

@@MrBermu12 this! Thank you!

[@patjustpat9892]

First!

[@patjustpat9892]

@Fred the 47th I got a heart, though! ;-)

[@RLTtizME]

@Fred the 47th Hey....he was first. Don't be an old fart.

[@justin8894]

What is that intermittent horrible modem like sound?

[@miketibor6019]

It's a data modem sending bursts of traffic within the same recording here. I don't agree with some of the others that it's some kind of interference. This was either unintentionally transmitted on the tower voice frequency (which seems very unlikely), or it was unintentionally recorded over the top of the voice recording in some kind of editing screwup, which I think is probably much more likely.