distress call in English
call for help
Use "distress call" in a sentence
1. The distress call.
2. We're picking up a distress call, Captain.
3. I just received a distress call at the old station.
4. The Captain gave orders to abandon ship, and issued a distress call.
5. But that ship sends a distress call somewhere near M-344 / G.
6. We just got a distress call from a rig due west of us.
7. He said the pilot had given no distress call to the control tower .
8. Priority of Distress The distress call has absolute priority over all other transmissions.
9. minutes ago, we intercepted a distress call from a supposedly abandoned radar station at Severnaya
10. The distress call should comprise: 1. the distress signal "MAYDAY" spoken three times; 2. the words "THIS IS"; 3. the call sign of the aircraft in distress spoken three times. Example :
11. Just before the Emery Worldwide DC-8 Bellyflopped into a wrecked- auto auction yard at 7:50 p.m., the pilot radioed a distress call that the plane was experiencing "center of gravity" problems