How often is it used by commercial airline pilots?

While squawk codes are sent through an aircraft’s transponder, pilots can use a Mayday call to alert air traffic control ...

Flydubai flight FZ1073 transmitted 7700, 7500 and 7700 before diverting to Saudi Arabia, highlighting what aircraft emergency ...

The aircraft, a Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook (SHF482) declared the emergency at 10.15pm on Wednesday, October 7. It squawked ...

The flydubai flight incident has put the focus on aviation's little-known emergency codes 7500, 7600, and 7700. So, what do ...

A flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel triggered a security alert after transmitting emergency transponder codes 7700 and ...

A former airline captain reveals what the mysterious codes pilots use in an emergency actually mean - and why passengers are unlikely to hear them.

Smit Machchhar, the pilot in command of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 registered to flydubai, departed DXB, Dubai International Airport.

Every commercial flight in the world is assigned a four-digit code before it pushes back from the gate. The code appears on ...

Of all the codes you don't want to hear this is probably the main one ...

We tracked five squawk 7700 flights on the Simple Flying Flight Tracker in a week. They ranged from a cabin depressurization to galley steam.

A Flydubai flight’s transmission of Squawk 7700 triggered an emergency response over Saudi Arabia. Here’s what the code means ...