MAYDAY. Medical emergency. American Boeing 787 land overweight at Dallas to safe passenger. Real ATC

THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:

04-NOV-2023. An American Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (B788), registration N885BP, performing flight AAL945 / AA945 from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, TX (USA) to Santiago Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport (Chile) during climb out of Dallas stopped at 17000 feet and started the return due to medical emergency on board. Later the crew declared MAYDAY, requested the emergency trucks to follow them to the gate after landing in case of brakes overheat. The airplane was landing overweight as they didn’t dump fuel of the way back. After landing the aircraft taxied to the gate where the paramedics were waiting for them. Unfortunately, we don’t know what happened to that passenger. Based on the pilot’s reports we believe she’s fine now.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Description of situation
00:17 Initial climb out of Dallas. Stat of return due to medical emergency
00:25 American 945 contacts Approach controller. MAYDAY. Doctors are treating the passengers
03:12 The pilots are ready for inbound turn towards Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
03:57 The airplane was transferred to the frequency of Tower controller
05:22 Landing. American 945 vacates the runway. Communications with emergency personnel, ARFF team
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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 – https://www.liveatc.net/ (I have a permission (Letter) for commercial use of radio communications from LiveATC.net).
Map, aerial pictures (License (ODbL) ©OpenStreetMap -https://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.