pan-pan

[ pahn-pahn ]
/ ˈpɑnˈpɑn /

noun

an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
Sometimes pan [pahn] /pɑn/.

Origin of pan-pan

reduplication and alteration of French panne ‘breakdown, failure’

Words nearby pan-pan

pan-fried potatoes, pan-fry, pan-germanism, pan-indian dancing, pan-islamism, pan-pan, pan-slavism, pan-teutonism, pan., panacea, panache