Plane crash actions/speech

[isabrella]

Hi all!

I'm writing a piece about a precocious young teen who is playing a game about a plane crashing with her friends. It takes place in our world, in the 2010s. In the game, her friend pretends to be the pilot but the MC is going to correct her language from generic kid speech ("code red, we're going down!" etc.) to very specific pilot jargon because she knows all about plane crashed. I'm wondering if anyone could share what kind of jargon pilots might use during a plane crash? Any kind of crash is fine, but it would be good to know if the jargon was specific to e.g., engine failure.

Thank you!

Comments

[packbat]

Belatedly: Air Crash Investigations/Mayday is actually the most likely source of information your kid had - Wikipedia says it started in 2003, so it was actively running with a good backlog at the time. Like, technically the kid could also have friends or family members with aviation knowledge, or have read magazines or something, but I bet a lot of kid's introduction to the subject was that show.

[isabrella]

Ah brilliant, that's great to know too!