JetBlue 1971 Declares Emergency to Avoid Severe Thunderstorm

Okay, so you're gonna make us go through a, uh, severe thunderstorm?

Two five zero heading or two forty. Unable. You're gonna go two seventy and you're gonna go in a gap.

You can't go that way. There's traffic. Okay, so you're gonna make us go through a, uh, severe thunderstorm?

JetBlue 1971, I'm showing light precipitation where you're going through, sir. Not from here, ma'am.

So we declared an emergency making a left turn heading two six zero for severe weather avoidance.

JetBlue 1971, roger. We're on a heading two four zero.

Roger. Turning a left heading two three zero to avoid severe weather avoidance, JetBlue 1971.

JetBlue 1971, roger. And I copy the emergency. Welcome.

All right, you do what you gotta do. We gotta do what we gotta do here.

No problem. That plan will not work. That, uh, you have severe, uh, weather over there, tha-that heading you gave us previously.

That's why we declared an emergency. Roger. The supervisor knows already.

She's listening, and we just ground stopped everybody.

All right.