Not arguing with the definition of the term, but ATC does not declare emergencies for aircraft. Your reference doesn’t state they declare emergencies for aircraft. Not arguing, stating facts.
disregard. I am wrong.
i’m not even sure how to respond to that. If a person in a control tower sees, hears, smells something that would to him be an emergency situation, he notifies the crash captain, emergency crew, medical crew, whoever of an emergency situation. anything else there to argue about?