A commercial flight declared an emergency to deviate around weather.

Attributes
ACN	832359
Time
Date	200904
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Climbing out of ZZZ enroute to ZZZ1. Frequency change with numerous calls to ATC that were unanswered. Needed to deviate left or right for weather. By the time ATC answered; we could then only deviate to the right. ATC said unable right; declared emergency and deviated to the right. FL220 climbing FL270. Clear of weather -- canceled emergency -- rejoined route.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A commercial flight declared an emergency to deviate around weather.

Narrative: Climbing out of ZZZ enroute to ZZZ1. Frequency change with numerous calls to ATC that were unanswered. Needed to deviate left or right for weather. By the time ATC answered; we could then only deviate to the right. ATC said unable right; declared emergency and deviated to the right. FL220 climbing FL270. Clear of weather -- canceled emergency -- rejoined route.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.