Mayday
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
- Created By
Bernard VaillotAndré Barro
- First Aired on
Sep 03, 2003
- Popularity: 138.7329
- 265 votes
- Networks
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(CA)
(GB)
(GB)
- Production
Cineflix Productions (CA)
- Status: Returning Series
In Production
25 seaons till May 26, 2025
Last episode: No Exit (US Air 1493)
Seasons & episodes
Total 25 seasons, 230 episodes
Specials
Aired
Episode 1Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery45 min
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Episode 2Crash of the Century45 min
March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.
Episode 3Special Report Season 13: Getting Out Alive45 min
This special looked at how people survive aviation accidents, in part with demonstrations at the Czech Airlines Training Centre. It provided case studies on the following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549
Episode 4Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown45 min
This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters
Episode 5Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude45 min
This special looked at how pilots' aggressive or unprofessional behaviour can cause deadly accidents.
