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.

en
Documentary
Drama
Crime
Created By

Bernard VaillotAndré Barro

First Aired on

Sep 03, 2003

25 seaons till May 26, 2025

Popularity: 138.7329
265 votes
Networks
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(CA)
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Production

Cineflix Productions (CA)

Status: Returning Series

In Production

Last episode: No Exit (US Air 1493)

Seasons & episodes

Total 25 seasons, 230 episodes

Specials

Aired

59 Episodes
  • Episode 1Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery45 min

    Overview not available

  • 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.

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