Mayday
History
Catastrophic incidents in aviation history are meticulously re-enacted, providing insight into what went wrong and if the crashes and near-disasters could have been prevented; accounts from survivors combine with cockpit recordings and computer images to weave the gripping tales and expert testimony reveals the hows and whys behind the events, some of which have resulted in important changes to aviation safety and regulations.
Upcoming TV Listings for Mayday
Mayday Cold Case
Two similar plane crashes in Ontario and New York prompt an investigation which determines that the source of the crashes was due to a design flaw on the wings of the planes, both Fokker F28s.
7:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Fatal Delivery
A fire breaks out on UPS Flight six; as smoke fills the cockpit, getting the plane to safety is a race against time.
8:00 PM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday The Final Blow
An Air Inter flight crashes into the Vosges Mountains while attempting to land, killing most of the 96 passengers.
8:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Deadly Mission
The United Nations DC-6 mysteriously crashes 10 miles from the runway while on a secret mission over Africa.
9:00 PM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Cracks in the System
Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami on Dec. 19, 2005, killing 20 people.
9:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Edge of Disaster
Atlantic Airways Flight 670 mysteriously careens off the runway and down an embankment on the tiny Norwegian island of Stord.
10:00 PM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Cockpit Failure
Minutes before they're scheduled to land in Zurich, the pilots of a routine passenger flight can't find the runway; they abort and power up the engines in order to climb, but they are too late.
10:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Deadly Delay
Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to take off from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately, banks to the right and crashes, killing 154 of the 172 people on board.
11:00 PM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Target Is Destroyed
During the Cold War, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a fighter jet when it violates Soviet airspace.
11:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Fatal Focus
Experts make an astonishing find as they investigate the fate of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, which crashed in 2007, killing 21 of the 140 people on board.
12:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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