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Mayday

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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.

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Mayday Flight 574: Lost

An Adam Air Boeing 737 crashes into the Makassar Strait killing 102 people on board; the pilots inadvertently disengaged the autopilot while trying to fix the inertial reference system, causing the plane to plunge to the water.

2:00 AM on CTV Nature Canada

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Mayday Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster

Investigation into the 2011 air disaster that killed an entire top-flight Russian ice hockey team.

3:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)

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Mayday Death of the President

When Polish President Lech Kaczynski is killed in a plane crash, investigators discover that this was not simply a pilot error.

4:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)

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Mayday Heading for Disaster

A look at the frightening crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 in 2010; after ruling out terrorists, investigators came to a highly controversial conclusion.

5:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)

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Mayday 28 Seconds to Survive

When an alarm warns the pilots of Flight 518 that they are dangerously close to the ground, the aircraft suddenly smashes into a mountain.

6:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)

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Mayday Air France 447: Vanished

With the wreckage lost in the Atlantic Ocean, the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009 launched one of the toughest disaster investigations of all time.

7:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)

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Mayday Deadly Reputation

On July 17, 2007, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 slides off runway 35L at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, and crashes at high speed into a warehouse adjacent to a petrol station killing nearly 200 people.

8:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)

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Mayday Focused on Failure

Experts investigate the shocking crash of United Airlines Flight 173 in which all four engines failed resulting in the death of ten people in Oregon.

6:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada

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Mayday Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster

Investigation into the 2011 air disaster that killed an entire top-flight Russian ice hockey team.

7:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada

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Mayday Death of the President

When Polish President Lech Kaczynski is killed in a plane crash, investigators discover that this was not simply a pilot error.

8:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada

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