
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 Runaway Train
A freight train carrying an excess of cargo loses its brakes while descending a mountain causing it to gain speed and derail into a neighborhood killing several people.
1:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Runway Breakup
En route from Bogotá to the tiny Caribbean island of San Andrés, AIRES Flight 8250 is rocked by a major tropical storm; though the crew expects to emerge from the intense weather, the plane slams into the ground just short of the runway.
2:00 AM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Deadly Directive
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes shortly after takeoff.
3:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Deadly Exchange
After the mysterious crash of Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 in Missouri, a recovered conversation from the cockpit sheds light on the disaster.
4:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Missed Opportunities
On a flight from Italy to the Dominican Republic, Independent Air 1851 needs to refuel on a Portuguese island; a few minutes from the airport, the Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain top.
5:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Pressure Point
A Boeing 747 ferries 524 people on a flight between Tokyo to Osaka; after 12 minutes of flight, the plane becomes unresponsive.
6:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Power Play
After losing both engines, a turboprop crashes in Papua New Guinea, and investigators soon uncover a deadly flaw in an aircraft used around the world.
7:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Control Catastrophe
A Kazakh crew manage to land an uncontrollable aircraft and investigators must determine how a freshly-serviced plane was released with a fatal flaw.
8:00 AM on USA Network (CAN)
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Mayday Terror over the Pacific
On the 24th of February 1989, part of the right-side fuselage of United Airlines Flight 811 rips off, ejecting nine people from the aircraft and causing explosive decompression; the flight later lands safely at Honolulu without any more loss of life.
6:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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Mayday Disaster at Dutch Harbor New
While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.
7:00 PM on CTV Nature Canada
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