Mayday
Episode name: 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.
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces
Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes
Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions
Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board
Special Report Season 19 : Headline News
Special Report Season 19 : Rookie Errors
Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course
Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out
Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble
Special Report Season 19 : Perilous Payloads
Special Report Season 19 : Runway in Sight
Special Report Season 19 : Deadly Confusion
Special Report Season 19 : Radio Silence
Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws
Special Report Season 20: Courage in the Cockpit
Special Report Season 20: Death From Above
Special Report Season 20: VIP on Board
Special Report Season 20: Lapse in Security
Special Report Season 20: Mountain Impact
Special Report Season 20: Survivors
Special Report Season 20: Instrument Confusion
Special Report Season 20: Heat of the Moment
Special Report Season 20: Maintenance Mistakes
Special Report Season 20: Take Off Tragedies
Special Report: Dead of Night
Special Report: Engine Gone
Special Report: Lethal Choices
Special Report: Risky Runways
Special Report: Landings Gone Wrong
Special Report: Frozen Wings
Special Report: Runway Collisions
Special Report: Cockpit Breakdown
Special Report: Splash Down
Special Report: Northern Extremes
Special Report: War Zone
Special Report: Time Critical
Special Report: Ticking Time Bomb
Special Report: Impossible Landings
Special Report: Deadly Data
Special Report: Trained to Fail
Special Report: Accidents in the Air
Special Report: Dangerous Winds
Special Report: Sabotage
Special Report: Poor Piloting
Special Report: Pitch Problems
Special Report: Fight to the Finish
Special Report: Bad Data
Special Report: Landing Hazards
Special Report: Training Ignored
Special Report: Reckless Approaches
Season 1
Racing the storm
Unlocking Disaster
Flying Blind
Flying on Empty
Cutting Corners
Fire on Board
Season 2
Blow Out
A Wounded Bird
The Killing Machine
Deadly Crossroads
Lost
Missing Over New York
Season 3
Hanging by a Thread
Attack over Baghdad
Out of Control
Fight for Your Life
Bomb on Board
Mistaken Identity
Helicopter Down
Death and Denial
Kid in the Cockpit
Head On Collision
Collision Course
Runaway Train
Ocean Landing
Season 4
Miracle Escape (Air France Flight 358)
Falling from the Sky (British Airways Flight 9)
Fire Fight (Air Canada Flight 797)
Missed Approach (Korean Air Flight 801)
Hidden Danger (United Airlines 585, USAir 427 and Eastwind Airlines 517)
Panic Over The Pacific (China Airlines Flight 006)
Out Of Sight (1986 Cerritos mid-air collision)
Fog of War (1996 Croatia USAF CT-43)
Vertigo
Ghost Plane (Helios Airways Flight 522)
Season 5
Explosive Evidence (Air India Flight 182)
Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)
Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242)
Dead Weight (Air Midwest Flight 5481)
Invisible Killer (Delta Air Lines Flight 191)
Gimli Glider (Air Canada Flight 143)
Fanning the Flames (South African Airways Flight 295)
Fatal Distraction (Eastern Airlines Flight 401)
Mixed Signals (Birgenair Flight 301)
Phantom Strike (Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907)
Season 6
Ripped Apart (Decompression Failures)
Fatal Flaw (Minor Defects)
Who's Flying the Plane? (Crew vs Avionics)
Season 7
Lockerbie Disaster (Pan Am 103)
Sight Unseen (1996 Charki Dadri mid-air collision)
Scratching the Surface (China Airlines Flight 611)
Blown Apart (Partnair Flight 394)
Operation Babylift (1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Falling Fast (Tuninter Flight 1153)
Flight 574 Lost (Adam Air Flight 574)
Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Season 8
System Breakdown (Next Generation Air Transportation System)
Cruel Skies (Bad Weather)
Season 9
Panic on the Runway (British Airtours Flight 28M)
Pilot vs Plane (Air France Flight 296)
Alarming Silence (Northwest Airlines Flight 255)
Cleared for Disaster (USAir Flight 1493)
Target Is Destroyed (Korean Air Lines Flight 007)
Cold Case (Air Ontario 1363 and USAir 405)
The Final Blow (Air Inter Flight 148)
Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Season 10
Who's in Control (Turkish Airlines Flight 1951)
The Heathrow Enigma (British Airways Flight 38)
Cockpit Failure (Crossair Flight 3597)
Hudson River Runway (US Airways Flight 1549)
Dead Tired (Colgan Air Flight 3407)
Pilot Betrayed (Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751)
Season 11
Deadly Reputation (TAM Airlines Flight 3054)
The Plane That Flew Too High (West Caribbean Airways Flight 708)
Split Decision (Arrow Air Flight 1285)
Break Up Over Texas (Continental Express Flight 2574)
Munich Air Disaster (British European Airways Flight 609)
Turning Point (Northwest Airlines Flight 85)
Bad Attitude (Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509)
Blind Spot (PSA Flight 182)
Under Pressure (Nigeria Airways Flight 2120)
I'm the Problem (Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771)
Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110)
The Invisible Plane (The Linate Airport Disaster)
Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)
Season 12
Fight for Control (Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8)
Fire in the Hold (ValuJet Flight 592)
Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)
Pushed to the Limit (SilkAir Flight 185)
Blind Landing (TANS Perú Flight 204)
Grand Canyon Disaster (United Airlines 718 and Trans World Airlines 2)
Death of the President (2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154)
Catastrophe at OHare (American Airlines Flight 191)
Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Air Disaster)
Focused on Failure (United Airlines Flight 173)
Heading to Disaster (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409)
28 Seconds to Survive (Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518)
Vanished (Air France Flight 447)
Season 13
Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)
Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)
Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest Flight 706)
Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)
Lost in Translation (Crossair Flight 498)
Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870)
Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea Flight 1121)
Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)
Into the Eye of the Storm (Hurricane Hunters NOAA42)
Titanic in the Sky (Qantas Flight 32)
Season 14
Choosing Sides (British Midland Flight 92)
Niki Lauda: Tragedy in the Air (Lauda Air Flight 004)
Concorde, Up in Flames (Air France Flight 4590)
The Death of JFK Jr (Piper PA-32R-301 Saratoga II)
Vanishing Act (Varig Flight 254)
Accident or Assasination (Mexican Interior Ministry Learjet 45)
No Clear Options (Manx2 Flight 7100)
What Happened to MA370 (Malaysia Airlines Flight 370)
Sideswiped (Copa Airlines Flight 201)
The Final Push (FedEx Express Flight 80 & FedEx Express Flight 14)
Death in the Arctic (First Air Flight 6560)
Season 15
Fatal Transmission (United Express Flight 5925)
Fatal Focus (Garuda Indonesia Flight 200)
Fatal Delivery (UPS Airlines Flight 6)
Terror in San Francisco (Asiana Airlines Flight 214)
High Rise Catastrophe (El Al Flight 1862)
Steep Impact (Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311)
Carnage in Sao Paulo (TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402)
Edge of Disaster (Atlantic Airways Flight 670)
Deadly Mission (1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash)
Deadly Delay (Spanair Flight 5022)
Season 16
Deadly Silence (1999 South Dakota Learjet crash)
9/11 The Pentagon Attack (American Airlines Flight 77)
Disaster at Tenerife (KLM 4805 and Pan Am 1736)
Deadly Detail (China Airlines Flight 120)
Deadly Detour (Proteus Airlines Flight 706)
Dangerous Approach (Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286)
Murder in the Skies (Germanwings Flight 9525)
River Runway (Garuda Indonesia Flight 421)
Deadly Solution (Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501)
Afghan Nightmare (National Airlines Flight 102)
Season 17
Killer Attitude (Northwest Airlink Flight 5719)
Deadly Myth (Comair Flight 3272)
Turning Point (Air China Flight 129)
Explosive Proof (TWA Flight 800)
Lethal Turn (Garuda Indonesia Flight 152)
Storming Out (USAir Flight 1016)
Caught On Tape (TransAsia Airways Flight 235)
Terror Over Egypt (Metrojet Flight 9268)
The Lost Plane (Thai Airways International Flight 311)
Deadly Discussions (LAPA Flight 3142)
Season 18
Nuts and Bolts
Blown Away (TransAsia Airways Flight 222)
Deadly Distraction (Delta Air Lines Flight 1141)
Deadly Airspace (Malaysia Airlines Flight 17)
Deadly Display (2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash)
Deadly Mission
Free Fall (Qantas Flight 72)
Deadly Inclination (Alitalia Flight 404)
Deadly Go Round (China Airlines Flight 140)
Dead of Winter (Continental Airlines Flight 1713)
Season 19
Deadly Descent
Death Race
Borderline Tactics
Fatal Approach
Deadly Pitch
Fatal Climb
Runway Runoff
Lethal Limits
Football Tragedy
Slam Dunk
Season 20
Explosive Touchdown
Taxiway Turmoil
Kathmandu Descent
Icy Descent
Atlantic Ditching
Impossible Pitch
No Warning
Cockpit Killer
Stormy Cockpit
Runway Breakup
Season 21
North Sea Nightmare
Playing Catch Up
Tragic Takeoff
Grounded: Boeing Max 8
Cabin Catastrophe
Meltdown Over Kathmandu
Mission Disaster
Caught in a Jam
Seconds from Touchdown
Deadly Delivery
Season 22
Pacific Plunge
Terror over Michigan
Stealth Bomber Down
Double Trouble
Holding Pattern
Peril over Portugal
Turboprop Terror
Tree Strike Terror
Pitch Black
Loss of a Legend
Season 23
Deadly Exchange (Corporate Airlines Flight 5966)
Mixed Signals (Independent Air Flight 1851)
Pressure Point (Japan Airlines Flight 123)
Power Play (PNG Flight 1600)
Control Catastrophe (Air Astana Flight 1388)
Cockpit Catastrophe (Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633)
Dream Flight Disaster (Sydney Seaplanes DHC-2 Crash)
Deadly Deception (Balkan Bulgarian Flight 013)
Delivery to Disaster (Atlas Air Flight 3591)
Mystery Over the Mediterranean (EgyptAir Flight 804)
Season 24
Terror Over the Pacific (United Airlines Flight 811)
Disaster at Dutch Harbor (PenAir Flight 3296)
Deadly Departure (Air Transport International Flight 782)
Without Warning (Alaska Mid-Air Collision)
Eleven Deadly Seconds (China Airlines Flight 676)
Fight for Survival (Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458)
Pitch Battle (Colgan Air Flight 9446)
Under Fire (Saudia Flight 163)
Lost Star Footballer (Elimiano Sala Piper Crash)
Deadly Directive (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302)
Season 25
Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
Power Struggle
Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
Cabin Chaos
Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
Firebomber Down
Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
