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Mayday
Mayday (TV series)
Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation in the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television programme produced by Cineflix investigating air crashes, near-crashes and other disasters...

, also known as Air Crash Investigation(s) in the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

television program

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

produced by Cineflix
Cineflix
Cineflix Productions is a television production company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with branch offices in Toronto, New York City and London...

investigating air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings

Aircraft hijacking

Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Occasionally, however, the hijackers have flown the aircraft themselves, such as the September 11 attacks of 2001...

, bombings and other disaster

Disaster

A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment...

s. It reveals events that led up to each disaster, the causes of the incidents and the measures recommended in the report by the NTSB or the investigating Commission to prevent a similar incident happening again. It features re-enactments

Historical reenactment

Historical reenactment is an educational activity in which participants attempt torecreate some aspects of a historical event or period. This may be as narrow as a specific moment from a battle, such as the reenactment of Pickett's Charge at the Great Reunion of 1913, or as broad as an entire...

, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in art, video games, films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media...

, and in some episodes cockpit voice recordings

Cockpit voice recorder

A cockpit voice recorder , often referred to as a "black box", is a flight recorder used to record the audio environment in the flight deck of an aircraft for the purpose of investigation of accidents and incidents...

were used to reconstruct the sequence of events to the audiences.

, a total of 75 episodes of Mayday have aired including five "Science of Disaster" specials and three "Crash Scene Investigation" spin-offs. Thirteen episodes are now currently under production for Season 11, three of the episodes have aired on Discovery Channel Canada

Discovery Channel Canada

Discovery Channel is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel devoted to nature, adventure, science and technology programming. Discovery Channel is currently owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc...

. The airing dates of the other ten episodes are unknown.

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Season 1 (2003)

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Science of Disaster" season consisting of 3 episodes.

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Science of Disaster" series consisting of 2 episodes.

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Deadly Reputation" on Discovery Channel Canada

Discovery Channel Canada

at 10:00 PM (EST

Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...

). Three episodes have been shown so far, and two others on Continental Express Flight 2574

Continental Express Flight 2574

Continental Express Flight 2574 was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas to Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. On September 11, 1991, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, registered , crashed as it was...

and British European Airways Flight 609 have been announced but haven't aired. According to the Toronto Film and Television office, filming of the episodes started on 28 March 2011 and will end on 31 December 2011.

|Disaster(s)

Science of Disaster" (Season 6 and 8), "Crash Scene Investigation" a spin-off that investigates train and ship disasters (Season 3; episodes 2, 3 and 12) and "Crash of the Century" a 1 1/2 hour special investigating the Tenerife disaster

Tenerife disaster

The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft collided on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands...

Alternate Titles

This is a list of Alternate Titles that brodcasters use in Mayday for the Canadian (Original), UK, Australian and the US show.

Season 1

#	Canada (Original Title)	United States
1.	"Racing the Storm"	"Fatal Landing"
2.	"Unlocking Disaster"	"Ripped From the Sky"
3.	"Flying on Empty"
4.	"Fire on Board"	"Fire in the Sky"
5.	"Flying Blind"
6.	"Cutting Corners"	"Fatal Error"

Season 2

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"Blowout"			"Ripped From the Cockpit"
2.	"A Wounded Bird"			"One Wing Flight"
3.	"The Killing Machine"	"Hijacked"	Same as UK	"Hijack Rescue"
4.	"Lost"		"Crash on the Mountain"
5.	"Missing Over New York"	"Deadly Delay"	Same as UK
6.	"Deadly Crossroads"	"Mid-Air Collision"	Same as UK	"A Father's Revenge"

Season 3

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"Mistaken Identity"
2.	"Collision Course"		"Greek Ferry Disaster"	"Express Samina"
3.	"Head-On Collision"			"Impact on the Rails"
4.	"Out of Control"
5.	"Attack Over Baghdad"
6.	"Ocean Landing"	"African Hijack"	Same as UK
7.	"Kid in the Cockpit"
8.	"Death and Deanial"	"EgyptAir 990"	Same as UK
9.	"Fight for Your Life"	"Suicide Attack"	Same as UK
10.	"Helicopter Down"
11.	"Hanging by a Thread"
12.	"Runaway Train"			"Unstoppable Train"
13.	"Bomb on Board"

Season 4

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"Desperate Escape"	"Miracle Escape"	Same as UK
2.	"Falling from the Sky"	"All Engines Failed!"
3.	"Fire Fight"			"Fiery Landing"
4.	"Final Approach"	"Blind Landing"	"Missed Approach"
5.	"Hidden Danger"			"Mystery Crashes"
6.	"Panic Over the Pacific"	"6 Mile Plunge"
7.	"Vertigo"	"Desperate Dive"	Same as UK	"Deadly Disorientation"
8.	"Ghost Plane"			"Unconscious Pilot"
9.	"Out of Sight"	"Collision Over LA"
10.	"Fog of War"	"Flight 21 is Missing"	"Inbound"	"Crash in Croatia"

Season 5

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"Behind Closed Doors"
2.	"Gimli Glider"	"Deadly Glide"	"Miracle Flight"
3.	"Invisible Killer"	"Slammed To The Ground"	Same as UK
4.	"Fanning the Flames"	"Cargo Conspiracy"	"Mystery Fire"
5.	"Dead Weight
6.	"Southern Storm"
7.	"Air India: Explosive Evidence"	"Explosive Evidence"	Same as UK
8.	"Mixed Signals"	"The Plane That Wouldn't Talk"	Same as UK
9.	"Fatal Distraction"	"Who's at the Controls?"
10.	"Phantom Strike"	"Radio Silence"		"Death Over the Amazon"

Season 6 (Special)

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia
1.	"Ripped Apart"
2.	"Fatal Flaw"	"Fatal Fix"	Same as UK
3.	"Who's Flying the Plane?"

Season 7

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"Scratching the Surface"	"Shattered in Seconds"	Same as UK
2.	"Lockerbie Disaster"	"Lockerbie"	Same as UK	"Explosive Device"
3.	"Blown Apart"	"Deadly Prize"	"Silent Killer"
4.	"Operation Babylift"
5.	"Sight Unseen"	"Head-On Collsion"	"Collsion Course"
6.	"Flight 574: Lost"	"The Plane That Vanished"	Same as UK	"Lost in Space"
7.	"Frozen in Flight"		"Deep Freeze"
8.	"Falling Fast"	"Ditch the Plane"	Same as UK

Season 8 (Special)

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"System Breakdown"	"Communication Breakdown"
2.	"Cruel Skies"			"Deadly Storms"

Season 9

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia
1.	"Panic on the Runway"	"Manchester Runway Disaster"
2.	"Alarming Silence"	"Cockpit Chaos"	Same as UK
3.	"Pilot vs. Plane"
4.	"Cleared for Disaster"
5.	"Target is Destroyed"
6.	"Cold Case"	"Snowbound"
7.	"The Final Blow"	"Crashed and Missing"	"Invisible Mountain"
8.	"Cracks in the System"	"Beach Crash"	"Miami Mystery"

Season 10

#	Canada (Original Title)
1.	"Cockpit Failure"
2.	"The Heathrow Enigma"	"Heathrow Crash Landing"
3.	"Pilot Betrayed"
4.	"Dead Tired"	"Stalled in the Sky"
5.	"Hudson River Runway"	"Hudson Splash Down"
6.	"Who's In Control?"

Season 11

#	Canada (Original Title)		Australia	United States
1.	"Deadly Reputation"	TBA	TBA	TBA
2.	"The Plane That Flew Too High"	TBA	TBA	TBA
3.	"Split Decision"	TBA	TBA	TBA
4.	"Break Up Over Texas"	TBA	TBA	TBA

External links

Cineflix: Mayday
Cineflix: Mayday - Science of Disaster
Cineflix: Crash of the Century
Air Emergency on National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
Air Disasters on Smithsonian Channel

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Season 1 (2003)

Alternate Titles

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6 (Special)

Season 7

Season 8 (Special)

Season 9

Season 10

Season 11

See also

External links