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Mayday

Mayday Season 25

2025·11 episodes· 8.0

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.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · 44m · 3 Feb 2025Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)The pilots of a crashed cargo jet believe they lost both engines. But when the wreckage emerges from the Pacific, the evidence tells another story.
  2. Episode 2 · 44m · 10 Feb 2025Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)An Air Tahoma cargo plane is within sight of a Cincinnati runway when both engines flame out and the turboprop crashes into a golf course.
  3. Episode 3 · 43m · 17 Feb 2025Power StrugglePower Struggle: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in to the Java Sea after a hard left bank, revealing deadly defects in the investigation that followed.
  4. Episode 4 · 44m · 24 Feb 2025Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
  5. Episode 5 · 44m · 3 Mar 2025Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
  6. Episode 6 · 43m · 10 Mar 2025Cabin ChaosCabin Chaos: After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky.
  7. Episode 7 · 44m · 17 Mar 2025Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
  8. Episode 8 · 44m · 24 Mar 2025Firebomber DownFirebomber Down: A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.
  9. Episode 9 · 44m · 31 Mar 2025Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
  10. Episode 10 · 42m · 7 Apr 2025Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.
  11. Episode 11 · 44m · 26 May 2025No Exit (US Air 1493)Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.