Mayday

Episodes

Season 10 · 6 episodes

• E1 Cockpit Failure (Crossair Flight 3597)
  Feb 27, 2011 45 min

  Minutes before they're scheduled to land in Zurich, the pilots of a routine passenger flight can't find the runway. They abort and power up the engines in order to climb. But they are too late.

• E2 Who's In Control?
  Feb 28, 2011 45 min

  On 25 February 2009, a Turkish Airlines jet crashed during landing at Schiphol airport, killing nine people. What caused the plane to crash?

• E3 The Heathrow Enigma (British Airways Flight 38)
  Mar 7, 2011 45 min

  When an aircraft's engines fail during its approach to Heathrow, the captain's quick thinking enables the flight to avoid nearby buildings. The craft crashes just short of the runway and all aboard miraculously survive. But what caused the engine failure in the first place - could Sherlock Holmes theories lend a hand to investigators? AKA: Heathrow Crash Landing

• E4 Pilot Betrayed (Scandinavian 751)
  Mar 12, 2011 45 min

  Despite being de-iced twice for winter conditions, both engines fail in a plane departing Stockholm. It falls 3000 feet and breaks in three but everyone survives. What crippled a near-new jetliner?

• E5 Dead Tired (Colgan Air Flight 3407)
  Mar 14, 2011 45 min

  In one of the worst American crashes of the past decade, an aircraft approaching Buffalo airport plummets towards the ground and crashes into a suburban house. With a fire raging at the crash site, can investigators find any surviving clues in the wreckage? AKA: Stalled in the Sky

• E6 Hudson River Runway (US Airways Flight 1549)
  Mar 21, 2011 45 min

  On January 15, 2009 an Airbus 320 callsign US Airways Flight 1549 hit birds just 1 and half minutes after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York. The flight just lasted about 5 minutes when the plane hit the Hudson River. This was described as "the most successful ditching of all time". AKA: Hudson Splash Down