Mayday

Episodes

Season 13 · 10 episodes

• E1 Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)
  Dec 16, 2013 45 min

  On 18 June 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 stalls and crashes in a field near Staines-upon-Thames shortly after take-off from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people on board. The crash was attributed to the pilot retracting the aircraft's droops at too low an airspeed and failing to recognise the stall warnings.

• E2 Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida, Flight 90)
  Dec 23, 2013 45 min

  Just after taking off, Air Florida Flight 90 plunges into the frozen Potomac River. It takes an ingenious experiment to uncover why it happened.

• E3 Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest, Flight 706)
  Dec 30, 2013 45 min

  Military investigators work with the NTSB to identify what happened when a Marine Corps F-4 Phantom collided with a Hughes Airwest DC-9.

• E4 Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines, Flight 587)
  Jan 6, 2014 45 min

  When American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into Queens, New York after 9/11, it was considered an act of terror - until evidence proved otherwise.

• E5 Lost in Translation (Crossair, Flight 498)
  Jan 13, 2014 45 min

  When a flight from Zurich crash-lands, killing everyone on board, the discovery of drugs among the wreckage suggests an alarming explanation.

• E6 Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea, Flight 1121)
  Jan 20, 2014 45 min

  Experts investigate an unexpected explanation for the fatal crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121 when they hear its pilot's anguished cry on the cockpit voice recorder.

• E7 Into the Eye of the Storm (NOAA42 Hurricane Hunter Incident)
  Jan 27, 2014 45 min

  Investigators determine what sparked the engine fire that crippled a team of hurricane hunters' plane during a daring flight into Hurricane Hugo.

• E8 Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany, Flight 888T)
  Feb 3, 2014 45 min

  Experts investigate why XL Airways German Flight 888T spiralled into the Mediterranean sea in 2008. What deadly flaw was the Airbus hiding? AKA: Deadly Test

• E9 Massacre over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia, Flight 870)
  Feb 10, 2014 45 min

  In 1980, Itavia Flight 870 exploded over the sea. After 30 years of investigations, experts finally reveal the truth behind the mysterious disaster

• E10 Titanic in the Sky (Qantas, Flight 32)
  Feb 17, 2014 45 min

  On 4 November 2010, the pilots of Qantas Flight 32 were forced to deal with a series of failures when an explosion tore apart an engine on their A380.