Mayday

Episodes

Season 18 · 10 episodes

• E1 Nuts and Bolts (Emery Worldwide Flight 17)
  Feb 13, 2018 45 min

  Moments after taking off from a California airport, an American cargo plane needs to make an emergency landing. The pilots manage to bring their DC-8 to within sight of the runway, but the crippled plane crashes into an automobile salvage yard one mile east of the airport.

• E2 Blown Away (TransAsia Flight 222)
  Feb 20, 2018 45 min

  After circling above the Taiwan Strait to wait out a passing cyclone, TransAsia Flight 222 crashes on the Taiwanese resort island of Penghu. The media claims the storm is to blame, but the evidence soon points investigators in a different direction. Six months into the investigation, the airline is hit with a second accident. And that's when investigators uncover a systemic problem with fatal consequences.

• E3 Deadly Distraction (Delta Air Lines Flight 1141)
  Feb 27, 2018 45 min

  En route to Salt Lake City, Delta Airlines Flight 1141 crashes just moments after lifting off from Dallas-Fort Worth airport and erupts into flames.

• E4 Deadly Airspace (Malaysia Airlines Flight 17)
  Mar 5, 2018 45 min

  A commercial airliner goes down over a warzone in eastern Ukraine. The evidence indicates the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

• E5 Deadly Display (Mt. Salak Sukhoi Superjet 100)
  Mar 16, 2018 45 min

  On a high-stakes demonstration flight in Indonesia, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet slams into a mountain killing everyone on board. It's one of the most challenging salvage operations Indonesian investigators have ever faced.

• E6 Deadly Mission (VSS Enterprise)
  Mar 22, 2018 45 min

  With the future of space tourism hanging in the balance, experts investigate the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's revolutionary rocket plane.

• E7 Free Fall (Qantas Flight 72)
  Jun 13, 2018 45 min

  In 2008, Qantas Flight 72 travelling from Singapore to Perth suddenly nosedives while over the Indian Ocean. With warnings flooding the cockpit and passengers being flung around, it’s up to an experienced fighter pilot to get the plane to safety.

• E8 Deadly Inclination (Alitalia Flight 404)
  Jun 20, 2018 45 min

  On 14 November 1990, Alitalia Flight 404 descends too low and crashes into the woodlands of the Stalderberg Mountain near Weiach, Switzerland, 5.2 nautical miles (9.6 kilometres) short of the runway during final approach to Zurich Airport. All 46 passengers and crew members on board are killed.

• E9 Deadly Go-Round (China Airlines Flight 140)
  Jun 27, 2018 45 min

  On 26 April 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 pitches upwards, enters an aerodynamic stall at low altitude and crashes approximately 340 feet east-northeast of the centreline of the runway while on final approach to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan. 264 of the 271 people on board are killed in the crash.

• E10 Dead of Winter (Continental Airlines Flight 1713)
  Jul 4, 2018 45 min

  On 15 November 1987, Continental Airlines Flight 1713 stalls and crashes off the right side of the runway shortly after taking off in a snowstorm from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on a scheduled flight to Boise, Idaho, killing 28 of the 82 people on board.