Mayday

Episodes

Season 25 · 11 episodes

• E1 Cabin Chaos (China Eastern Airlines Flight 583)
  Feb 2, 2025 44 min

  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.

• E2 Power Struggle (Sriwijaya Air Flight 182)
  Feb 9, 2025 44 min

  In Indonesia—the deadliest aviation market in the world—a Boeing 737 spirals out of the sky and nosedives into the Java Sea.

• E3 Firebomber Down (2020 Coulson Aviation C-130 crash)
  Feb 16, 2025 44 min

  A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.

• E4 Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
  Feb 23, 2025 44 min

  Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea

• E5 Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
  Mar 2, 2025 44 min

  Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.

• E6 Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
  Mar 9, 2025 44 min

  It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.

• E7 Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
  Mar 16, 2025 44 min

  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.

• E8 Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
  Mar 23, 2025 44 min

  German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.

• E9 Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
  Mar 30, 2025 44 min

  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.

• E10 Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
  Apr 6, 2025 44 min

  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.

• E11 No Exit (US Air 1493)
  Jun 1, 2025 44 min

  US Air 1493 collides with another plane as it lands and bursts into flames. Passengers are trapped in a bottleneck at one of the few usable exits. Twenty-one passengers are unable to escape, and now investigators must figure out why. Survivor interviews provide a chilling account of the obstacles, misunderstandings, and confrontations that led to the deadly standoff.