Episodes cast for
"Air Emergency" (2003) More at IMDbPro »"Mayday" (original title)

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Racing the Storm

3 September 2003
American Airlines flight 1420 crashed upon landing in Little Rock, AR (USA) in the middle of a severe thunderstorm in 1999.

Season 1, Episode 2: Unlocking Disaster

10 September 2003
On United Airlines flight 811, the cargo door suddenly opens in-flight and tears a portion of the fuselage. The crew attempts landing back in Honolulu.

Season 1, Episode 3: Flying Blind

17 September 2003
AeroPeru flight 603 crashed on a routine flight from Lima to Santiago in 1996, due to a severe failure with the flight instruments.

Season 1, Episode 4: Flying on Empty

8 October 2003
Air Transat flight 236 ran out of fuel in-flight over the North Atlantic due to a mysterious leak, forcing the crew to glide to the nearest airfield.

Season 1, Episode 5: Cutting Corners

15 October 2003
In January 2000, Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashed off the Californian coastline with no survivors due to, as the title implies, improper maintenance.

Season 1, Episode 6: Fire in the Sky

22 October 2003
Swissair flight 111 suffered a fire in-flight and crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Halifax in 1998.

Season 1, Episode 7: Episode #1.7

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Season 1, Episode 8: Mixed Signals

July 2011

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Blow Out

2004
The pilot of a British airliner is partially sucked out of the cockpit after his windscreen blows out in flight.

Season 2, Episode 2: A Wounded Bird

2004

Season 2, Episode 3: The Killing Machine

2004

Season 2, Episode 4: Deadly Crossroads

2004
A DHL cargo plane collides with a Russian passenger jet over southern Germany in 2002.

Season 2, Episode 5: Lost

2004

Season 2, Episode 6: Missing Over New York

2004

Season 2, Episode 8: System Breakdown

August 2012

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Hanging by a Thread

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Aloha Airlines flight 243, on a routine intra-Hawaii flight, lost a large portion of the fuselage in the spring of 1988.

Season 3, Episode 2: Attack Over Baghdad

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An Airbus A300 flying for DHL is struck by a ground-to-air missile on the left wing tip, shortly after take-off from Baghdad. With damage that included loss of all hydraulics, the aircraft crew struggles to land safely.

Season 3, Episode 3: Out of Control

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Japan Airlines flight 123 veers out of control and crashes in the mountains, becoming the worst air disaster involving a single aircraft in 1985.

Season 3, Episode 4: Fight for Your Life

2005
Auburn Calloway, a disgruntled ex-employee of the airline, attempted to hijack FedEx flight 705 and crash it into the FedEx HQ in Memphis.

Season 3, Episode 5: Mistaken Identity

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Iran Air flight 655, a civilian Airbus A310, mistakenly identified as a hostile fighter plane, is shot down by a US Navy Warship in the Middle East in 1988.

Season 3, Episode 6: Bomb on Board

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A bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines flight 43, killing one passenger and disabling several vital systems on board in 1994.

Season 3, Episode 7: Helicopter Down

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Season 3, Episode 8: Death and Denial

2005
EgyptAir flight 990 crashes off the coast of Massachusetts on a routine New York-Cairo flight in 1999, initiating a highly controversial investigation.

Season 3, Episode 9: Kid in the Cockpit

2005
Aeroflot flight 593, a routine flight, veers out of control and crashes in Russia in 1994, after the Captain lets his son sit in the flight deck.

Season 3, Episode 10: Collision Course

17 March 2006
In stormy weather, the Express Samina ferry sails in the Aegean Sea. The ferry is on autopilot with no crew member monitoring the ship's course. The waves push the Express Samina off course, it hits a group of rocks and begins taking on water, eventually sinking.

Season 3, Episode 11: Ocean Landing

10 July 2006
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961: the pilot is forced to ditch his plane into the ocean after being hijacked and running out of fuel.

Season 3, Episode 12: Head-on Collision

16 August 2006
A passenger train and an enormous freight train collide head-on near Hinton, Alberta (Canada) in 1985.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Miracle Escape

28 March 2007
An Air France airliner overruns the runway while attempting to land at Toronto in bad weather. The plane ends up in a small ravine and starts burning, but all the passengers are quickly and safely evacuated.

Season 4, Episode 2: Falling from the Sky

2006
While en route from Malaysia to Australia, all four engines off a British Airways 747 fail. Now the crew must divert to Indonesia. Will they make it? And why did the engines fail and left British Airways Flight 9 "Falling from the Sky?"

Season 4, Episode 3: Fire Fight

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Season 4, Episode 4: Final Approach

1 December 2006

Season 4, Episode 5: Hidden Danger

2006

Season 4, Episode 6: Panic Over the Pacific

2006
A China Airlines passenger jet goes out of control over the Pacific Ocean on a flight to Los Angeles. The extreme forces cause extensive damage to the aircraft, but the pilots regain control and safely land the 747 at San Francisco.

Season 4, Episode 7: Out of Sight

24 May 2007
A badly damaged Aeroméxico DC-9 crashes into a residential neighborhood of Cerritos, California, after being hit by a privately owned Piper light aircraft not seen by the air traffic controller.

Season 4, Episode 8: Fog of War

16 May 2007
In 1996, a USAF plane carrying US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes into a mountain while attempting an instrument approach to a war-torn Dubrovnik Airport in southern Croatia.

Season 4, Episode 9: Vertigo

21 June 2007

Season 4, Episode 10: Ghost Plane

12 March 2007
Air traffic controllers lose contact to a Cypriot airliner flying towards Athens, Greece. Two F-16s are scrambled to investigate, but the plane soon crashes into a mountain.

Season 4, Episode 11: Episode #4.11

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Season 4, Episode 12: Runaway Train

27 April 2006

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Invisible Killer: Delta Flight 191

7 May 2008

Season 5, Episode 2: Behind Closed Doors

16 April 2008

Season 5, Episode 3: Gimli Glider

14 May 2008

Season 5, Episode 4: Dead Weight

30 April 2008

Season 5, Episode 5: Fanning the Flames

21 May 2008

Season 5, Episode 6: Southern Storm

23 April 2008

Season 5, Episode 7: Explosive Evidence

9 April 2008

Season 5, Episode 8: The Plane That Wouldn't Talk: Birgenair Flight 301

4 June 2008

Season 5, Episode 9: Who's at the Controls?

28 May 2008

Season 5, Episode 10: Radio Silence

11 June 2008
A business jet on a delivery flight from Brazil to the US is shaken by a massive hit over the Amazon rainforest. The pilots manage to land the damaged aircraft, but they soon find out that they had a mid-air collision with a passenger jet.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Ripped Apart

16 December 2007
This special looked at accidents and incidents where pressurization failure or explosive decompression played a part.

Season 6, Episode 2: Fatal Flaw

16 December 2007
This special looked at accidents caused by seemingly minor defects or errors.

Season 6, Episode 3: Who's Flying the Plane?

2 March 2008
Accidents and incidents where problems with the interface between crew members and onboard avionics were a factor, and the causes of those problems.

Season 6, Episode 4: Deadly Prize

16 March 2009

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: Scratching the Surface

1 December 2009

Season 7, Episode 2: Lockerbie

2 March 2009
A depiction of the destruction of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland and the intense investigation that followed.

Season 7, Episode 3: Episode #7.3

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Season 7, Episode 4: Sight Unseen

2 April 2009

Season 7, Episode 5: Operation Babylift

25 February 2009

Season 7, Episode 6: Ditch the Plane

14 May 2009
The aircraft, TS-LBB, took off from Bari, Italy, as Flight 1153 at 2:32 p.m. local time, on its return leg to Djerba, Tunisia. At about 3:15 p.m., the pilot alerted the Palermo Punta Raisi airport to technical problems and requested permission for an emergency landing. The right engine stopped at 3:25 p.m., at which point the pilot apparently realized he wouldn't reach Palermo. The left engine cut out at 3:35 p.m. Two minutes later, the aircraft disappeared from Palermo's radar and radio contact was lost.

Season 7, Episode 7: The Plane That Vanished

2009

Season 7, Episode 8: Frozen in Flight

16 December 2009
Depicts the crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 near Roselawn, IN, an ATR-72 that got caught in icing conditions, and the subsequent investigation.

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Season 9

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Season 9, Episode 1: Manchester Runway Disaster

1 March 2010

Season 9, Episode 2: Cockpit Chaos

15 March 2010
Exploring the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, immediately after takeoff at Detroit Metro Airport on August 16, 1987.

Season 9, Episode 3: Pilot vs. Plane

8 March 2010
First ever crash of the Airbus A320 on June 26, 1988 in Habsheim, France. Air France flight 296.

Season 9, Episode 4: Cleared for Disaster

22 March 2010

Season 9, Episode 5: Target Is Destroyed

29 March 2010
In 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 accidentally enters the Soviet airspace on a flight from the United States to South Korea. The Soviet interceptors shoot down the passenger jet.

Season 9, Episode 6: Snowbound

12 April 2010

Season 9, Episode 7: Crashed and Alone

5 April 2010

Season 9, Episode 8: Beach Crash

19 April 2010
A Grumman Mallard seaplane operated by Chalk's Ocean Arways (Flight 101) crashes into the sea shortly after takeoff, becoming the first fatal accident of the operator's 90 years in service.

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Season 10

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Season 10, Episode 1: Cockpit Failure

13 March 2011
On the snowy night of November 24th, 2001, Crossair Flight LX 3597 - an Avro RJ100 regional airliner en route from Berlin - aborts its ILS landing at Zurich Airport and crashes into a wooded hillside, 4km short of the runway.

Season 10, Episode 2: Heathrow Crash Landing

7 March 2011
In January 2008, British Airways Flight 38, en route from Beijing, loses power to both engines on approach to London's Heathrow Airport, and crash-lands several feet from the runway.

Season 10, Episode 3: Pilot Betrayed

16 March 2011
On December 27th 1991, Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 loses power to both tail-mounted engines minutes after take-off from Stockholm Arlanda airport in Stockholm Sweden, and crashes in a snow-covered field 15 kilometers from the airport.

Season 10, Episode 4: Stalled in the Sky

21 March 2011
On a snowy February 12th, 2009, Continental Connection Flight 3407 - a Bombardier DHC8 - abruptly dropped from the sky, crashing into a house in Buffalo, NY, five miles short of runway 23 at Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

Season 10, Episode 5: Hudson River Runway

7 March 2011
An Airbus A320, US Airways Flight 1549, loses thrust soon after takeoff. The pilot has no choice but take a one-in-a-thousand chance, and manages to land into the Hudson River without a single fatality.

Season 10, Episode 6: Who's in Control?

28 February 2011

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Season 11

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Season 11, Episode 1: Deadly Reputation

12 August 2011
TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320 touches down on the known deadly runway 35L of Congonhas-São Paulo Airport in Brazil. Flight 3054 is unable to stop, and slides into a warehouse and gas station, killing 199 people.

Season 11, Episode 2: The Plane That Flew Too High

19 August 2011

Season 11, Episode 3: Split Decision

25 August 2011
Arrow Flight 1285, carrying 256 people including U.S. service personnel, stalled and crashed minutes after take-off from Gander, Newfoundland on December 12th, 1985.

Season 11, Episode 4: Breakup Over Texas

29 December 2011

Season 11, Episode 5: Munich Air Disaster

29 December 2011

Season 11, Episode 6: Turning Point

29 December 2011
On 9 October 2002, Northwest Airlines flight 85 is cruising at 35,000 feet (10,668 metres) above the Bering Sea on its way to Tokyo, when its lower rudder suddenly deflects to the left.

Season 11, Episode 7: Bad Attitude

20 January 2012
On 22 December 1999, Korean Air Cargo flight 8509 departs Stanstead Airport, London bound for Milan, but less than a minute after it takes off, the plane crashes and kills all four crew members on board. Air accident investigators have to find out if the plane or crew error is to blame for the disaster.

Season 11, Episode 8: Blind Spot

27 January 2012
On 25 September 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 collides with a private Cessna 172 piloted by a student on a flying lesson while the Boeing 727 is on approach to Lindbergh Field at San Diego Airport. The impact sends both jets crashing into a residential area of San Diego.

Season 11, Episode 9: Under Pressure

3 February 2012
Aviation investigators try to determine what caused a mid-air fire on Nigerian Airways flight 2120, chartered by Canadian airline Nationair, that on 11 July 1991 ultimately caused the death of all 247 passengers and 14 crew on board, the biggest loss of life for any Canadian airline and the worst disaster involving a DC-8.

Season 11, Episode 10: I'm the Problem

10 February 2012

Season 11, Episode 11: Nowhere to Land

9 March 2012
On 24 May 1988, the pilots of TACA Airlines flight 110 achieve one of the most remarkable deadstick landings in commercial aviation history. Investigators have to determine why the engines of a brand new Boeing 737-300 failed in mid-flight.

Season 11, Episode 12: The Invisible Plane

23 March 2012

Season 11, Episode 13: Impossible Landing

13 April 2012

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Season 12

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Season 12, Episode 1: Fight for Control

3 August 2012

Season 12, Episode 2: Fire in the Hold

10 August 2012

Season 12, Episode 3: Caution to the Wind

17 August 2012

Season 12, Episode 4: Pushed to the Limit

24 August 2012

Season 12, Episode 5: Blind Landing

31 August 2012

Season 12, Episode 6: Grand Canyon Collision

24 January 2013

Season 12, Episode 7: 28 Seconds to Survive

10 May 2013

Season 12, Episode 8: Focused on Failure

19 April 2013

Season 12, Episode 9: Locomotiv Hockey Team Disaster

26 April 2013

Season 12, Episode 11: Aeroflot Flight 821

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Season 12, Episode 12: Catastrophe at O'Hare

25 February 2013

Season 12, Episode 13: Air France 447: Vanished

17 May 2013

Season 12, Episode 14: Death of the President

27 January 2013

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Season 13

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Season 13, Episode 3: Old Habits Never Die

2013

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Unknown Season

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Cracks in the System

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Heading to Disaster

3 May 2013

Mayday Special Ripped Apart

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