List of Mayday episodes

Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Asia and also known as Air Emergency or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis or disaster, their causes as determined by the official investigating body or bodies, and the measures they recommended to prevent a similar incident happening again. The programs use re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, cockpit voice recordings and official reports to reconstruct the sequences of events.

As of March 13, 2017^[update], 144 episodes of Mayday have aired. This includes 5 Science of Disaster specials and 3 Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, which do not examine aircraft crashes.

Note: Episodes are ordered by their production number, not by their original air date.

On 24 February 1989, United Airlines Flight 811 is flying above the Pacific Ocean, when part of the right-side fuselage is ripped off, ejecting nine people from the aircraft and causing explosive decompression. The flight later lands safely at Honolulu without any more loss of life. An electrical short circuit caused the cargo door to open, creating the explosive decompression.

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