Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
Mayday (Season 25)
Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810) (Episode 1) 7.5
Air date: 2025-02-03
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: 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.
Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185) (Episode 2) 8.0
Air date: 2025-02-10
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: 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.
Power Struggle (Episode 3) 7.5
Air date: 2025-02-17
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Power Struggle: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in to the Java Sea after a hard left bank, revealing deadly defects in the investigation that followed.
Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642) (Episode 4) 8.0
Air date: 2025-02-24
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A) (Episode 5) 8.0
Air date: 2025-03-03
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
Cabin Chaos (Episode 6) 7.5
Air date: 2025-03-10
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Cabin Chaos: 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.
Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105) (Episode 7) 7.5
Air date: 2025-03-17
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
Firebomber Down (Episode 8) 8.0
Air date: 2025-03-24
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Firebomber Down: A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.
Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision) (Episode 9) 9.3
Air date: 2025-03-31
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827) (Episode 10) 7.5
Air date: 2025-04-07
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: 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.
No Exit (US Air 1493) (Episode 11) 8.5
Air date: 2025-05-26
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.
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