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List of Mayday episodes

Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) 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 from 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 12 December 2023, 270 episodes of Mayday have aired.[n 1] This includes five Science of Disaster specials, each examining multiple crashes with similar causes. For broadcasters that do not use the series name Mayday, three Season 3 episodes were labelled as Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, examining marine or rail disasters.

A sub-series labelled The Accident Files begain airing in 2018 and, as of 2023, has aired five seasons consisting of ten episodes per series. This sub-series consists entirely of summarized versions of air disasters previously investigated in the primary Mayday series, but combined based on similarities between the incidents, such as fires or pilot error. Each episode covers three accidents and 15 minutes is dedicated to each of the disasters that are covered.

Series overview

Episodes

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

Season 1 (2003)

Season 2 (2005)

Season 3 (2005)

Note: This is the first season produced in high definition.[1]

Season 4 (2007)

Season 5 (2008)

Season 6 (2007–08) Special

Season 6 of Mayday is the first Science of Disaster season, consisting of three episodes. With the exception of BOAC Flight 781, all the incidents described in these episodes are summarised versions taken from their respective full episodes from the previous five seasons.

Season 7 (2009)

Season 8 (2009) Special

Season 8 of Mayday is the second Science of Disaster season, consisting of two episodes.

Season 9 (2010)

Season 10 (2011)

Season 11 (2011–12)

Season 12 (2012–13)

Season 13 (2013–14)

Season 14 (2015)

Season 15 (2016)

Season 16 (2016–17)

Season 17 (2017)

Season 18 (2018)

Season 19 (2019)

Season 20 (2020)

Season 21 (2021)

Season 22 (2022)

Season 23 (2023)

Season 24 (2024)

The Accident Files

Season 1 (2018)

Season 2 (2019)

Season 3 (2020)

Season 4 (2021)

Season 5 (2022)

Season 6 (2024)

Alternate titles

The following table lists the alternative titles used by broadcasters for Mayday, the original Canadian series;[8] Air Crash Investigation, the British[9] and Asia-Pacific[10] (National Geographic Channel) versions; and Air Emergency and Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel), the American versions of the series. The American column also shows the Smithsonian Channel's season and episode numbers, which differ significantly from the official season and episode number designations by Cineflix.[11] Episodes are ordered by their production number, and special episodes and spin-offs are italicized.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This does not include "Crash of the Century", a 2005 90-minute special investigating the Tenerife airport disaster, as the program is not branded as Mayday by Cineflix, even though the program was produced similarly to Mayday.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Included in Air Disasters under the original Canadian title
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Crash Scene Investigation episode
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Science of Disaster episode

References

  1. ^ a b "Mayday: Air Disaster - Program Overview". Cineflix Rights. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Discovery Channel Sends Out a Mayday Call – Season 5 Launches with Air India Tragedy, April 9" (Press release). Discovery Channel Canada. 25 March 2008. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Air Crash Investigation TV Listing (Australia)". National Geographic Channel. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  4. ^ "Cineflix's Mayday Takes Flight with the 100th Episode in a Brand New Season" (Press release). Cineflix. 6 March 2014. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  5. ^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (10 February 2013). "Conspiracy Buffs Gain in Court Ruling on Crash". The New York Times. Rome, Italy. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  6. ^ English, Eoin (9 February 2015). "Cork airport crash team did not assist documentary". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Crash of the Century". Cineflix Productions. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Mayday: Episodes". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services, LLC. Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Air Crash Investigation". National Geographic Channel. NGC Europe Limited. 2014. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Air Crash Investigation: SERIES 11 EPISODES". National Geographic Channel. 20 September 2021. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012.
  11. ^ "Air Disasters". Smithsonian Channel. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2018.

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