Type of aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11 The fire was caused by faulty wiring in the on-board first-class and business-class entertainment systems. On 2 September 1998, a fire breaks out on Swissair Flight 111 while in flight, damaging vital systems and causing the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, with no survivors. Type of aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Note: Stephen Bogaert, the actor who played First Officer Origel in the crash, was also used as the narrator for the US and Canadian versions. The crash was caused by the crew not arming the spoilers during their pre-landing checks. On 1 June 1999, American Airlines Flight 1420 tries to land at the Little Rock National Airport during a storm, but overruns the runway, killing 11 people. It was later determined that an electrical short circuit caused the cargo door to open. The flight later lands safely at Honolulu without any more loss of life. On 24 February 1989, part of the right-side fuselage of United Airlines Flight 811 rips off, ejecting nine people from the aircraft and causing explosive decompression. Note: Episodes are ordered by their production number, not by their original air date. Each episode covers three accidents and 15 minutes is dedicated to each of the disasters that are covered. This sub-series consists entirely of summarised 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.
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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.Ī 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 includes five Science of Disaster specials, each examining multiple crashes with similar causes. The programs use re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, cockpit voice recordings, and official reports to reconstruct the sequences of events.Īs of 7 March 2023, 260 episodes of Mayday have aired. 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. 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.
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