I watch it religiously and tape every episode. I think it's the greatest thing on TV by FAR. Every episode is factually accurate to the point of obsession. I am in love with that. Are there any other super fans of this show out there?
sharei love it too! i tape it as well lol. i thought i was probably the only person who did that. it's called air crash investigations here in australia. my two favourite episodes so far are the one where the pilot was almost completely sucked out of the cockpit and the one where the tail of one plane sliced another in half, i think somwhere over belgium or the netherlands. somewhere in europe anyway
since i started watchign this i've developed a bit of a flying phobia though haha. never was keen on it but i'm not sure i could even go in a plane now
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Woo hoo! Finally one other fanatic! Although a couple of my friends watch all the episodes I tape, so I guess there's at least a few of us now. May be enough for a support group. ;-)
I find that this show did not increase my fear of flying at all. In fact I once flew on a flight which had live TV for each seat and watched a new episode of Mayday on it. It was surreal. I was on a Boeing 737 watching a Boeing 737 accident. Our captain kept cutting into the audio with inane announcements and it always took me a second to realize it wasn't part of the show.
lol your friends should come and post here. my mum likes watching it too but not as much as me.
i haven't found anything about it being on dvd so i hope they do decide to release it. until then i guess i'll just tape it lol.
wow that sounds like a weird experience - i would have been spinning out.
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3rd fan of the show here - unbelievable how long it took me to find this page. I think it is called "Mayday" in Canada and everywhere else it is "Air Crash Investigation". Anyway it is great I have seen it about 8 times. It is hard to watch it in Australia without Foxtel as it was on every now again. I checked out Amazon America and there is one episode called "lost at sea" - I think this is the same series. I saw the Fed-Ex one the other day scary but amazing. Probably the best ones I have seen is the one where the plane ran out on fuel and glided for miles also the Japanese plane which had a damaged tail with hydraulic failure was good. We always talk about it at work.
"In fact I once flew on a flight which had live TV for each seat and watched a new episode of Mayday on it. It was surreal. I was on a Boeing 737 watching a Boeing 737 accident."
I was LMAO when I read this. Airplanes won't show a scene where an airplane gets a cracked windshield while getting repaired in a warehouse. They won't show ANYTHING to do with airplane malfunctions of ANY KIND. And they're going to show a show ABOUT airplane disasters, especially one about a Boeing 737 accident ON a Boeing 737. Suuuuure.....
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WestJet flight from Toronto to Vancouver. May 2006 maybe? Live TV in every seat. Including the good old channel 42 - Discovery. The episode they were showing was Hanging by a Thread. My first time watching it. They turned it off half way through the episode when we started landing. That sucked. But on the plus side that meant that there were a lot of announcements by the pilot while the episode was still going on. It was amazing how long it would take me to realize that the whole "this is your captain speaking" bit was from our pilot, not the one in the episode. Almost every time it took me a few seconds to clue in, even though it was obvious that they were turning off the TV sound and piping in the PA system.
shareWhen returning from a holiday with a mate in Majorca in 1985, the airline showed a series of news clips specially made. "Here is the news you've missed whilst you've been away" etc.
I kid you not, but the first item was in depth coverage of the Air India Flight 182 bombing. We were looking out the windows down at the sea and inside the cabin they were showing bits of the Air India plane floating in the Atlantic.
My mate and I looked at each other in disbelief, but surprisingly no one on our flight seemed that bothered.
Anyway, I love this series also and it doesn't make me less inclined to travel. Each crash actaully makes things safer and its already much safer than walking down the road or driving. My wife has to leave the room when I put it on though. She's not happy on a plane at the best of times.
Wow, mycatsnores... that pilot being sucked out of the cockpit was my favourite too... followed very closely by the Hawaiin airlines one where half the fuselage on the top of the plane ripped off and caused the front of the plane to dip by a meter. That one was amazing.
I am absolutely obsessed with this show..but it's on at the most random of times now which gets irritating.
Have there been any episodes featuring crashes within Australia? I haven't seen any yet..but this show has definitely scared me out of flying.
I like this show a whole lot too. I am in Australia and have seen it a few times on Seven. It is also available for download off torrents, I saw recently, so that is how I'm watching the show now.
shareWow. More Mayday fans!!! This show is amazing. I yearn to become a pilot when I am older, and this show hasn't hindered my love for aviation. The best part about this show is probably the graphic reconstructions.. I also just saw the one called "Fight For Your Life", Fedex 705. Pretty amazing, I want to torrent the whole series..
shareI love this show as well, just watched the episode "Bomb On Board".
sharei also like this show. whenever it is on, i must watch it. my favvorite episode is the one where hijackers capture an air france flight and the special forces dudes take it back. i was eating breadsticks at that time and now whenever i watch that episode it reminds me of breadsticks. also i like the one wher the plane runs out of fuel and it makes the longest recorded glide or somthing like that.
i just saw the "kid in the cockpit" episode and it really gave me the chills, but a great show! count me as another fan!
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^ same and after that i watched the Airplane that got hijacked by Asylum seekers who wanted the plane to go to Australia. I quite like Seconds from Disaster as well.
share"Seconds from Disaster"? Which one is that?
By the way, they started branching into other modes of transportation. I've seen one train and one ship episode so far. They worked out better than I expected, but I'm a bit of a purist. I wish they stuck with airplanes (or at least aircrafts).
i like "hanging by a thread"..i am also a huge fan of the show...even though i have got a fear of flying now lol
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hey has any one here seen the episode which involved two planes colliding over uberlingen, germany? the one where all those kids died and the father went after the ATC? i found that one the most intriguing and saddening episode.
sharehey has any one here seen the episode which involved two planes colliding over uberlingen, germany? the one where all those kids died and the father went after the ATC? i found that one the most intriguing and saddening episode.
yeah i saw it too. Pretty sad as it was preventable. One controller guarding two screens because his colleague went out for a break? That's really absurd.
Count me in! As an aviation enthusiast, I love this show.
My favorite episodes are "Cutting Corners" (the horizontal stabiliser of an MD-80 jams, and the plane crashes into the sea) and "Kid in the Cockpit".
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I agree, Cutting Corners is the best episode in the series. I think what made it so moving was being able to hear the witnesses reporting the plane going down on the radio. I was in Western Australia recently, an airline there called Skywest uses a similar plane to the MD80 with the "T tail"
I remember thinking ill never be able to fly in one of those lol
I live in Ireland and have been watching Mayday since it was first shown, just seen Aloha 243 last night, can't wait for Fed Ex 705!
Nanny Stella to the flight deck, spit-spot!
The Boeing 777: Practically perfect in every way!
Re: Air Transat. That was a unique aviation event, but it was all the pilot's fault in the first place. A Quebecois whose previous flight experience included flying drugs (with convictions) out of South America, the pilot noticed he was losing fuel in one engine. He blew his protocols and transferred all the fuel from the one ok engine to the other one that was completely leaking, thus running the whole plane out of fuel. He could have made it to Europe on what he had in the one tank, but instead screwed up and released all his fuel over the atlantic. Good for him that he landed the plane, but pretty sad that he screwed up everything in the first place and got called a hero for it. This is, of course, all public knowledge and came out in reports, but I somehow imagine, based on what is said above, that the tv show, of course, being a tv show, would not bother with anything truthful or actual.
The fact that pilots screwed up and went against the equipment is a major theme of the show. Of course they point out that while they were hailed as heros for landing the plane, they were also under criticism for running it out of fuel in the first place.
From what I've seen the show is incredibly objective and accurate. For example one scene in episode "Lost" (United Airlines crash in Colombia) shows a cockpit computer screen with a bunch of supposed coordinates of air control radio beacons. An important part of the story, but these were just numbers that briefly show up on screen and don't need to be real data at all. Yet when I froze that frame and checked the coordinates in Google Earth, they actually corresponded to various South American airports. Looked like 100% real data. Insane.
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I guess you can say I am a fan as well, and after only getting to download 2 episodes (mistaken identity and fight for your life [fedex] under Air Crash Investigations(national geographic)), I decided to 'tape' them myself, too. Although with what I had, I could record at 6 or 9 mbps straight to my computer from my digital cable box via s-video. (at 9mbps, 1 hour was 4.5 GB) I encoded them myself judging by usual sizes of other 1 hour (46 minutes) tv shows: about 377 MB. I have every episode except 3: 3x02-Attack Over Baghdad, 3x03-Out of Control, and 3x04-Fight for Your Life. (Thanks to the marathon on Dec.29-30 on Discovery Channel Canada.) These were just for myself but could be uploaded by someone else with the resources. Getting the last 3 would take awhile since I'm only home for the weekend every 2 weeks and not knowing when these episodes would air. Just something to look forward to, probably much later.
I also got 5 episodes of Blueprint for Disaster when I could. Mayday takes priority though. The episodes I have: Crash at Eschede, Destruction in the Desert, Inferno at Kaprun, Hong Kong Inferno, and Mystery of the Derbyshire.
Hi folks, I am new here. Have never seen the show but happened to find my way to this site. I am looking to find out if anyone has a copy of an episode that aired in 2003, that would have had American Airlines flight 965 on it. I would greatly appreciate it as I had a family member on this plane and never even knew they made a movie about it.
Thank you.
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I'm with you on this one... no question this is one of the overall BEST shows on TV. The suspense, attention to detail and accessiblity of the narrative are second to none. I particularly like the way the producers can reach through to non-aviation enthusiasts (like I was) and hook you in. The dialogue is incredibly cogent and doesn't pander to the audience.
My favourite episodes are "Deadly Crossroads", "Flying Blind", "Hanging by a thread", and "Kid in the Cockpit". There are no bad episodes at all... Several major aviation accidents haven't been produced in this series as of yet - which will hopefully mean this series will be around for a long time to come.
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I love this show too!
air crash investigations here in the UK
I really want to see the kid in the cockpit one, havent seen that
Tim Lancaster being sucked out of the cockpit springs to mind as a memorable ep and i saw the Fedex one last week, thats a great one, its surprising the pilots managed to get it down
the hardest one to watch was the M1 crash one, jan 8th 1989, 17 days before i was born, my cousin was on it, but he didnt make it, it was so close to the runway!
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The episode where the British Midland flight crashed landed on the embankment of the M1 was actually on the series 'Seconds from Disaster'. Alike Aircrash investigations its covers accidents of all types throughout the last few decades. I have seen that episode on numerous occasion and it is a very sad to see the survivors telling the story, and of how they have had to deal with coming to terms on being allowed to live all depending on what seat number they were given. Im very sorry to hear of your loss in the tragedy it was such a horrific crash and all so close to the safety of the runway!!
Aircrash investigations is a brilliant programme. I usually get laughed at for liking it so much but i just cant help watching!!
Watching it right now! I haven't seen this episode. It's about a military 737 with lots of high profile US politicians and diplomats, which crashes. I can hardly wait to see what happens.
I much prefer the shows with happy endings, where everybody survives, but at least there are lessons to be learned from the tragic ones. Who needs horror movies when you can watch Mayday. I can't imagine how terrifying some of these incidents must be, especially the Japan Airlines disaster where they climb and dive for 45 minutes straight before crashing. The horror. The horror.
The sad thing about the Japan Airlines crash is that alot of the passengers had written goodbye letters to loved ones as they knew the end was near! They managed to stay in the air for 50 minutes before finally crashing!
share30 minutes.
shareYes, that episode was very chilling. What I don't get though, is how those notes survived. The plane was almost completely incinerated. How did the pieces of paper survive the explosion and fire?
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Probably because they were in compact, hard places. The plane was somewhat upside down when it crashed into the mountain. Planes that crash upside down are known to have a good record of keeping things intact. However, JAL 123, crahsed at such a speed and angle that it could keep a lot intact, but still kill virtually everyone inside.
I think the crash was very bad, but I think the episode was poorly done. If you notice in the final moments before the crash, you can clearly see the pilots shaking themselves for the illusion of it vibrating violently. I think they should redo the episode.