Mayday

Season 25

2025 · 11 episodes · 8h 0m in all · 8.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)

   3 Feb 2025 · 44 min · 7.0/10

   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.

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   2. Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)

   10 Feb 2025 · 44 min · 7.7/10

   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.

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   3. Power Struggle

   17 Feb 2025 · 43 min · 7.8/10

   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.

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   4. Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)

   24 Feb 2025 · 44 min · 8.0/10

   Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.

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   5. Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)

   3 Mar 2025 · 44 min · 8.3/10

   Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea

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   6. Cabin Chaos

   10 Mar 2025 · 43 min · 7.5/10

   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.

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   7. Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)

   17 Mar 2025 · 44 min · 7.3/10

   It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.

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   8. Firebomber Down

   24 Mar 2025 · 44 min · 8.0/10

   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.

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   9. Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)

   31 Mar 2025 · 44 min · 9.0/10

   German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.

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    10. Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)

    7 Apr 2025 · 42 min · 8.0/10

    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.

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    11. No Exit (US Air 1493)

    26 May 2025 · 44 min · 9.2/10

    Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.