Mayday - Season One
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TV Series (Season One - 2003)
Also known as:
Mayday / Air Disasters (Québec)
Air Emergency (USA)
Air Crash Investigation(s) (English title)
Starring:
Gérard Feldzer (expert narrator on Season One (French broadcasting))
Most of the episode of 52 minutes includes two parts. The first one tells the chronology of a flight, with aviation experts and eyewitnesses, usually from the boarding until the drama. In the second part, the enquiry is told until its conclusions and the consequences on industry and airline companies are exposed.
Episode 1 Unlocking Disaster (United Airlines Flight 811)
Boeing 747-122
Registration N4713U, c/n 19875/89 built in 1970. United Airlines Flight 811 experienced a cargo door failure in flight on 24th February 1989, after its stopover at Honolulu International Airport (HNL/PHNL), Hawaii. The resulting decompression blew out several rows of seats, resulting in the deaths of 9 passengers.
Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Episode 2 Racing the Storm (American Airlines Flight 1420)
Episode 3 Fire on Board (Swissair Flight 111)
Episode 4 Flying Blind (Aeroperú Flight 603)
Episode 5 Cutting Corners (Alaska Airlines Flight 261)
Episode 6 Flying on Empty (Air Transat Flight 236)
Airbus A330-243
Registration C-GITS, c/n 271.
Airbus A320
Airbus A340-313
Boeing 737-823
Boeing 747-433M
Various Aircraft
Background is an Airbus A320-212 from Northwest Airlines with another A320 on the left.
Boeing 767-260ER
Registration ET-AIZ, c/n 23916/187 built in 1987. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (subject of the Ep. 3.06).
Sikorsky S-76A
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 of Air Nova in the colors of the new millenium (bottom right).
Sikorsky HH-3F
Among several airliners, a US Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-3F easy to identify with its white/red paint scheme.
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See also
Main page of Mayday / Dangers dans le ciel : Dangers dans le ciel