• Air date: 04 Feb '25 11 episodes
      Revealing the dark truth that aviation safety improves one crash at a time, Mayday investigates legendary aviation disasters to find out what went wrong and why. Based on cockpit voice recorders, accident reports and eyewitness accounts, every episode also features interviews, state-of-the-art CGI and gripping reenactments.
  • List of Episodes (11)
    • 1. Cabin Chaos

      03 Feb '25
      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.
    • 2. Power Struggle

      10 Feb '25
      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.
    • 3. Firebomber Down

      17 Feb '25
      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.
    • 4. Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)

      24 Feb '25
      Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
    • 5. Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)

      02 Mar '25
      Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
    • 6. Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)

      09 Mar '25
      It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
    • 7. Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)

      16 Mar '25
      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.
    • 8. Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)

      23 Mar '25
      German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
    • 9. Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)

      30 Mar '25
      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.
    • 10. Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)

      06 Apr '25
      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.
    • 11. No Exit (US Air 1493)

      26 May '25
      Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.