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Mayday (Canadian TV series)

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Canadian documentary television program
"Air Crash Investigation" redirects here. For aviation investigations, seeAviation accidents and incidents § Investigation.

Mayday
Also known as
Genre
Created byAndré Barro
Narrated by
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons25
No. of episodes270(list of episodes)
Production
Running time45 minutes
Production companyCineflix Productions
Original release
NetworkDiscovery Channel Canada
Release3 September 2003 (2003-09-03) –
present

Mayday[b] is a Canadiandocumentary television program examiningair crashes,near-crashes,hijackings,bombings, and otherdisasters.Mayday usesre-enactments andcomputer-generated imagery to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition, survivors, aviation experts, retired pilots, and crash investigators are interviewed, to explain how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, and how they might have been prevented.

Cineflix started production on13 August 2002 (2002-08-13), with aCA$2.5 million budget. In Canada itself, the program premiered onDiscovery Channel Canada on 3 September 2003. Cineflix also secured deals withFrance 5,Discovery Channel,Canal D,TVNZ,Seven Network,Holland Media Group, andNational Geographic Channel to takeMayday in 144 countries and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards. In 2010, Sharon Zupancic won aGemini Award for her work on the season-seven episode, "Lockerbie Disaster", that depicts the bombing ofPan Am Flight 103 in 1988. AUniversity of New South Wales senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis's results indicated using the strategy had "a positive effect on learning outcomes" for prospective pilots.[3]

Hallmarks

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The series features re-enactments, interviews (from survivors if there are any, or from people involved in the investigation), eyewitness, CGI or computer generated imagery , and in nearly all of the episodes, voice-actor readings ofcockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcripts to reconstruct the sequence of events for the audience. Several passengers and crew members (whether they survived the incident or not) are picked and actors/actresses play the roles of those passengers and crew throughout the flight, usually starting from boarding of the flight. The flight routines in theair traffic control,cockpit, andcabin are recreated on screen starting from departure up to the moment of the emergency. At the moment of the emergency, external views of the aircraft from different angles are recreated to show the effect and what had happened to the aircraft. The responses and reactions of the passengers, crews, and air traffic control personnel leading up to the eventual crash or emergency landing are then recreated. Scenes in the cockpit and air traffic control centres are recreated using the transcript obtained from the CVR of the aircraft and other recordings made at the time.[citation needed]

Throughout the episodes, the victims (or the relatives and friends of the victims) are interviewed, adding further information about a case as it relates to them personally.[4] In addition, aviation experts, retired pilots, and investigators are interviewed on the evidence and explain how these emergencies came about and how they could have been prevented.[4]

Production and distribution

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Cineflix started production forMayday on13 August 2002 (2002-08-13), with a C$2.5 million budget, afterChannel Five commissioned the six-part, one-hour-each series.[5] To keep the costs down, most of the production was kept at Cineflix's offices inToronto.[6] While in production, the series was sold toFrance 5,Discovery Channel, andCanal D.[7] On2 June 2003 (2003-06-02), Cineflix announced that it had sold the series toTVNZ,Seven Network, andHolland Media Group.[7] Later that year on 22 October, a month before the airing of the first season, Cineflix announced that it had secured a major international deal withNational Geographic Channel to airMayday in 144 countries and 26 languages.[8]

In 2011,Smithsonian Networks aired season five, renamedAir Disasters, making it the first time in the United States thatMayday had aired on a channel other than National Geographic. On 25 January 2012, Cineflix Rights announced that it would be selling seasons 8, 9, and 11 (23 episodes) to Smithsonian Networks.[9] On 28 March 2014, Cineflix Rights announced a deal with Smithsonian Networks to air seasons three, four, and 13 (34 episodes).[10]Air Disasters is also available onParamount+, which also carries someSmithsonian Networks programming.

In 2020,The Weather Channel in the United States began airing several episodes of the series under the titleMayday: Air Disaster. Starting in 2021 and continuing to this day, the Wonder and On the Move YouTube channels (owned by Little Dot Studios, a subsidiary ofAll3Media[11]) uploaded the first nine seasons ofMayday and theCrash of the Century special with the episodes in their full uncut versions and are available in all countries, with the exception of theUnited Kingdom, where they aregeoblocked.[12][13]

In the United States, the show's tenth and twelfth seasons are available for streaming online on free, advertiser-supported streaming servicesTubi andFreevee under the titleMayday: Air Disasters, while the show's first season is also made available for streaming online onAmazon Prime Video, provided by MagellanTV, under the titleMayDay: Air Disaster Investigations.[14][15][16]

Episodes

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Main article:List of Mayday episodes

As of 12 January 2025, 276 episodes ofMayday have aired, not including Season 25, including fiveScience of Disaster specials, threeCrash Scene Investigation spin-offs, which do not examine aircraft crashes, and a sub-series labelledThe Accident Files that aired six seasons.

Seasons[17]EpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
163 September 2003 (2003-09-03)22 October 2003 (2003-10-22)
2623 January 2005 (2005-01-23)27 February 2005 (2005-02-27)
31314 September 2005 (2005-09-14)7 December 2005 (2005-12-07)
41015 April 2007 (2007-04-15)17 June 2007 (2007-06-17)
5109 April 2008 (2008-04-09)11 June 2008 (2008-06-11)
6316 December 2007 (2007-12-16)2 March 2008 (2008-03-02)
784 November 2009 (2009-11-04)17 December 2009 (2009-12-17)
8210 June 2009 (2009-06-10)17 June 2009 (2009-06-17)
988 September 2010 (2010-09-08)27 October 2010 (2010-10-27)
10627 February 2011 (2011-02-27)28 March 2011 (2011-03-28)
111312 August 2011 (2011-08-12)13 April 2012 (2012-04-13)
12133 August 2012 (2012-08-03)15 April 2013 (2013-04-15)
131116 December 2013 (2013-12-16)9 May 2014 (2014-05-09)
14115 January 2015 (2015-01-05)2 March 2015 (2015-03-02)
15104 January 2016 (2016-01-04)17 February 2016 (2016-02-17)
16107 June 2016 (2016-06-07)13 February 2017 (2017-02-13)
171020 February 2017 (2017-02-20)3 October 2017 (2017-10-03)
181013 February 2018 (2018-02-13)4 July 2018 (2018-07-04)
19102 January 2019 (2019-01-02)11 March 2019 (2019-03-11)
20109 January 2020 (2020-01-09)12 March 2020 (2020-03-12)
21104 April 2021 (2021-04-04)6 June 2021 (2021-06-06)
22103 January 2022 (2022-01-03)12 February 2022 (2022-02-12)
23103 January 2023 (2023-01-03)7 March 2023 (2023-03-07)
241011 February 2024 (2024-02-11)14 April 2024 (2024-04-14)
25112 February 2025 (2025-02-02)[18]TBA


Reception

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The series has been well received by critics.[4] Franck Tabouring fromDVD Verdict said, "It's a well-produced show with plenty of compelling information about tragic accidents, telling how some people survived and others didn't."[4]

The senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. The study was done with prospective pilots studying the "Aircraft Systems for Aviators" undergraduate course by including "study of air accidents and incidents associated with aircraft systems." The results of the study showed "the use of air accidents and incident scenarios had a positive effect on learning outcomes."[3]

Awards and nominations

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Overall, the series has been nominated for nine awards, winning two, both forfilm editing.

YearNominated workRecipient(s)CategoryResult
Canadian Society of Cinematographers
2004"Flying Blind"Michael BolandBest Cinematography in DocudramaNominated
2008"Final Approach"Damir I ChytilNominated
"Gimli Glider"D. Gregor HageyNominated
2009"Air India: Explosive Evidence"Paul ToltonNominated
"Fatal Distraction"D. Gregor HageyNominated
Gemini Awards
2009Mayday: Season 5Simon Lloyd • Larry Bambrick • Katherine Buck • Alex Bystram •
Greg Lanning • Samantha Linton •
Glen Salzman • John Vandervelde
Best General/Human Interest SeriesNominated
2010"Lockerbie Disaster"Sharon ZupancicBest Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or SeriesWon
Canadian Screen Awards
2014"Focused on Failure"Brian Eimer • Jessica Moniz •
Josh Vamos • Matt Vandersluys •
Michael Bonini • Nadia Awad
Best Sound in an Information/ Documentary or Lifestyle Program or SeriesNominated
2015"Into the Eye of the Storm"Dan HawkesBest Picture Editing in a Factual Program or SeriesWon

Home media

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In 2009,Entertainment One released the complete first season of the show onDVD inRegion 1 in Canada.[19]

Shock Records has released Seasons 1–18 in Australia as a 48-disc set, coded NTSC, Region 4.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^The UK broadcast of season one was hosted on Channel Five and narrated by David Bamber.
  2. ^Alternatively known asAir Crash Investigation in Australia (Seven Network), New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom;Air Crash: Disaster Revealed on5Select and some Asian and European countries; and additionally known as Air Emergency, Air Disasters, andMayday: Air Disaster[2] in the United States.

References

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  1. ^Daingerfield, Michael (14 November 2022)."Michael Daingerfield – Voice Over".Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved14 November 2022.
  2. ^"Original Show – Mayday: Air Disaster | The Weather Channel Television Network".weathergroup.com. Archived fromthe original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved26 July 2020.
  3. ^abLewis, Raymond (December 2009)."Air Crash Investigators – comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation to enhance student learning"(PDF).20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 6–9 December 2009: Engineering the Curriculum. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 6 July 2011.
  4. ^abcdTabouring, Franck (23 April 2009)."Mayday – Air Disasters".DVD Verdict. Archived fromthe original on 15 May 2011.
  5. ^"New Cineflix science series Mayday starts production" (Press release). Cineflix. 13 August 2002.Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved8 November 2010.
  6. ^Luke, Donna (1 January 2003)."No Borders" (Interview). Interviewed by Susan Zeller for Realscreen.Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved8 November 2010.
  7. ^ab"Cineflix goes global with popular science series Mayday. Germany's Prosieben latest channel to acquire the show" (Press release). Cineflix. 2 June 2003. Archived fromthe original on 27 October 2010.
  8. ^"Cineflix International strikes NATGEO deal for new popular science series Mayday" (Press release). Cineflix. 22 October 2003. Archived fromthe original on 27 October 2010.
  9. ^"Cineflix Rights seals North and Latin American deals" (Press release). Cineflix. 25 January 2012.Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved27 January 2012.
  10. ^"Cineflix Rights seals multiple deals in advance of MIPTV 2014" (Press release). Cineflix. 28 March 2014.Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved5 September 2014.
  11. ^"Wonder".littledotstudios.com. 14 October 2020.Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved4 January 2022.
  12. ^"Wonder – YouTube".Archived from the original on 31 May 2021. Retrieved4 January 2022 – via YouTube.
  13. ^"On the Move".YouTube.Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved26 October 2022.
  14. ^"Watch Mayday Air Disasters".Tubi.Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved26 October 2022.
  15. ^"Watch MayDay: Air Disaster Investigations".Amazon Prime Video.Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved26 October 2022.
  16. ^"Watch Air Disasters".Amazon Prime Video.Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved26 October 2022.
  17. ^"Mayday: Air Disaster - Program Overview".Cineflix Rights.Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved7 March 2019.
  18. ^Cite error: The named referencefinland was invoked but never defined (see thehelp page).
  19. ^"Mayday: Air Disasters".Amazon. July 2016.Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved26 October 2022.

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