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The helicopter was on an otherwise normal approach to Sumburgh Airport, [1] when at 18:17–18:20 local time, the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control. No mayday was sent out by the pilots as they attempted to make a controlled ditching into the North Sea, 1.5 [1]-2 nm west from Sumburgh.
In Canada, the Show's original region, Crash of the Century is aired as a Mayday episode with the same VO and opening, and clips from it were used in Mayday episodes in S11 and S12. Execuflight 1526 & USAF W05 (19.1 KC-135 incident)
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organizations such as firefighters, police forces, and transportation organizations also use the term.
The actor behind the one-man show. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide on the runway in thick fog during the KLM aircraft's attempt to take off, killing 583 people. Note: This accident was previously shown on the 2005 "Crash of the Century" special. [9] Although the program is not regarded as a Mayday episode, Cineflix used the footage on a few episodes of Mayday.
Overseas National Airways (ONA) Flight 032 was a non-scheduled positioning flight operated by Overseas National Airways with a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF. [1] [2] On November 12, 1975, the flight crew initiated a rejected takeoff after accelerating through a large flock of gulls at John F. Kennedy International Airport, resulting in a runway excursion.
Indeed my mother and a few of my friends were shocked not only because of the sad and horrible content of the episode, but because Mayday tends to focus on actual "accidents" and not normally deliberate incidents like this (although Air France Flight 8969, DHL OO-DLL attempted shootdown, etc are Mayday episodes).
Trapped is a six-episode documentary television series that premiered on November 7, 2007, on the National Geographic Channel.Produced in association with the Canadian National Geographic Channel and Cineflix (which produced Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation), the program examined various actual incidents or disasters in which victims were trapped on the site.