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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.
A Mayday message consists of the word "mayday" spoken three times in succession, which is the distress signal, followed by the distress message, which should include: Name of the vessel or ship in distress; Its position (actual, last known, or estimated expressed in lat/long or in distance/bearing from a specific location)
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.
A spokesperson for Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said the following individuals, all of whom were Mexican citizens, were flying on the plane before it went down near Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman ...
American Eagle Flight 5342 plunged into the Potomac River on the night of Jan. 29, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members from Wichita, Kansas, to Reagan International Airport.
Natalya Gudin and her husband, Alexandr Kirsanov, who coached two young figure skaters aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, had a choice to make before the plane took off: Who would go and who ...
A state-of-the-art supersonic passenger jet is flying from San Francisco to Tokyo. At 12 miles (19.2 km) above the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Global Flight 52 is struck by an errant U.S. Navy missile that cripples the aircraft. The missile has killed the flight crew, and left almost all of the other crew and most of the passengers dead, near ...
101 names are etched in stone at the memorial dedicated to those who perished on Eastern Flight 401. On Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, survivors, family members, and friends gathered for the unveiling ...