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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.
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.
On February 4, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance released the names of the crew and passengers aboard the flight: captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josué de Jesús Juárez Juárez, Dr. Raúl Meza Arredondo, paramedic Rodrigo López Padilla, pediatric patient Valentina Guzmán Murillo and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna.
Among the 175 passengers aboard the flight, the youngest passenger was a three-year-old boy and the oldest was 78. Five of the dead were children under the age of 10, authorities said.
Flight 7C2216, operated by the Korean budget airline Jeju Air, was carrying 181 passengers and crew when it tried to land at Muan International Airport at 9:03 a.m. local time but overran the runway.
All but two of the 181 people aboard Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 died on Sunday morning after the plane embarked on an unsuccessful emergency landing at South Korea’s Maun International airport.
The events of Flight 529 were featured in "A Wounded Bird", a season-two (2005) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday [4] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world). The dramatization was broadcast in the United States with the title "One Wing Flight".
Firefighters and rescue teams work at the wreckage of the passenger plane at Muan international airport (Yonhap) ... The pilot then sent out a mayday signal before the plane overshot the end of ...