Mayday: Season 7

2009 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 7 of Mayday

Mayday: Air Disaster rebuilds eight accidents that shaped aviation history. Each episode follows the chain of events that led to the emergency, from the first minutes of the flight to the moment everything goes wrong. The stories are very different from one another: an attack mid-flight, a midair collision, a plane that loses control or a cabin decompression. Re-creations with actors, computer animation and archive footage alternate with interviews with aviation experts, retired pilots and investigators. They explain what went wrong, how it was investigated and how it could have been prevented. Stephen Bogaert's voice guides viewers through each case.

8episodes

Nov 4, 2009Aired

Dec 16, 2009final episode

6 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 Lockerbie Disaster (Pan Am 103)
Nov 4, 2009 · 45 min
Shortly after leaving London Heathrow airport in December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded above Lockerbie , Scotland killing 270 people. Investigators soon discovered that a bomb in the forward cargo compartment had taken down the plane.
Directed by: George D'Amato · Written by: Larry Bambrick · Starring: Thomas Mitchell, Richard Nash, Clyde Whitham, Jerome Bourgault
7x02 Sight Unseen (1996 Charki Dadri mid-air collision)
Nov 11, 2009 · 45 min
Find out what went wrong when a Kazakhstan Airlines jet and a Saudi Airways plane collided in the worst mid-air crash in aviation history, killing 349 people on November 12, 1996.
Directed by: James Hyslop · Written by: Christopher Blow · Starring: Ash Knight, Saad Siddiqui, Elie Gemael, Christian McKenna
7x03 Scratching the Surface (China Airlines Flight 611)
Nov 18, 2009 · 45 min
Rescuers have to look to the past to solve the riddle of Flight 611, a China Airlines 747 that disappeared 20 minutes after taking off.
Directed by: Ian Robertson · Written by: Alex Bystram · Starring: Henry Chan, Ho Chow, Richard Tse, Gary Biggar
7x04 Blown Apart (Partnair Flight 394)
Nov 25, 2009 · 45 min
On September 8, 1989, Partnair Flight 394, a charter from Oslo to Hamburg, suddenly begins to dive from 22 thousand feet. The aging propeller plane eventually crashes into the sea, killing all 55 people on board.
Directed by: Su Rynard · Written by: Carl Knutson · Starring: Hardee T. Lineham, Laurie Murdoch, Brett Reason, James Purcell
7x05 Operation Babylift (1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Dec 2, 2009 · 45 min
Near the close of the Vietnam War, the United States launched Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from war torn Vietnam. On April 4th 1975, the first Babylift flight ended in tragedy when a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying 314 passengers crashed during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138.
Directed by: Tim Wolochatiuk · Written by: Larry Bambrick · Starring: James Byron, Peter Pasyk, Marcel St. Pierre, Sarah Slywchuk
7x06 Falling Fast (Tuninter Flight 1153)
Dec 9, 2009 · 45 min
On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153 runs out of fuel and ditches into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 people. It ran out of fuel because a fuel gauge for a different type of aircraft had been installed, misleading the crew about how much fuel was on board.
Directed by: Ian Robertson · Written by: Michael Sheehan · Starring: Jeff Seymour, Asim Wali, Ric Garcia, Bruno Talotta
7x07 Flight 574 Lost (Adam Air Flight 574)
Dec 16, 2009 · 45 min
On January 1st 2007, a Boeing 737-400 crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi. The subsequent investigation raised deep concerns about the safety record of the Indonesian airline industry.
Directed by: Karl Jason · Written by: Jeff Sturge · Starring: Jason Weinberg, Gerry Mendicino, Leon Aureus, Isai Rivera Blas
7x08 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184) Season Finale
Dec 16, 2009 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
On 31 October 1994, American Eagle Flight 4184 falls out of the sky, killing all 68 people on board. The crash was caused by ice developing on the wing in a manner that the on-board deicing system could not remove.
Directed by: George D'Amato · Written by: Greg Gransden · Starring: Kieran Gallant, George Tchortov, Lesley Faulkner, Brendan Wall