List of Mayday episodes


Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Air Emergency or Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, :Category:Airliner bombings|bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis or disaster, their causes as determined by the official investigating body or bodies, and the measures they recommended to prevent a similar incident from happening again. The programs use re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, cockpit voice recordings, and official reports to reconstruct the sequences of events.
This includes five Science of Disaster specials, each examining multiple crashes with similar causes. For broadcasters that do not use the series name Mayday, three Season 3 episodes were labeled as Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, examining marine or rail disasters.

Series overview

Episodes

Note: Episodes are ordered by their production number, not by their original air date.

Season 1 (2003)

Season 2 (2005)

Season 3 (2005)

Note: This is the first season produced in high definition, according to Cineflix.


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Spin-offs (2005)

Mayday has one episode that is not a part of any particular season: Crash of the Century, a 90-minute special investigating the Tenerife airport disaster.
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Season 4 (2007)

Season 5 (2008)

Season 6 (2007–08) Special

Season 6 of Mayday is the first Science of Disaster season, consisting of three episodes.

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Season 7 (2009)

Season 8 (2009) Special

Season 8 of Mayday is the second Science of Disaster season, consisting of two episodes.

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Season 9 (2010)

Season 10 (2011)

Season 11 (2011–12)

Season 12 (2012–13)

Season 13 (2013–14)

Season 14 (2015)

Season 15 (2016)

Season 16 (2016–17)

Season 17 (2017)

Season 18 (2018)

Season 19 (2019)

Season 20 (2020)

''The Accident Files''

Season 1 (2018)

Season 2 (2019)

Alternate titles

The following table lists the alternative titles used by broadcasters for Mayday, the original Canadian series; Air Crash Investigation, the British and Asia-Pacific versions; and Air Emergency and Air Disasters, the American versions of the series. The American column also shows the Smithsonian Channel's season and episode numbers. Episodes are ordered by their production number, and special episodes and spin-offs are italicised.