Mayday
Season 25
2025 • 11 Episodes
Episodes
1. Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
February 3, 2025
The pilots of a crashed cargo jet believe they lost both engines. But when the wreckage emerges from the Pacific, the evidence tells another story.
2. Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
February 10, 2025
An Air Tahoma cargo plane is within sight of a Cincinnati runway when both engines flame out and the turboprop crashes into a golf course.
3. Power Struggle
February 17, 2025
Power Struggle: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in to the Java Sea after a hard left bank, revealing deadly defects in the investigation that followed.
4. Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
February 24, 2025
Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
5. Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
March 3, 2025
Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
6. Cabin Chaos
March 10, 2025
Cabin Chaos: After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky.
7. Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
March 17, 2025
It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
8. Firebomber Down
March 24, 2025
Firebomber Down: A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.
9. Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
March 31, 2025
German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
10. Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
April 7, 2025
When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.
11. No Exit (US Air 1493)
May 26, 2025
Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.