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  1. Air Canada Flight 143: The Pounds-for-Kilograms Fuel Error

    Event: 1983Published: 30 Oct 2026

    On 23 July 1983 an almost new Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel over northern Ontario after its fuel was calculated with the wrong conversion factor.

    View event: Air Canada Flight 143 (1983)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 767
    Location
    Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  2. Delta Flight 191: What NTSB Report AAR-86/05 Found at Dallas

    Event: 1985Published: 24 Oct 2026

    Delta Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, was on final approach to runway 17L at Dallas/Fort Worth on 2 August 1985 when it flew into a microburst beneath a thunderstorm.

    View event: Delta Air Lines Flight 191 (1985)
    Location
    Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, United States
    Phase of flight
    Approach

  3. Helios Airways Flight 522: How a 737 Flew On After Crew Hypoxia

    Event: 2005Published: 24 Oct 2026

    Helios Airways Flight 522 took off from Larnaca in August 2005 with its pressurisation selector left in manual after night maintenance, and its pilots mistook the cabin altitude horn for a takeoff…

    View event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)
    Location
    Grammatiko, about 33 km north-west of Athens International Airport, Attica, Greece

  4. American Airlines Flight 587: The ATC Audio and the Tail Failure

    Event: 2001Published: 22 Oct 2026

    This video sets the real air traffic control recordings from 12 November 2001 against the NTSB's findings on American Airlines Flight 587.

    View event: American Airlines Flight 587 (2001)
    Aircraft
    Airbus A300
    Location
    Belle Harbor, Queens, New York, United States
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  5. American Airlines Flight 587: Rudder Inputs, Design and Training

    Event: 2001Published: 17 Oct 2026

    American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300-605R, crashed into Belle Harbor, New York, shortly after take-off from JFK on 12 November 2001, killing all 260 on board and 5 people on the ground.

    View event: American Airlines Flight 587 (2001)
    Aircraft
    Airbus A300
    Location
    Belle Harbor, Queens, New York, United States
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  6. Air Niugini Flight 73: Why the 737 Came Down in Chuuk Lagoon

    Event: 2018Published: 10 Oct 2026

    On 28 September 2018, Air Niugini Flight 73 struck Chuuk Lagoon about 460 metres short of runway 04 after the crew continued an approach into heavy rain without seeing the runway.

    View event: Air Niugini Flight 73 (2018)
    Location
    Chuuk International Airport, Weno, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
    Phase of flight
    Approach

  7. Olympic Airways Flight 411: How a 747 Skimmed Athens Rooftops

    Event: 1978Published: 23 Sep 2026

    An engine failed as a fully loaded Olympic Airways 747 left Athens for New York in August 1978, and the flight engineer then switched off the water injection that boosted the other three engines.

    View event: Olympic Airways Flight 411 (1978)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Athens
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  8. Jet Airways Flight 555: Seven Approaches and a Fuel Emergency

    Event: 2015Published: 25 Aug 2026

    Fog at Cochin forced Jet Airways Flight 555 to go around three times, and the crew then diverted to Trivandrum, where the weather was no better.

    View event: Jet Airways Flight 555 (2015)
    Location
    Cochin
    Phase of flight
    Approach

  9. Helios Airways 522: The Switch, the Horn and Andreas Prodromou

    Event: 2005Published: 16 May 2026

    Airline captain Petter Hörnfeldt traces Helios Flight 522 from the airline's audit failures and the 737's history of pressurisation faults to the overnight test that left the selector in manual.

    View event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)
    Location
    Grammatiko, about 33 km north-west of Athens International Airport, Attica, Greece
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  10. Emery 17 and TransAsia 222: A Jammed Elevator and a Low Approach

    Event: 2000Published: 12 Oct 2025

    This double episode covers two accidents.

    View event: Emery Worldwide Flight 17 (2000)
    Aircraft
    ATR 72, Douglas DC-8
    Location
    Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento, California, United States
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  11. Tenerife Airport Disaster: The Radio Calls Behind 583 Deaths

    Event: 1977Published: 6 May 2024

    This Mayday episode follows Spanish, Dutch and American investigators as they reconstruct how a KLM 747 and a Pan Am 747 collided in fog at Tenerife in March 1977.

    View event: Tenerife airport disaster (1977)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Los Rodeos Airport
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  12. Air France Flight 447: Pitot Icing, Alternate Law and the Stall

    Event: 2009Published: 11 Dec 2022

    Airline captain Petter of Mentour Pilot explains the loss of Air France Flight 447 on 1 June 2009 in detail.

    View event: Air France Flight 447 (2009)
    Aircraft
    Airbus A330
    Location
    Atlantic Ocean near waypoint ORARO, between Brazil and Senegal
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  13. Air Canada Flight 143: Gimli Glider Landing and the Inquiry

    Event: 1983Published: 5 May 2022

    This full Mayday episode follows Air Canada Flight 143 from the first fuel pump warning to the landing at Gimli, Manitoba, on 23 July 1983, and then into the investigation.

    View event: Air Canada Flight 143 (1983)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 767
    Location
    Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  14. Delta Flight 191: The Microburst That Downed an L-1011 at DFW

    Event: 1985Published: 5 Jun 2021

    Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, flew into a microburst on final approach to Dallas/Fort Worth on 2 August 1985 and landed short of the runway.

    View event: Delta Air Lines Flight 191 (1985)
    Location
    Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, United States
    Phase of flight
    Approach

  15. Helios Airways Flight 522: Inside the Ghost Plane Inquiry

    Event: 2005Published: 14 May 2021

    This Mayday episode follows Greek investigators as they work out why a Helios Airways 737 flew silently for almost three hours before crashing near Athens in August 2005, killing all 121 on board.

    View event: Helios Airways Flight 522 (2005)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 737
    Location
    Grammatiko, about 33 km north-west of Athens International Airport, Attica, Greece
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  16. Tenerife 1977: How a KLM and a Pan Am 747 Collided in the Fog

    Event: 1977Published: 3 Jan 2021

    On 27 March 1977, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, both diverted to Los Rodeos by a bomb at Las Palmas, collided in fog on the Tenerife runway.

    View event: Tenerife airport disaster (1977)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Los Rodeos Airport
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff

  17. Germanwings Flight 9525: The Locked Cockpit and the BEA Findings

    Event: 2015Published: 11 May 2020

    This short Fascinating Horror documentary explains Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed in the French Alps on 24 March 2015 after the co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit and put the…

    View event: Germanwings Flight 9525 (2015)
    Location
    Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
    Phase of flight
    Cruise