
Mayday poster.
TV Series (2008)
Also known as: Air Crash Investigation / Air Emergency / Air Disasters
Starring:
Stephen Bogaert (Narrator)
Dramatized reconstruction of real-life air disasters, along with interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.
Episode 1 Invisible Killer (Delta Air Lines Flight 191)[]
Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1[]
Registration N726DA, c/n 1163 built in 1979. Ocurred on August 2nd, 1985.

Reg. N726DA Lockheed L-1011-385-1 Tristar 1 of Delta Air Lines.

Reg. N726DA Lockheed L-1011-385-1 Tristar 1 of Delta Air Lines.
Episode 2 Gimli Glider (Air Canada Flight 143)[]
Airbus A321-211[]

Airbus A321-211 of Air Canada.
Antonov An-124 Ruslan & Various Aircraft[]
Seen on panels behind the interviewee.

Antonov An-124 Ruslan of Volga-Dnepr Airlines.
Bell CH-146 Griffon[]
Registration 146454, c/n 46454.

Reg. 146454 Bell CH-146 Griffon of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Reg. 146454 Bell CH-146 Griffon of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Boeing 737-300[]

Boeing 737-300.
Boeing 767-233 (CGI)[]
CGI of the accident aircraft. Registration C-GAUN, c/n 22520 built in 1983. Ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport on July 23, 1983. All occupants survived.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.
Boeing 767-233[]
Registration C-GAUN, c/n 22520 built in 1983. Ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport on July 23, 1983. All occupants survived.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-GAUN Boeing 767-233 of Air Canada. Apparently the aircraft's final takeoff.
Boeing 767-233/ER[]

Boeing 767-233/ER of Air Canada.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32[]
Registration C-FTLU, c/n 47196 built in 1968. Air Canada's Flight 797 caught on fire mid-flight and had to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on 2 June 1983. 23 passengers died.

Reg. C-FTLU McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Air Canada.

Reg. C-FTLU McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 of Air Canada.
Episode 3 Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 & Turkish Airlines Flight 981)[]
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10[]
Registration N103AA, ocurred on June 12th, 1972.

Reg. N103AA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 of American Airlines portraying Flight 96.

Reg. N103AA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 of American Airlines portraying Flight 96.

Reg. N103AA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 of American Airlines portraying Flight 96.

Reg. N103AA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 of American Airlines portraying Flight 96.

Reg. N103AA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 of American Airlines portraying Flight 96.

Reg. N103AA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 of American Airlines portraying Flight 96.
Registration TC-JAV,c/n 46704/29. Ocurred on March 3rd, 1974.

Reg. TC-JAV McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Ankara of THY-Türk Hava Yollari-Turkish Airlines portraying Flight 981.

Reg. TC-JAV McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Ankara of THY-Türk Hava Yollari-Turkish Airlines portraying Flight 981.

Reg.TC-JAV McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Ankara of THY-Türk Hava Yollari-Turkish Airlines portraying Flight 981.

Reg.TC-JAV McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Ankara of THY-Türk Hava Yollari-Turkish Airlines portraying Flight 981.
Episode 4 Fanning the Flames (South African Airways Flight 295)[]
Boeing 747-244BM Combi[]
Registration ZS-SAS, c/n 22171/488 built in 1980. South African Airways Flight 295 was ocurred on November 28th, 1987.

Reg. ZS-SAS Boeing 747-244BM Combi Helderberg of South African Airways.

Reg. ZS-SAS Boeing 747-244BM Combi Helderberg of South African Airways.

Reg. ZS-SAS Boeing 747-244BM Combi Helderberg of South African Airways.

Reg. ZS-SAS Boeing 747-244BM Combi Helderberg of South African Airways.
Boeing 747-300 Combi (CGI)[]

Reg. ZS-SAS Boeing 747-300 Combi Helderberg of South African Airways (CGI).
Episode 5 Dead Weight (Air Midwest Flight 5481)[]
Beechcraft 1900D[]
Air Midwest Flight 5481 stalled and crashed on January 8th, 2003.

Reg. N233YV Beechcraft 1900D of Air Midwest (US Airways Express) (CGI).
Episode 6 Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242)[]
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31[]
Reg. N1335U Douglas DC-9-31 Southern Airways Flight 242 (CGI). Part of S08E02 Cruel Skies too.

Reg. N1335U Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways.

Reg. N1335U Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways.

Reg. N1335U Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways.

Reg. N1335U Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways.
McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30[]
McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 of Delta Air Lines.

Stinson V77 Reliant[]
Reg. CF-CAJ Stinson V77 Reliant c/n 77-166 of the Toronto Aerospace Museum (was 42-46805 then N42357 before).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Boeing 737[]

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31[]
Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways Flight 932 (14 November 1970).

Reg. N97S Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways.
Episode 7 Air India: Explosive Evidence (Air India Flight 182)[]
Boeing 747-437[]
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
CGI.

Reg. VT-EFO Boeing 747-437 Emperor Kanishka of Air India (CGI).

Reg. VT-EFO Boeing 747-437 Emperor Kanishka" of Air India (CGI).

Reg. VT-EFO Boeing 747-437 Emperor Kanishka" of Air India (CGI).

Reg. VT-EFO Boeing 747-437 Emperor Kanishka of Air India (CGI).
Real one.

Boeing 747-437 of Air India.
Boeing 737 & Boeing 747[]

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King[]

Westland WS-61 Sea King HAR 3[]

Reg. XZ595 Westland Sea King HAR.3 of the Royal Air Force.
Boeing 747-237B[]
Registration VT-EFO, c/n 21473/330 built in 1978. Remains of Air India Flight 182, subject of the episode.

Reg. VT-EFO Boeing 747-237B Emperor Kanishka of Air India.
Ilyushin Il-96[]
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"

Ilyushin Il-96 of Aeroflot-Soviet Airlines.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10[]
Registration TC-JAV, c/n 46704/29. Flight 981, Crashed over Ermenonville near Paris on the 3 March 1974.

Reg.TC-JAV McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Ankara of THY-Türk Hava Yollari-Turkish Airlines.
Boeing 747-128[]
On 17 May 1997, the FAA, in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority in the United Kingdom, conducted a blast test on an ex-Air France Boeing 747 c/n 20355/105. (reg. F-BPVE when in service).

Ex Air France Boeing 747-128 F-BPVE during blast tests at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, Leicestershire, England.
Airbus A320-214[]

Airbus A320-214 of Philippine Airlines.
Boeing 767[]

Airbus A300[]

Episode 8 Mixed Signals (Birgenair Flight 301)[]
Boeing 757-200[]
Prototype of the Boeing 757-200 (N757A).

A Boeing 757 with its registration ending by UE; seen again in Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed.



Boeing 757-225[]
Registration TC-GEN, c/n 22206/31 built in 1984.<>brOn February 6th, 1996, the Boeing 757-200 operating the route crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperón International Airport, killing all 189 people on board.

Reg. TC-GEN Boeing 757-225 of Birgenair portraying Flight 301.

Reg. TC-GEN Boeing 757-225 of Birgenair portraying Flight 301.
Bell UH-1H Iroquois[]

McDonnell Douglas DC-9[]

Bell OH-58 Kiowa[]

IAI 1125 Astra SPX[]


Unidentified Aircraft[]
A general aviation aircraft.

Airbus A320[]

Gulfstream G650[]

Airbus A319-112[]

Airbus A319-112 of US Airways.
Airbus A320-232[]
Registration G-MIDR, c/n 1697. Built in 2002, previously registered F-WWIQ then SU-NMA.

Reg. G-MIDR Airbus A320-232 of BMI-British Midlands International.
De Havilland Canada DHC-7 'Dash 7'[]
A Dash 7 is on final approach.

Boeing 747-4F6[]

Boeing 747-4F6 of South African Airways.
ATR 72-212[]
Reg. N429AT ATR 72-212 of American Eagle built in 1994 (c/n 429). Tail fin of Boeing 737-832 from Delta Air Lines in the background (listed below).

Reg.N429AT ATR 72-212 of American Eagle.
Cessna 172[]
Gate gardian at Gregorio Luperón International Airport (Sosúa, Puerto Plata province, Dominican Republic).

Boeing 737-832[]
Reg. N374DA, a Boeing 737-832 (c/n 29622) seen again in Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight.

Boeing 737-832 of Delta Air Lines.
Episode 9 Fatal Distraction (Eastern Air Lines Flight 401)[]
Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar[]
Reg. N310EA, c/n 1011 built in 1972. Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.

Reg. N310EA Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar of Eastern Air Lines.
Episode 10 Phantom Strike (Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907)[]
Bell UH-1H Iroquois[]

Bell UH-1H Iroquois of the Força Aérea Brasileira.

Bell UH-1H Iroquois of the Força Aérea Brasileira.
Boeing 737-8BK[]

Boeing 737-8BK of Gol Transportes Aéreos.

Boeing 737-8BK of Gol Transportes Aéreos.
Boeing 737-8EH[]
Registration PR-GTL, c/n 34962/2215.

Reg. PR-GTL Boeing 737-8EH of Gol Transportes Aéreos.
Registration PR-GTD, c/n 34653/2039. Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 broke up and crashed after its wing was cut off by the Bombardier listed below on 29 September 2006.

Reg. PR-GTD Boeing 737-8EH of Gol Transportes Aéreos.

Reg. PR-GTD Boeing 737-8EH of Gol Transportes Aéreos.

Reg. PR-GTD Boeing 737-8EH of Gol Transportes Aéreos.
Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600[]
Registration N600XL, c/n 14500965 built in 2006. Collided in mid-air with Gol Flight 1907 on 29 September 2006. The Legacy's left winglet cut off part of the 737's left wing, causing it to nosedive, break up, and crash. The Legacy sustained damage to its winglet and horizontal stabilizer, but was able to keep flying and made an emergency landing at Cachimbo Airport (---/SBCC).

Reg. N600XL Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire.

Reg. N600XL Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire.

Reg. N600XL Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire.

Reg. N600XL Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire.
Impounded at Cachimbo Airport (---/SBCC) after the accident.

Reg. N600XL Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire. Notice the damaged left winglet.
Embraer ERJ 145 family & Boeing 737 & Airbus A319 & Boeing 747[]
Top to bottom.

Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma[]

Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma of Força Aérea Brasileira.

Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma of Força Aérea Brasileira.
Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk[]

Various Models[]
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley, and Consolidated PBY Catalina are recognizable.

IAI 1125 Astra[]
Also known as the Gulfstream G100. False registration N600XL applied, representing the Legacy 600 accident aircraft listed above.



Unidentified Aircrarft[]
Orange desk model on the bottom left.

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