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Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organizations such as firefighters , police forces, and transportation organizations also use the term.
Mayday is a 2005 American made-for-television thriller film based on the 1979 novel by American author Thomas Block. The novel was updated in 1998 by authors Thomas Block and Nelson DeMille and re-released as a paperback. [ 1 ]
Mayday is a 2021 American action drama film, written and directed by Karen Cinorre in her feature directorial debut. The film stars Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Juliette Lewis, Soko and Havana Rose Liu. Mayday had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. The film was ...
[6] Most reference works, including the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the United States Army. [citation needed] Rick Atkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR, and a bevy of other terms to cynical G.I.s ridiculing the Army's penchant for acronyms. [7]
The movie stars Aidan Quinn, Gail O'Grady, Dean Cain, Charles Dutton, Michael Murphy, and Kelly Hu. The name of the airline in the original novel was Trans-United (a possible merger between TWA and United), but was changed in the movie to Pacific Global (a fictional airline from another thriller novel, Shadow 81 by Lucien Nahum). Other ...
The Wicker Man (1973) - British horror film about a pagan May Day celebration; The Wicker Man (2006) - American remake of the 1973 film; The Wicker Tree (2011) - sequel to the 1973 British film; Midsommar (2019) - A24 drama where American tourists visit a Swedish May Day like celebration.
Mayday is an upcoming American action adventure film written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, and produced by Apple Original Films, Skydance Media, Maximum Effort, and GoldDay Productions.
Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and ...