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On 26 June 1988, Air France Flight 296Q fails to climb and crashes into trees after performing a flyby during an airshow at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, killing three people. The cause of the crash is disputed: the investigation blamed the pilot, but the captain himself claims that the cause was a problem with the fly-by-wire computer.
As of 12 January 2025, 276 episodes of Mayday have aired, not including Season 25, including five Science of Disaster specials, three Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, which do not examine aircraft crashes, and a sub-series labelled The Accident Files that aired six seasons.
In March 2011, a French judge filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France and Airbus over the crash. [208] The cases against Air France and Airbus were dropped in 2019 and 2011 respectively. [209] [210] [211] A technical investigation was started, the goal of which was to enhance the safety of future flights.
Proteus Airlines Flight 706 was a scheduled commuter flight from Lyon, France to Lorient, France. On July 30, 1998, the Beechcraft 1900D operating the flight collided in mid-air with a Cessna 177 over Quiberon Bay, Brittany. Both aircraft crashed in the sea, killing all 15 occupants on both planes.
The Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series Mayday (also called Air Crash Investigation or Air Disasters) dramatised two separate episodes about the 2 incidents and the subsequent grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 8 entitled "Grounded: Boeing Max 8" (Season 21, Episode 4) [176] and "Deadly Directive" (Season 24, Episode 10). [177]
The crash of Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 was featured in the first episode of the 18th season in the Canadian documentary show Mayday, also known as Air Disasters in the United States and as Air Crash Investigation in Europe and the rest of the world. The episode was titled "Nuts and Bolts". [6]
2.23 Season 23 (2004–05) 2.24 Season 24 ... "Air Crash" Transportation: 60 minutes: ... Original release date Prod. code; 228: 1
About 35 minutes later, the jetliner made an emergency landing at 7:42 CST (23:42 UTC) at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. [8] The aircraft was overweight on landing. As a result, the plane took a longer distance to come to a stop. [9] Despite wearing a seatbelt, first officer Xu was partially sucked out of the aircraft. [10]