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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.
As of 12 December 2023, 270 episodes of Mayday have aired. [n 1] This includes five Science of Disaster specials, each examining multiple crashes with similar causes. For broadcasters that do not use the series name Mayday, three Season 3 episodes were labelled as Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, examining marine or rail disasters.
Procedure words (abbreviated to prowords) are words or phrases limited to radiotelephony procedure used to facilitate communication by conveying information in a condensed standard verbal format. [1] Prowords are voice versions of the much older procedural signs for Morse code which were first developed in the 1860s for Morse telegraphy , and ...
Mayday [b] is a Canadian documentary television program examining air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters. Mayday uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition, survivors, aviation experts, retired pilots, and crash investigators are ...
Signals can be in the form of blasts on alarm bells, sounds on the ship's whistle or code names paged over the PA system. Alpha, alpha, alpha is the code for a medical emergency aboard Royal Caribbean and Norwegian ships. [1] Alpha Team, Alpha Team, Alpha Team is the code for a fire emergency aboard Carnival Cruise Line ships.
The pages in this category are redirects from Mayday episodes. To add a redirect to this category, place {{ Television episode redirect handler |series_name=Mayday (Canadian TV series)}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]] .
The international distress calls are standardised across land, sea, and air, and so the procedure for relaying a 'Mayday' in the air is the same as for maritime use, e.g., 'Mayday Relay, Mayday Relay, Mayday Relay ...' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.8.126.91 14:22, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
All of season one and two episodes, the cause is mentioned in the summary. So having a separate cause section at the bottom is repetitive. Either edit out the cause from the summaries or edit out the separate cause part. I would vote the latter. This is a list of television episodes not a list of crashes. The episode should be summarized....