Mayday
Mayday: Season 20

Air Date

January 9, 2020

Episodes

10 episodes

Mayday

Season 20

Episodes

Explosive Touchdown

1. Explosive Touchdown

8.0
January 9, 2020
45 min

(Uni Air Flight 873) Experts fail to find a bomb when a Taiwanese plane explodes. But as they examine the wreckage, they uncover something shocking in the overhead lockers.

Taxiway Turmoil

2. Taxiway Turmoil

8.5
January 16, 2020
45 min

(Northwest Airlines Flights 299 & 1482) When a blanket of confusion and heavy fog puts two planes on a path to disaster, investigators wonder if it was the pilots themselves creating chaos.

Kathmandu Descent

3. Kathmandu Descent

7.0
January 23, 2020
45 min

(Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268) A Pakistani airliner crashes in the Himalayas, and when their most vital piece of evidence fails to deliver, investigators scramble to find answers.

Icy Descent

4. Icy Descent

7.0
January 30, 2020
45 min

(SOL Flight 5428) When SOL Airlines Flight 5428 nosedives into a remote desert, investigators struggle to find the cause amongst the scattered and scorched debris.

Atlantic Ditching

5. Atlantic Ditching

7.0
February 6, 2020
45 min

(Cougar Helicopters Flight 91) A helicopter carrying offshore oil workers crashes into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and a far-reaching investigation reveals a fatal flaw.

Impossible Pitch

6. Impossible Pitch

7.0
February 13, 2020
45 min

(West Air Sweden Flight 294) A cargo jet plummets to earth in the Swedish Arctic. And as investigators pore over the evidence, a terrifying picture of chaos and confusion emerges.

No Warning

7. No Warning

7.0
February 20, 2020
45 min

(Trigana Air Flight 267) A turboprop crashes into an Indonesian mountain, and while three systems could have prevented it, investigators must figure out why none of them did.

Cockpit Killer

8. Cockpit Killer

7.0
February 27, 2020
45 min

(LAM Mozambique Flight 470) When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a chilling conclusion.

Stormy Cockpit

9. Stormy Cockpit

7.0
March 5, 2020
45 min

(Kenya Airways Flight 507) On 5 May 2007, Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes shortly after takeoff from a stopover in Douala, Cameroon. All 114 passengers and crew died in the accident.

Runway Breakup

10. Runway Breakup

7.0
March 12, 2020
45 min

(AIRES Flight 8250) On 16 August 2010, AIRES Flight 8250 crashes short of the runway while attempting to land at San Andrés, Colombia in a storm. The aircraft broke up into 3 pieces on the runway. 2 of the passengers died in the accident.