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| Created by | André Barro |
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| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 24 |
| No. of episodes | 270 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company | Cineflix Productions |
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| Network | Discovery Channel Canada |
| Release | 3 September 2003 – present |
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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 interviewed, to explain how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, and how they might have been prevented.
Cineflix started production on 13 August 2002, with a CA$2.5 million budget. In Canada itself, the program premiered on Discovery Channel Canada on 3 September 2003. Cineflix also secured deals with France 5, Discovery Channel, Canal D, TVNZ, Seven Network, Holland Media Group, and National Geographic Channel to take Mayday in 144 countries and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards. In 2010, Sharon Zupancic won a Gemini Award for her work on the season-seven episode, "Lockerbie Disaster", that depicts the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. A University of New South Wales senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis's results indicated using the strategy had "a positive effect on learning outcomes" for prospective pilots.[3]
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- ^ Daingerfield, Michael (14 November 2022). "Michael Daingerfield – Voice Over". Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
- ^ "Original Show – Mayday: Air Disaster | The Weather Channel Television Network". weathergroup.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ Lewis, Raymond (December 2009). "Air Crash Investigators – comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation to enhance student learning" (PDF). 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 6–9 December 2009: Engineering the Curriculum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011.