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  1. 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.

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  3. This show is known as Air Disasters in the US and Mayday in Canada but is called Aircrash Investigation in Australia and parts of Europe. The Narrators however are different in the two different versions.

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  4. Sep 4, 2003 · On 8 February 1986, a Via Rail passenger train and a 118-car Canadian National Railway freight train collide, killing 23 people. The freight train crew did not stop at a red railway signal on a section of a passing loop, possibly because they were asleep.

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  5. Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

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    The series features re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, and in nearly all of the episodes, cockpit voice recordings to reconstruct the sequence of events to the audiences. Several passengers and crew members (whether they survived the incident or not) are picked and actors/actresses play the role of those pa...

    Cineflix started production for Mayday on 13 August 2002, with a CDN$2.5 million budget, after Channel Five commissioned the six-part one-hour series. To keep the costs down most of the production was kept at Cineflix's Toronto offices in Toronto, Canada. While in production the series was sold to France 5, Discovery Channel and Canal D. On 2 June ...

    As ofAugust 2020, there are 180 episodes; including 5 episodes of Science of Disaster. There are also 2 seasons and 20 episodes of The Accident Files. Mayday also has one special Spin-off episode.

    The series has been received well by critics. Paul Mavis from DVDTalk recommends Mayday as "Harrowing and surprisingly emotional" and continues with "Never exploitive, Maydaynot only ratchets up the suspense with its well-done action scenes, it validates them by showing us the human side of these horrific air disasters." Franck Tabouring from DVD V...

    Genre: Documentary, Docudrama
    Created by: Bernard Vaillot, André Barro and Greg Gransden
    Narrated by: Stephen Bogaert (Canada & USA), Jonathan Aris (Australia, Asia & UK)
    No. of seasons: 20 (In production)
  6. This long-running TV series reconstructs major real-life air disasters and their implications for air safety. Each episode reconstructs of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

  7. Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

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