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United Airlines Flight 108 returned safely to Dulles after declaring a mayday due to engine failure. All 219 passengers were ...
Anxiety-inducing audio captured a United Airlines pilot calling “Mayday” when one of its engines failed moments after taking ...
United Flight 108 had just taken off for its journey to Munich at around 6 p.m. As the Boeing 787 was ascending to 10,000 ...
The Boeing 787, carrying 219 passengers and 11 crew members, encountered trouble as it ascended to 10,000 feet. The pilots ...
A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was forced to make an emergency landing on July 25 after one of its engines failed ...
The Munich-bound flight from Washington Dulles Airport landed safely after more than 30 minutes in the air on July 25 ...
A PILOT flying off Australia with his partner and their dog reportedly failed to contact authorities before their plane disappeared. The two-seater aircraft took off from George Town in Northern ...
One person injured after a ferry boat hit rocks in the water just off the coast of West Vancouver late Sunday morning had to ...
Recognize a mayday situation; Properly declare a mayday; Properly communicate via portable radio and verbal transmission; Identify the 10 self-survival steps that firefighters must follow when ...
Mayday training is often something departments do a couple times a year, or less. The Tulsa Fire Department found that repeated mayday training identified specific problems with radio operations ...
The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia killing all but six of the people on board told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel just moments before the disaster. An audio recording of ...
Mayday operations must be performed in the context of these failures. The volatility and uncertainty of these failures can cascade into an extremely dangerous rapid-intervention response.