
TV-14Synopsis
Watch Mayday (2003) Season 20 online on iFILM — ten episodes of the documentary series that takes real crashes apart, recorder by recorder. The twentieth run gathers cases from every continent and works backward from the wreckage to the cause.
Few of these have an obvious answer. A blast tears through a Uni Air jet over Taiwan, and the truth turns up in an overhead locker. Heavy fog puts two Northwest planes on the same runway. A Pakistani airliner goes down in the Himalayas with its key recorder useless. A Cougar helicopter full of oil workers drops into the sea off Newfoundland. The season's hardest hour is LAM Mozambique, where the cause was never in the machine at all.
What sets Season 20 apart is restraint — the work leans on transcripts and expert interviews, not spectacle. It rewards viewers who want the mechanics of a failure rather than the crash itself. Stream Mayday Season 20 online on iFILM.
10 episodes
S20·E1Explosive Touchdown
(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.
S20·E2Taxiway Turmoil
(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.
S20·E3Kathmandu Descent
(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.
S20·E4Icy Descent
(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.
S20·E5Atlantic Ditching
(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.
S20·E6Impossible Pitch
(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.
S20·E7No Warning
(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.
S20·E8Cockpit Killer
(LAM Mozambique Flight 470) When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a chilling conclusion.
S20·E9Stormy Cockpit
(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.
S20·E10Runway Breakup
(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.
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