In the summer of 2021, a mayday call went out from the captain aboard a fishing vessel who needed Narcan to help save a life due to an overdose on board. There happened to be another vessel in the ...

An Air India Boeing7878 (Flight AI171), bound for London with 242 souls, issued a Mayday call shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad on Thursday. The plane crashed near the airport, plummeting into ...

Do you know the difference between pan-pan vs. mayday, what a sécurité call is, and how marine distress calls work in general? A VHF radio is the best, most reliable way to call for help when aboard a ...

Conceived as a radio distress signal for airplane pilots and ship captains, “mayday” (the phonetic equivalent of “m’aidez,” the French word for “help me”) was officially adopted by the United States ...

Delhi: The word, mayday, was invented by Fredrick Stanley Mockford, a British senior officer radio in charge at Croydon Airport in the United Kingdom in 1923. It replaced the Morse code S.O.S, which ...

Is there a difference between a mayday and urgent message? The answer is, yes, there should be. Research from a number of departments around the country on this subject shows that there are different ...

A United Airlines pilot issued a mayday distress call after the Boeing 787 he was flying experienced engine failure shortly after taking off from Washington’s Dulles airport for Munich on July 25, ...