Moments before the crash, the pilot issued a Mayday call to Air Traffic Control (ATC), indicating a critical emergency ...

To make sure their distress signal is understood and not confused with other transmissions, pilots say "Mayday" three times. This practice dates back to the early days of radio, when single calls ...

PIA spokesman Danyal Gilani said the aircraft's black box has been recovered but "it will take time to ascertain a reason of the crash". The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight smashed into a ...

A British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency return to Sydney Airport following a mayday call from its pilot. Flight BA16 from Sydney to Singapore made a U-turn following “reports of a ...

Pilots struggled to see the runway during a second landing attempt at Baramati before a fatal crash that killed Maharashtra ...

A British Airways flight has been forced to make an emergency landing in Sydney after the pilot made an urgent mayday call. The flight was heading to Singapore before a distress call over Orange in ...

A mayday call was made in the skies above Darwin as a Cessna 210 briefly lost engine power during a night circuit training ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Qantas flight from Sydney landed safely in New Zealand on Friday after the pilots made a mayday call to report a potential fire in the cargo hold. Emergency services ...