September 3, 2003 - Present
Mayday, entitled Air Crash Investigation in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, India, other Asian countries, and some European countries, and Air Emergency, Air Disasters, and Mayday: Air Disaster in the United States, 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. In addition, survivors, aviation experts, retired pilots, and crash investigators are interviewed, to explain how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, and how they might have been prevented.
Cineflix started production on August 13, 2002, with a C$2.5 million budget. In Canada itself, the program premiered on Discovery Channel Canada on September 3, 2003. Cineflix also secured deals with France 5, Discovery Channel, Canal D, TVNZ, Seven Network, Holland Media Group, and National Geographic Channel to take Mayday in 144 countries, and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics, and was nominated for a number of awards. In 2010, Sharon Zupancic won a Gemini Award for her work on the season-seven episode, "Lockerbie Disaster", that depicts the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. A University of New South Wales senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis's results indicated using the strategy had "a positive effect on learning outcomes" for prospective pilots.
Sound Effects Used
- Hollywoodedge, Crash Car Flip Imp Rol PE111501
- Hollywoodedge, Crash Train Car Mix PE111601
- Hollywoodedge, Metal Creaks Machine FS015801
- Hollywoodedge, Metal Creaks Machine FS015802
- Hollywoodedge, Train Brake Dist High PE820401 (?)
- Sound Ideas, CRASH - HEAVY TUMBLING CRASH (Series 6000)
- Sound Ideas, FOOTSTEPS, BOOT - SHORT WALK AND SHUFFLE IN BOOTS ON CONCRETE/SoundDogs, Feet, Walk, Boots, Cement, Scuff
- Sound Ideas, LEVERS / RATCHETS LEVER, LARGE: CONTROL FOR ELECTRIC CRANE, REVERBERANT, THROW WITH POSITION CLICKS
- Sound Ideas, SCREAM - FEMALE, LONG, HUMAN, HORROR 02
- Sound Ideas, SCREAM - FEMALE, LONG, HUMAN, HORROR 03
- Sound Ideas, SCREAM - FEMALE, LONG, HUMAN, HORROR 04
- Sound Ideas, SCREAM - MALE, LONG, HUMAN, HORROR 02 (Heard starting Season 11.)
- Sound Ideas, SIREN - 'WAIL' SIREN, POLICE, AMBULANCE, FIRE TRUCK 01 (?)
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, METAL - MULTIPLE HEAVY METAL SQUEAKS AND SCRAPES
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, METAL - LARGE METAL OBJECT ROLLING, SCI FI
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, CRASH - TRAIN, CRASHES, EXPLODES, DIGIFFECTS
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, DIESEL - DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE: IDLE AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, DIESEL - DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE: RING BELL AND SOUND HORN
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, DIESEL - DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE: START UP, IDLE WITH REVS, SHUT OFF WITH LONG WIND DOWN
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, FREIGHT - CROSSING BELLS, PASS BY WITH HORN
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, FREIGHT - FREIGHT TRAIN: APPROACH AND PASS BY CLOSE, LOUD WHEEL CLACKING
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, FREIGHT - FREIGHT TRAIN: SHORT, FAST PASS BY, CLOSE UP
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, HORN - DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE: SOUND HORN, LONG
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, PASSENGER - EXTERNAL: APPROACH, PASS BY LEFT TO RIGHT, FAST SPEED
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, PASSENGER - EXTERNAL: APPROACH, PASS BY LEFT TO RIGHT, VERY FAST
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, PASSENGER - SHORT COMMUTER TRAIN: PASS BY, ENGINE AT FRONT
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, RAILYARD - TRAIN, SWITCHYARD, CARS BEING COUPLED, METAL CRASH, VERSION 2, DIGIFFECTS (Edited; heard once in "Head On Collision", when Canadian National train #413's caboose comes to a stop after the crash.)
- Unknown Sound Effects Library, Train Wheels
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