Air Crash Investigation

*Air Crash Investigation*
Air Crash Investigation
Also known as	Air Crash Investigation; Air Emergency (National Geographic Channel, U.S.); Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel, U.S.); Mayday: Air Disaster (Weather Channel, U.S.);
Genre	Documentary; Docudrama;
Created by	André Barro
Narrated by	Stephen Bogaert for Canada and the U.S.; Bill Ratner for the U.S. (Smithsonian Channel); Jonathan Aris for Australia, Asia and Europe; David Bamber (Season one narrator for Channel Five in the United Kingdom only; Ángel Mujica (from season 15 to 18 in Latin America);
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	24
No. of episodes	210 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Cineflix Productions
Original release
Network	Discovery Channel Canada
Release	3 September 2003 –; present

Air Crash Investigation (or just Mayday in some countries) is a Canadian documentary television program examining air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters.^[1]

Throughout the episodes, the victims or relatives and friends of the victims are interviewed adding more information about the cases with their relatives. Additionally, retired aviation experts, pilots and researchers are interviewed about the tests and explain how these emergencies occurred and how they could have been prevented.

Episodes

Seasons^[2]	Episodes	Originally aired
Seasons^[2]	Episodes	First aired	Last aired
1	6	September 3, 2003 (2003-09-03)	October 22, 2003 (2003-10-22)
2	6	January 23, 2005 (2005-01-23)	February 27, 2005 (2005-02-27)
3	13	September 14, 2005 (2005-09-14)	December 7, 2005 (2005-12-07)
4	10	April 15, 2007 (2007-04-15)	June 17, 2007 (2007-06-17)
5	10	April 9, 2008 (2008-04-09)	June 11, 2008 (2008-06-11)
6	3	December 16, 2007 (2007-12-16)	March 2, 2008 (2008-03-02)
7	8	November 4, 2009 (2009-11-04)	December 17, 2009 (2009-12-17)
8	2	June 10, 2009 (2009-06-10)	June 17, 2009 (2009-06-17)
9	8	September 8, 2010 (2010-09-08)	October 27, 2010 (2010-10-27)
10	6	February 27, 2011 (2011-02-27)	March 28, 2011 (2011-03-28)
11	13	August 12, 2011 (2011-08-12)	April 13, 2012 (2012-04-13)
12	13	August 3, 2012 (2012-08-03)	April 15, 2013 (2013-04-15)
13	11	December 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)	May 9, 2014 (2014-05-09)
14	11	January 5, 2015 (2015-01-05)	March 2, 2015 (2015-03-02)
15	10	January 4, 2016 (2016-01-04)	February 17, 2016 (2016-02-17)
16	10	June 7, 2016 (2016-06-07)	February 13, 2017 (2017-02-13)
17	10	February 20, 2017 (2017-02-20)	October 3, 2017 (2017-10-03)
18	10	February 13, 2018 (2018-02-13)	July 4, 2018 (2018-07-04)
19	10	January 2, 2019 (2019-01-02)	March 11, 2019 (2019-03-11)
20	10	January 9, 2020 (2020-01-09)^[3]	March 12, 2020 (2020-03-12)
21	10	April 4, 2021 (2021-04-04)	June 6, 2021 (2021-06-06)
22	10	January 3, 2022 (2022-01-03)	February 12, 2022 (2022-02-12)
23	10	January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03)	March 7, 2023 (2023-03-07)
24	10	February 11, 2024 (2024-02-11)	April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14)
25	11	February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)^[4]	May 26, 2025 (2025-05-26)

Notes

↑ The UK broadcast of season one was hosted on Channel Five and narrated by David Bamber

References

↑ Lewis, Raymond (December 2009). "Air Crash Investigators — comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation to enhance student learning" (PDF). 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 6-9 December 2009: Engineering the Curriculum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011.
↑ "Mayday: Air Disaster - Program Overview". Cineflix Rights. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
↑ "Air Crash Investigation | National Geographic". www.nationalgeographic.com.au. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
↑ TV, NatGeo. "National Geographic - Lentoturmatutkinta". www.natgeotv.com.

[1] The UK broadcast of season one was hosted on Channel Five and narrated by David Bamber

[teaching_study-2] Lewis, Raymond (December 2009). "Air Crash Investigators — comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation to enhance student learning" (PDF). 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 6-9 December 2009: Engineering the Curriculum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011.

[Cineflix_Mayday-3] "Mayday: Air Disaster - Program Overview". Cineflix Rights. Retrieved March 7, 2019.

[4] "Air Crash Investigation | National Geographic". www.nationalgeographic.com.au. Retrieved December 13, 2019.

[finland-5] TV, NatGeo. "National Geographic - Lentoturmatutkinta". www.natgeotv.com.

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