A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was forced to make an emergency landing on July 25 after one of its engines failed ...

The Boeing 787, carrying 219 passengers and 11 crew members, encountered trouble as it ascended to 10,000 feet. The pilots ...

The Munich-bound flight from Washington Dulles Airport landed safely after more than 30 minutes in the air on July 25 ...

Flight UA108, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, had departed from Washington Dulles on July 25 for Munich when the crew reported a ...

Fire Platoon Chief Mike Hall says in over thirty years fighting fires in St. John's, he had never had a mayday, or downed ...

'Phone karu...': How PM Modi reacted to Akhilesh Yadav's 'Op Mahadev' remark ...

Recognize a mayday situation; Properly declare a mayday; Properly communicate via portable radio and verbal transmission; Identify the 10 self-survival steps that firefighters must follow when ...

Mayday parameters Use of the word mayday identifies that a firefighter/fire officer became lost, trapped or seriously injured or exhausted his/her breathing air at the scene of an emergency incident.

Mayday operations must be performed in the context of these failures. The volatility and uncertainty of these failures can cascade into an extremely dangerous rapid-intervention response.

Mayday training is often something departments do a couple times a year, or less. The Tulsa Fire Department found that repeated mayday training identified specific problems with radio operations ...

The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia killing all but six of the people on board told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel just moments before the disaster. An audio recording of ...