---
title: "Mayday Air Disaster"
country: "United Kingdom"
country_code: "GB"
category: "General Broadcast"
language: "English"
stream_type: "HLS"
canonical_url: "https://www.archytele.com/live/united-kingdom/mayday-air-disaster"
last_checked: "2026-11-08T12:00:50+00:00"
---

# Mayday Air Disaster — Live Television Broadcast Dossier

> **Archytele Living Vault Canonical Channel Record**: https://www.archytele.com/live/united-kingdom/mayday-air-disaster

## Core Broadcast Metadata

- **Broadcasting Nation**: United Kingdom (GB)
- **Primary Language**: English
- **Broadcast Genre**: General Broadcast
- **Distribution Protocol**: HLS
- **Stream Signal Verification**: Verified active from origin probe 4h ago.

## 12-Hour Broadcast Schedule (EPG)

- **16:22–17:26 UTC**: Mayday Air Disaster — At the height of thunderstorm season in Arkansas, American Airlines 1420 ends in disaster. The MD80 ploughs off a wet runway down an embankment and breaks apart, killing 11 people.
- **17:26–18:30 UTC**: Mayday Air Disaster — The pilot of Swissair Flight 111 smells smoke in the cockpit. Minutes later fire and complete electrical failure cause the MD11 to crash into the Atlantic killing all 229 passengers and crew on board.
- **18:30–19:30 UTC**: Mayday Air Disaster — Aeroperu Flight 603 bound from Lima, Peru to Santiago, Chile shows how a simple error and a lack of flight crew training can bring a giant, complex airliner to a deadly end.
- **19:30–20:30 UTC**: Mayday Air Disaster — Shortly after Air Alaska Flight 261 takes off, the stabilizer malfunctions. The pilots struggle to control the plane and it dives into the ocean. The eighty-eight passengers and crew on board die.