Mayday: Season 23
Season 23 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mayday Season 22.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 23 Progress Shield
Deadly Exchange (Corporate Airlines Flight 5966)
Feb 13, 2023 · 42 min
Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 appears out of the clouds and crashes into trees on approach to Kirksville, Missouri. The twin-engine turboprop plane catches fire just over a kilome
Mixed Signals (Independent Air Flight 1851)
Feb 20, 2023 · 42 min
Independent Air Flight 1851 is en route from Italy to the Dominican Republic and is scheduled to refuel on a Portuguese island. For some reason, a Boeing 707 crashes into a mountai
Pressure Point (Japan Airlines Flight 123)
Feb 6, 2023
Just moments after takeoff, Japan Airlines Flight 123 experiences two explosions. The pilot is having trouble keeping the damaged Boeing 747 in the air. It plunges into the mountai
Power Play (PNG Flight 1600)
Feb 27, 2023
After losing both engines, a turboprop crashes in Papua New Guinea and investigators soon uncover a deadly flaw in an aircraft used around the world.
Control Catastrophe (Air Astana Flight 1388)
Mar 6, 2023
A Kazakh crew manage to land an uncontrollable aircraft and investigators must determine how a freshly-serviced plane was released with a fatal flaw.
Cockpit Catastrophe (Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633)
Mar 13, 2023 · 42 min
When the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines 8633 explodes, the crew somehow battles gale-force winds and oxygen deprivation to safely land the plane.
Dream Flight Disaster (Sydney Seaplanes DHC-2 Crash)
Mar 20, 2023 · 60 min
When a UK billionaire and his family die in an Australian seaplane crash, investigators uncover a minor maintenance issue with deadly consequences.
Deadly Deception (Balkan Bulgarian Flight 013)
Mar 27, 2023 · 55 min
The plan to save a Bulgarian airliner hinges on convincing the violent hijackers that their demands have been met before the plane runs out of fuel.
Delivery to Disaster (Atlas Air Flight 3591)
Apr 3, 2023 · 50 min
An Amazon cargo plane nosedives into a swamp outside Houston, the evidence eventually leads investigators to a pilot with a long history of failures.
Mystery Over the Mediterranean (EgyptAir Flight 804)
Apr 10, 2023 · 42 min
EgyptAir flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean on its way from Paris to Cairo. Evidence initially suggests that the plane caught fire, but Egyptian authorities later blame the