To make sure their distress signal is understood and not confused with other transmissions, pilots say "Mayday" three times. This practice dates back to the early days of radio, when single calls ...

Call it Ryanairing on empty. A Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing after coming within minutes of running out of fuel in flight. “Everything was fine until we started our descent,” ...

This dramatic footage captures the moment a tanker crew abandoned ship following a collision with a cargo vessel. A mayday call was made after the MV Stena Immaculate oil tanker was struck by the ...