| I bit my lip, as surely it can't be good form to do a mayday, even if it's supposedly off any monitored channel. |
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| In fact, the helicopter was on site 52 minutes after the initial mayday call. |
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| Also like the Air France disaster, the pilots of AirAsia had no time to issue a mayday call. |
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| Within moments of the mayday call, the citizens of Hartley Bay, a first nations community, sprang into action. |
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| A single mayday call was heard on the Brantford Unicom frequency. |
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| Rescue helicopters and coastguards raced to the scene as the crew sent out a mayday alert before abandoning ship. |
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| A TOTAL of 117 migrants have been rescued off the western Greek island of Zante after their boat issued a mayday call. |
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| The leader of the 16 kayakers put out two mayday alerts on a VHF radio at 4pm after one of the party capsized. |
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| Since the Cessna does not have a flight-data recorder, investigators will interview the air-traffic controller who heard Brand's mayday calls. |
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| Air accident investigators have said that the helicopter made a vertical descent on to the venue, which was packed with around 100 people, and that the pilot made no mayday call. |
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| I think I attempted to make a mayday call using the train radio. |
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| Often it's required to go to the general area where the last mayday perhaps was reported and from there commence search operations, prior to the precise location of that incident. |
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| With their radio still working the men were able to send out a Mayday signal which was relayed to air traffic control at Blackpool airport. |
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| Mayday was a raucous and fun time, electing a Queen of the May from the eligible young women of the village, to rule the crops until harvest. |
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| Each total is almost twice the entire number of anti-capitalists who turned up to the London Mayday event. |
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| The warship received a Mayday saying the ship had exploded following a fire and was sinking off the coast of Malta in severe weather conditions. |
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| The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am. |
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| He sent out a Mayday signal when the vessel began to take water shortly before darkness fell. |
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| The men sent a Mayday radio message at about 11 am and made a classic ditch landing south of St Martin's Island. |
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| To send armed forces onboard a civil ship sending out Mayday signals is piracy. |
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| It answered a midnight Mayday from a yacht in distress and altered course to make a mercy dash off the Dorset coast. |
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| The ship sent out the Mayday signal early yesterday morning when it was about 33 nautical miles away. |
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| I screamed a Mayday call and hoped I had made the right impression to whomever was listening. |
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| Houle also suggested to higher authorities that downed aircrews use the term Mayday instead of just talking on the radio. |
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| Finally, with knee-deep water in the cabin 200 miles from Bermuda, he issued a Mayday call. |
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| The victim, a 17-year-old boy, was taken to Mayday Hospital after he was knifed while sitting at a bus stop in Beulah Hill last Friday. |
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| A similar failure of a life raft was reported in a Mayday incident last year in the North Channel off the north Antrim coast. |
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| A modern factory fishing vessel vanished without sending a Mayday and no survivors were picked up. |
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| It also cites the case of a container ship which ignored a Mayday call off the North Queensland coast. |
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| The radios will still transmit Mayday signals and vessel identification data but won't send GPS coordinates. |
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| The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat. |
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| Some of them, like a guy directing traffic atop stilts at one of last Monday's Mayday demos, prefer to wear a pink bunny suit. |
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| Aberdeen coastguards broadcast a Mayday relay message to all vessels in the area and the vessel Dea Mariner responded and steamed to the area. |
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| The acoustic replaces the electric and there is no electro-pop numbers like Mayday to take the album on a different tangent. |
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| A fishing trawler off the Outer Hebrides broadcast a Mayday after their engine room and fish hold flooded. |
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| The question of whether they'd actually pull off the ambitious Mayday was part of the appeal. |
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| The first happened before she reached her station, when a 79-year-old yachtsman put out a Mayday as he had been badly cut and was losing a lot of blood. |
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| The crew abandoned ship at 6.30 am after issuing a Mayday call saying their ship was sinking in the Bristol Channel, around 35 miles south west of the Pembrokeshire coast. |
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| The skipper was experienced and had faced worse seas before and so sudden was the calamity which overwhelmed him that he was unable to send out a Mayday call. |
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| Another serious challenge to the Zombie Theory is the absence of any Mayday call from the pilots. |
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| The Mayday Trust is opening a six-bed home in Cape Road for homeless people, or those at risk of becoming homeless. |
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| By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen. |
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| The Black Prince Procession is a Mayday custom in the villages of Millbrook, Kingsand and Cawsand. |
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| This event is commemorated by a march organised by the Derby Trades Union Council annually on the weekend before MayDay. |
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| The vessel sank less than two hours after the Mayday call went out. |
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| However, such dances are performed every Mayday around the permanent Maypole at Offenham, in Worcestershire. |
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| On every first Monday in May, Penrith holds its Mayday Carnival. |
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