A United Airlines flight bound for Germany declared "mayday, mayday, mayday" with an engine failure last month, forcing the jet to hastily retreat to Washington, D.C., tower recordings and the carrier ...

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,” ...

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 ...

A United Airlines pilot issued a mayday distress call after the Boeing 787 he was flying experienced engine failure shortly after taking off from Washington’s Dulles airport for Munich on July 25, ...