A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was forced to make an emergency landing on July 25 after one of its engines failed shortly after takeoff from Washington Dulles International Airport. Flight ...

A United Airlines flight from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to Munich was forced to return to the airport ...

A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner declared a Mayday shortly after takeoff from Washington due to a left engine ...

Pilots on a United Airlines flight declared ‘MAYDAY’ shortly after taking off from Washington Dulles International Airport ...

A Munich-bound United Airlines flight faced a mid-air emergency on Friday (July 25), declaring a ‘Mayday’ call shortly after ...

A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 flight to Munich declared an emergency after left engine failure, safely dumping fuel for over ...

The pilot informed ATC that the aircraft was dumping fuel at 6,000 feet while flying northwest. ATC then instructed the plane ...

United Airlines Flight UA108, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner en route from Washington Dulles to Munich, declared ‘Mayday’ shortly ...

They then requested permission for fuel dumping while maintaining the required altitude. ATC guided the pilots to a safe zone ...

Mayday training is often something departments do a couple times a year, or less. The Tulsa Fire Department found that repeated mayday training identified specific problems with radio operations ...

Mayday operations must be performed in the context of these failures. The volatility and uncertainty of these failures can cascade into an extremely dangerous rapid-intervention response.

The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia killing all but six of the people on board told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel just moments before the disaster. An audio recording of ...