Voorbeelden van Mayday

• If even this rescue fails, mayday, mayday.

• Those figures for mayday and other emergency calls are small, but one serious crash through lack of fuel could be a major disaster.

• When a ship sinks, it sends out mayday signals to boats in the vicinity.

• It is the origin of the cry for aid in distress—"mayday, mayday, mayday" —adopted as the international call.

• There is seldom time to broadcast a mayday message for long enough to provide a reliable radio fix for search and rescue agencies if the vessel sinks.

• She was unable to restart them but did not make a mayday call.

• The captain ordered the alarms to be activated, told everyone to abandon ship, and sent out a mayday request.

• The distress beacon was sent five minutes after the mayday call.