Exempel på 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.

• Mayday teams with her father but does not reveal her identity to him, despite desperately wanting to, for fear it may damage the timeline.

• Mayday signals must only be used where there is grave and imminent danger to life.

• Channel 16 is used for broadcasting distress calls such as mayday, pan-pan, securite or other urgent safety messages.

• A mayday signal was put out by the captain but rough seas produced by the storm hampered rescue efforts.

• He issues a mayday distress signal and commands a hard left turn, but it is too late.

• Water entered the engine department, and a mayday was sent at 16:30.

• In aviation any air traffic controller or pilot who knows of an emergency may relay the mayday.