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Yes! I binge watched Mayday. Very well done documentary with only a minimum of dramatization, you do get some "Get this into the lab!" type acting and shoop shoop edits but not much. Looking into the events they are good about getting like 90% of the info. They have the actors reading straight from the CVR records. It really does point out how the vast majority of accidents require a lot of star all lining up. It also points out how important thorough maintenance is. You've got things failing in ways you'd never expect if they had only, say, put some grease on a single screw. The really frustrating ones are where the crew ignore their instruments thinking they (the pilot) must be right or the crew sit and watch the pilot fuck up without intervening. The cash in Portland OR where the pilot obsessed over a landing gear light and ignored that they were running out of fuel is a case in point.
The most disturbing ones are where a pilot likely suicided and took all the innocent people with him or someone attacked the crew. Insanely selfish a-holes.
After watching all of the episodes, some repeatedly, I think I could assist a crew in a crisis now.