Cineflix started production on , with a CDN $ 2.5 million budget . Cineflix secured deals with France 5 , the Discovery Channel , Canal D , TVNZ , the Seven Network , the Holland Media Group , and the National Geographic Channel to take Mayday in 144 countries and 26 languages . The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards . Sharon Zupancic won a Gemini Award for her work on the '' Mayday '' episode , " Lockerbie Disaster " . A UNSW senior lecturer , Raymond Lewis , conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series . Lewis 's results indicated using the strategy had " a positive effect on learning outcomes . " The series features re-enactments , interviews , eyewitness testimony , computer-generated imagery , and , in nearly all of the episodes , voice actor readings of cockpit voice recorder transcripts to reconstruct the sequence of events to the audiences . Several passengers and crew members ( whether they survived the incident or not ) are picked and actors/actresses play the role of those passengers and crews throughout the flight , usually starting from boarding of the flight . The flight routines in the air traffic control , cockpit , and cabin are recreated on screen starting from departure up to the moment of the emergency . At the moment of the emergency , external views of the aircraft from different angles are recreated to show the effect and what had happened to the aircraft . The responses and reactions of the passengers , crews , and air traffic control personnel leading up to the eventual crash or emergency landing are then recreated . All the scenes in cockpit and air traffic control centres are recreated using the actual script obtained from the cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft and other recordings made at the time
Lockerbie Disaster
Pan Am Flight 103
Mayday (Canadian TV series)