Mayday is an expression used internationally in the radiotelephonic communications to announce that a plane or boat is unweaves of it. Its use is prescribed since the “ International Radio operator Telegraph Convention ” of 1927. The word is a voluntary deformation anglophone sentence French E: come to help me ! .

History

The term was proposed by Frederick Stanley Mockford in 1923, whereas he was radio operator officer chief with the Aéroport of Croydon, close to London.

See too

Artiles connected

• Signals hazard warning
• Distress message

Other uses

• Mayday and Euromayday is precarious initiatives of employees who take place on May 1st to denounce the wage Précarité. The name of the initiative exploits the analogy between the call to the help and on May 1st.
• Mayday is a Canadian Televised series on the incidents and air crash (diffused with the the United States under the name Air Crash landing Investigations and in France under the name Dangers in the sky ).

External bond

• Lexicon of the nautical terms
• audio and video Recording of the radiophonic conversations of a pilot in difficulty, following the aspiration of a bird by an engine.

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