MAYDAY!
Mayday… MAYDAY!
What is mayday? It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries, local organizations such as firefighters, police forces, and transportation organizations also use the term. The convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration ("Mayday mayday mayday") to prevent it from being mistaken for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual mayday call from a message about a mayday call.
Where did the term mayday come from? History of the term...
The "mayday" procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, England. He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency.[2][3] Since much of the air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the term "mayday", the phonetic equivalent of the French m'aidez ("help me") or m'aider (a short form of venez m'aider, "come [and] help me").[4][5] The term is unrelated to the holiday May Day.
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