What day is MayDay and what does it really mean?
Mayday (distress signal) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Mayday call might result in the activation of a lifeboat such as this Severn class lifeboatMayday is an emergency code word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez m’aider, or m’aidez, meaning ‘(you) come help me’.[1] It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency by many groups, such as police forces, pilots, firefighters, and transportation organisations. The call is always given three times in a row (‘mayday-mayday-mayday’) to prevent mistaking it for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual Mayday call from a message about a mayday call. http://en.wikipedia.
