MayDay: The International Distress Call
- Mayday is a derivative of the French word m'aider which means “Help me”, formally adopted by the U.S. as an official distress signal in 1927.
- Airplane pilots, boat captains and emergency response personnel use the ‘MayDay’ distress code.
- The signal started after World War I, when the normal SOS code that worked well in morse code, sounded confusing on the radio, as it could be misheard.
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