Why Do We Say MAYDAY in an Emergency? (Origins of Mayday Explained)

Mayday is the word used around the world to make a distress call via radio communications. … It was the idea of Frederick Mockford, who was a senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London. He came up with the idea for “mayday” because it sounded like the French word m’aider, which means “help me.”

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