MayDay Based On Real Flight Incident

Well viewers who were speculating about inspiration of upcoming Ajay and Amitabh starer MayDay, this news might make speculations end, as according to latest development MayDay is based on real flight incident between Doha-Kochi that took place seven years back in 2015.

Upcoming project will showcase story of 2015 episode of a Jet Airways Doha-Kochi flight that had a close shave due to poor visibility in which Jet Airways flight 9W 555 carrying 141 passengers and eight crew members on board. Flight was unable to land at Kochi due to poor visibility than it was diverted to Trivandrum where the visibility was equally poor, prompting the pilots to initiate a May Day call. After three failed attempts, the plane landed at Trivandrum airport with only 250 kg of fuel left, although some reports say it had around 350 kg of fuel left. However, the minimum a Boeing 737 aircraft should have as fuel reserve is about 1500 kg. 

According to sources close to protect
“The incident made news at that point but was soon forgotten. Hence, audiences would be in for a surprise when they’ll see MayDay and realize that it’s inspired from a shocking, true incident. Also, the papers only reported about the incident but didn’t follow up with the case. So one hardly knows what happened later on. Taking into consideration that people should know real facts of incident decided to make MayDay.