March 27, 1977. At 2pm in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands where a terrible tragedy was about to unfold.
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On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead.
To explain how it happened, Crash of the Century reconstructs the moments leading up to this devastating event.
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Jesus is Lord in your heart
I survived mixed with mayday……. LOVE IT!
thats why you go to Lanzarote not Tenerife
Was the Gran Canaria airport closed by ETA separatists? My remaining question is: What problem was there with just waiting for visibility? Why rush things? And a separate question: Was Tenerife the ONLY available place for all those planes to divert? Anything on the African continent? I suppose I have to find the final reports by Spain and Netherlands.
All that killing because of that captain of klm flight.
Abel mutua mkurungenzi brought me to watch this story 🇰🇪
This is the ultimate case of lots of little things going wrong and adding up to one major catastrophe, a nightmare blueprint for disaster. RIP, all victims of this tragedy.
The copilots of KLM were doing their job at best. I feel bad that their leader was a maniac.
Isn’t it a coincidence that the bomber got the same roses as the passneger in Panam 1736 I think the bomber is the passengers friend
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Between this and the 2017 episode on Mayday, this has better actors but the 2017 episode has better graphics and an overall picture of the situation.
From this chase, CRM is important in any flight, doesn't care how Senior you are, you still learn your teamwork !!! 🤬
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Common Van Zanten W.
How ironic that a safety rule, crew time limits, incentivized rushing the departure when it wasn’t safe.
I was similarly on a flight that had already been delayed and had a crew near their limits such that further delay would result in the flight having to be canceled. After we had pushed back from the gate, a lady onboard insisted on using the lavatory, and we were thus left waiting for the lady to return to her seat so the plane could take off. After a few minutes of calling out over the PA system that the lady needed to return to her seat, the pilots made the decision to go ahead and takeoff, presumably to avoid having to go back to the gate and deplane everybody. I was very amused by the situation.
The captain so rude
Breaking bad ref?
Out of all the different circumstances that contributed to this horrific accident, I still contend that the klm pilot is the biggest component had he just waited this would not be in the history books. I always hear Pilots say "you don't have to be anywhere" he clearly broke that rule
So over flying an hour is apparently worse than taking off on a runway, which is covered in heavy fog, of a congested airport, without clearance
The survivors are blessed, wow
This wouldn't have happened if the Planes are told to take off from runway 12
Fun fact: you are here because of Breaking Bad
54:46 あのバカ来やがった！！
@Rugbykickergoat2009: How did everyone from klm die it looks safer in that one
Why were they in such a hurry? They were so close to their destinations. Next island, half an hour. I would never let 2 planes follow each other,on such small airport,in such weather.
RIP
To the passengers and crew of KLM Flight 4805 and to the 335 passengers and crew of Pan Am Flight 1736
The KLM asked for Van Zanten to lead the investigation, but that was of course not possible… Arrogant ignorant prick.
The captain going "quiero parto" at around 8:30 had me CACKLING. did he want to translate "party" into spanish??? that's an unfortunate guess
This is what we call the butterfly effect. Disaster can happen any time
The Dutch trying to blame the PanAm pilots is such gross politics. It’s obvious there was a hand full of problems, but ultimately it is the KLM’s captains fault. Taking off with zero clearance was the ultimate cause of this tragedy.