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  • So.....the firemen began to extinguish the KLM-plane before they started to extinguish the Pan Am? Even if everyone on the KLM probably died right away.

    Bad luck all the way.

  • Inconceivable that a pilot of Van Zanten's expertise and esteem would have acted in such a hasty and foolish manner, when so many lives were at stake.

  • @slaterms11 the panam didn't even had permission to enter That runway, while the klm didn't had permission to takeoff so it's a mistake by both pilots

    though the old communication of that airport was a reason too

  • @afcaj0od Both the Panam and the KLM had permission to back taxi down the runway. The majority of blame is with the KLM pilot for taking off without permission.

  • @afcaj0od and of course you're dutch.

  • @amfs23 Does That matter?

    Just tellin' what i've read and what i've seen on TV.

    Even the commentator said both airliners were wrong...deal with it and accept it.

  • A bullet train would be a good option instead of an airplane. At least the bullet train stays on earth. There would be incidents of course but the possibilities of surviving would be higher than in an airplane accident.

  • @34roberees A trans-Atlantic bullet train?

  • and all because KLM captain didn't wanna miss diner

  • @conurelover You cant tell what kind of person he was just from how he behaves in very stresfull situation that lasts only few hours or so. Everyone has bad days.

  • The one should of waited. Probably wouldn't of done much, but still who knows

  • VanZanten clearly acted rashly. That much is indisputable. Although his surname clearly indicates he WAS Dutch, his nationality has absolutely no bearing in this case.

  • that was true

  • what the fuck that old shit listen to a commentary

  • that's fucked up yo...

  • straight to the point...its the fault KLMs captain..he didnt follow the atc's instruction..

  • @conurelover There are people in the Netherlands who are not Dutch you know!

  • @conurelover You seem to have decided that I'm Dutch, bizarre. Clearly my opinion matters to you enough to keep returning with a barrage of maniacal abuse.

  • @conurelover You're like a nasty buzzing sound on the refrigerator. Have you considered psychiatric help for your Tourette's syndrome?

  • @conurelover

    Be quiet you noisy pillock.

  • @conurelover

    The crew were not "monitoring computers" because in 1977 cockpits did not have computers. A pilot in 1977 still did a lot of manual flying. Van Zanten could fly a plane better than you ever will. But he simply did not have enough patience. That does not mean he could not fly a plane.

  • the controlers tower they have to get fired

  • I feel sorry for the dead people that van Santen flew to heaven.

  • I feel sorry for the pan-am though... The fucking KLM captain HAD 2 not get clearance!

  • it was the ****ing ATC that caused it.

  • no one survived ? :(

  • the arrogance of the KLM pilot was the cause.

  • This was a shining example of the 'old cockpit mannerisms' between the pilot and copilot. The pilot was God up until officials heard what the pilot did on this flight. After this - that God syndrome thing was over!

    r!

  • I can't believe one mans impatience and asshole-dness caused all this. They should test airline pilots for COMPLETE PRICKAGE because that guy sounds like a total d**k..and anyone who's like that is an idiot because they've never listened to anyone before in their life and they "know it all".

    P.S. does this say THE BOMB is unavoidable? when it shows a timer-like device for a bomb? at like 2:00 into the video

  • Shana....they bought their tickets.

  • damn and all this disaster and those deaths just because van santen wanted to make dinner in time :(

  • Younster, you ass. "motherfucker pilot american,can;t wait,"

    He was Dutch, idiot.

  • ''ooooo yes''

  • fucking Cap, they should work together

  • captain KLM jawel angry end kill people,shit pilot

  • what he say, the panama on the way  oooo yes,then he kiled 583 pasengers,motherfucker pilot american,can;t wait,wayyyyy????

  • what he say,oooo yes,then he kiled 583 pasengers,motherfucker pilot american,can;t wait,wayyyyy????

  • it wasn't a fake i know it it was the failure of the KLM pilot the tower didn't gave him the clearence for takeoff 

  • rest in peace... god bless you...

  • Ok...i'm just sick of all this "its a fake" bullshit !!!

    I just travelled today and i was sitting next to one of the plane investigators who was in charge of making a report of this crash (reason i came to see this video).

    Half of what is said on the video is true...but the other half is just totally wrong. BUT this is NOT FAKE at all.

  • what was the speed when VanZanten started to rotate?? he didn't get onto 155 so fast and his experience should had told him that if his fuselage touches the ground his speed will decrease rapidly clerly he was impulsive in his action ... and that's what a pilot should avoid... first violates ATC clearance then tries to get up using half the runway... indeed the "star" pilot is living with the stars... i would had liked to see his bars stripped off if he was alive.. bloody arrogant fool

  • @sb100ify

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    Not so. 1st, Van Zanten did not deliberately violate ATC (if that's what you are thinking); 2nd, and more important, when you are suddenly confronted with a nightmare scenario and have seconds to act, you would do what any pilot would do - yank the thing into the air ASAP - you cannot expect under such circumstances calm cool perfection from anyone. I've never heard anyone else criticize Van Zanten on those grounds.

  • @sb100ify

    Why do you think that rotating when Van Zanten did so would slow the plane down? nearly 300 tons of aircraft and 4 engines of 40,000 of thrust and you think scraping a bit of aluminium on the runway will make any difference?.

    Alas... you have watched this made for tv docu-drama and assumed it is factual and accurate. In reality it contains far too much bullshit to count as a serious documentary, please don't take it too seriously. I doubt Van Zanten was anything like the asshole here

  • R.I.P those who lost there lives they shall all be remembered by those who watched this video and cared for them

  • Wait on what plane were there no survivors the klm or panam?

  • @WickedrWil - No survivors from the KLM plane.

  • one of the worst aviation accident, could have easly been avoided.....just one fuckin stupid pilot

  • @skat0r "just one f---in stupid pilot"

    I'd say ATC was more stupid. The KLM made an unintentional mistake. But the controllers deliberately and unmistakenly put those planes in a highly dangerous situation - totally 1000% wrong!!!!! The Spanish got off real easy IMO, because they controlled the investigation. You know, the stupid fuckin ATC was listening to a football match. Maybe that explains why he kept radioing the KLM with the wrong flight number. Now that really pisses me off.

  • @cchris874

    ya for sure the ATC was really bad, but the pilot shouldnt take off without clearance, its the law

  • @skat0r

    I hear you, but KLM thought he HAD the clearance = not intentional breaking law.

    Cheers

  • @cchris874 Controllers did nothing wrong

  • @Pvjinflight

    -

    That's a matter of debate.

  • @Pvjinflight

    That is indeed a matter of debate.

    The ground controller actually made mistakes that have been corrected in the documentary (Such as goofing the call signs. Read the transcripts...)

    This documentary doesn't blame the controllers at all. I wonder why not? Possibly because, being very much alive, they could take legal action?

    The KLM crew, on the other hand....

    Think about it.

  • @Pvjinflight They did ...but not voluntarily. What the controller (who had a portuguese accent) said was "runway cleared for take-off" and once on the runway the controller said "hold". However, due to a misunderstanding, the pilot heard "roll" and started accelerating.

  • @Absolutek3v The controller never said that. I suggest you read through the transcript on the official report (not hard to find online).

    He said "Standby for takeoff, I will call you". This was said after KLM had started its takeoff roll and anyway was obscured because the PANAM was broadcasting on the same frequency.

  • this pisses me off. of course it is pilot error. that KLM captain was a hasty asshole. R.I.P. everyone that died.

  • Stupid egoist the captain of the KLM. The fisrt officier had speak up for the second time when the captain started again. All thoses people died because one egoist.

    R.I.P. dear people :'(

  • people people

  • i hate flying

  • @SecretWarriorGirl

    don't hate flying just because of this though.

  • oh my got

  • is the Pam Am, the one that was getting off the run way that got hit by the other plane

    if so did the pilot of that flight survived?

  • I just saw this and I can't believe the negligence of the KLM pilot, is he still alive... If he is still right now then good luck to him.

  • @hellrobot all the Pan-Am's pilots survived; all 248 people onboard the KLM, including the pilots, were killed.

  • @917Porsche MOST of the pan-am flight crew survived; the flight crew includes the flight attendants, and four of them were killed.

  • that pilot is an a**hole i would throw him on the the run way if he tryd that with me

  • i would have punched that arrogant klm captain in the face when he was trying his second takeoff

  • would it be better if the klm got holes on the plane tires so it smaks and flys of trhe landing

  • ignorant KLM cant listen to shit and gets 583 lives people dead. R.I.P. everyone

  • whoah I watched this whole documentary with my parents....so sad..so tragic

  • I have been following this praticular crash since 1977.The weather and visibility was a major contributing factor in this disaster,but the entire blame goes to the KLM captain,van Zanten,for taking off without proper clearance!Plain and simple!As for the Pan Am flight crew,ALL survived the crash!

  • @917Porsche

    I don't agree the KLM should get entire blame because I don't accept the premise of the investigators. To have a system that certifies an alternate airport which then directs 600 human beings out onto a fog shrouded runway, lacking ground radar, then uses it for both for take offs and as a taxiway, is in serious need of re-examination, it seems to me. Even the Pan Am might have said: "Maybe I should wait for that KLM to take off before I venture on that runway."

  • its the KLM pilot fault .without ATC take off clearance we do not take off never

  • but the KLM captain, i say was the tipping point..he had all the rights to choose yet he chose to risk all the lives on board for he stupid damned time card..of course it cost in the end another 400 lives ......if we chase the cause of any event to its deepest roots it is impossible ...we can even blame the world for creating those terrorist..but i think we must examine who took the most irresponsible act that lead directly to disaster

  • my conclusion is that although many factors contributed to this accident and that we can't help but awe at fate when it happens, the most tragic part was the KLM captain.. the other factors can't be helped..there were terrorist threats, planes must be redirected, thats fate, weather is fate, although the communication was poor but the tower and american pilots were following procedures,doing what they are suppose to do

  • KLM captain obviously was in a big hurry. Kind of the same mentality an impatient driver shoots the gap at a red light thinking he can make it and doesn't.

  • It is not there fault, it is the fog that caused the deaths. It is not the KLM's fault it is the fog and the tower had no way of knowing. It is still tragic.

  • Stupid KLM pilot!

  • Over confident is always the killer.

  • did the pilots of the pan am or the klm survive????

  • @hellrobot pan amers survived

  • @hellrobot Everyone died

  • было похоже что Д Медведев за штурвалом самолета

  • @MrBombella Kazakhstan is number one importer of potassium I love Kazakhstan

  • Zantem shouldn't have taken off without the ok. EVERYONE on his plane died! Not one survivor on the KLM! And 61 people survived on the PAN-AM.

  • OMG

  • Flying large jets in the 1980's was all about huge balls and ego. It was that way from the 1960's on. Not the right attitude with passengers behind you.

  • Stomme hollanders weten het altijd beter!

  • @1UW4ever Inderdaad xD

  • @1UW4ever

    Ik haat die piloot :'(

    En inderdaad, de meeste hollanders zijn waardeloos. Was er ook liever niet geboren. Stuk voor stuk betweters en egoïsten hier, dat blijkt maar weer in deze documentaire :@

  • how many survivors on the pan-am?

  • @icebillion 61 peoples

  • Van Zantem was to blame... for the fina

  • It happen July 1977

  • DUDE IN 0:31 THEY SAID NO ONE SURVIVES ON ONE OF THE VIDZ THEY SAID 20% OF THE PAN-AM PASSANGERS SURVIVE!!!!!!!!What is up!

  • no one in klm plane survived.

  • they said all of the KLM-Passengers died

  • @Gavindays no one survived on the klm, the pan am people survived

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  • TO BIG!!!

  • what a disaster :$ When exactly did it happen ?!:-?

  • Tenerife Norte Airport, Spain and there were some survivors.

  • @proudvampire around the 1980's or 70's

  • experienced r always make accidents n mistakes. cos of their ego....n they r more careless cos of tht....fresh people always will be carefull b4 any movement, tht's wht happened this f u ckin super ego bitch klm caption. His nasty ego n impatience ended up like this!

  • @anusanthu lol

  • 2 poor people...!where u guys from? bram n XxMusashi

  • It's a recreation of the Canary islands crash in the seventies with real aftermath video included.

  • What kind of IDIOTS are you, thinking this might be fake? More then 500 peoples lost theire lives and you idiots think it was fake? Get a life and learn instead of hanging up all day in front of your fucking Playstation or similar crap.

  • @wodanowitz lick a dick

  • @MrKhawal69 ........ no, I fucked your mama and the result was this pile of shit crap that you see, each time you look in a mirror...... btw... go ahead and fuck your dad's dick you fucking cumbag!

  • @wodanowitz i'm with you the Tenerife accident was very real and has the highest deaths in an aviation accident to this very day. those idiots may mean the reconstruction. offcourse the reconstruction isn't real but how stupid to say that all is fake.

  • Bram Dont Be Stupid Course It Aint Fake Its The Largest Plane Crash In The World

  • good question, I think its fake as well. geez get a brain man, does this shit not look like a documentary to you?

  • @XxMusashiYamatoxX it is real it happened around the 1980's not that i was there but people told me stories of it

  • and you believe these stories? well from what you told everyone you certainly do. people do lie dude.

  • @XxMusashiYamatoxX so why would they make a documentary about it for nothing? come on think about it

  • @XxMusashiYamatoxX You're an idiot, this is the biggest aviation disaster in history--very real, very true.

  • poor people

  • 1) Wouldn't the full flaps be anyway set for all take-offs?

    2) If he (KLM captain) instead had aborted takeoff the instant he realised he was in the wrong: they might have collided - or not, if the Pan-Am aircraft would therefore have been able to get further out of the way, if not off the runway? Either way, it would have likely meant more survivors - whereas he was trying to get away with everything instead...

  • wen did dis happen wot year?

  • 1977

  • were among the survivors, 'ergo' the number of PASSENGERS who survived were 52 (a number yours truly remembers reading about at the time) or less.

  • klm captain =cunt

    R.I.P to all

  • what a jackass pilot !

  • first officer should have pulled the throtles back them punched him in the mouth before it started to say anything he would have been living with everbody else and could have got another job somewhere else like pan am

  • what game it was with the Space Shuttle

  • R.I.P everyone..

  • RIP all, , godspeed

  • A bigger lesson for you all - if the weather is snowing, heavy rain, or fog. DON'T BOARD the aircraft. I don't care if you're going to miss an event, or lose your fare, you'll live.

    I've skipped flights three times due to weather, and one of those evenings, a plane did go down, killing dozens. Not my flight, but the same area and weather.

    You are the final judge.

  • i wanna know 1 thing only

    How did they get it on cam i mean how did they know it was gonna happen

    wouldnt the camera dude die i he was by the pilot filming them?

    How did they do it

  • hahahaha, most stupid thing I have ever heard! It's just CGI, remade by computer graphics so we can see what did happen, without actually filming it in real life, it's not 100% identical to the real thing, but from evidence, it's pretty close.

  • look. this is a reconstruction based on what happened. and the crash was computerised.

  • It is a reconstruction

  • Still, an outstanding one that seems to cover pretty well all the bases. Yes, at least 90% of the trouble MUST go to the Dutch captain Jacob Veldhuizen van Zanten.

    One question: when an aeroplane's taking off, can it not turn at all (especially if close to being airborne) so as to have another way to avoid such a collision?? Would it's crossing from asphalt/concrete unto grass be so automatically fatal if it's anyway about to lift off (perhaps that could also have avoided the tail-strike)?

  • Arrogant piece of shit Captain of KLM.

  • I agree with you on that 1, pilots fault he caused the crash, end of story.

  • @jl49lo dont talk shit if you wernt there

  • @GWRtom hes right. the klm pilot was a fucker

  • @GWRtom lol whats wrong? he IS a piece of SHIT!

  • people survive! the copilot and some other people survive.

  • thats what i heard!

  • Of the Pan Am flight, yes, 56 people survived the collision itself - all on the KLM perished...

  • what airport was that?

  • Tenerife north (Canary Islands, Spain)

  • I've learn a lession about landing at the airport after landed at the airport with out the landing clearance, the tower said, "Landmark 1123 heavy your not clear to land Clear the runway? and till sudenly, I crashed into a small plane head on, well what a great lesson to learn after watching this video

  • Rip those people.

    It was the fault of captian Van Santen.

    He took off whitout takke-off clearnce.

    How stupid is that guy.

  • they all died right??

  • yup

  • no some lived

  • are there some uninjured

  • There are 584 persons died! It's 2nd air crash from "Worst air crashes of the World"

    Tenerife, Canary Islands

    27th of March 1977

  • what is the number 1?

  • 9/11

  • That doesn't qualify as an aviation disaster on account of its being a terrorist incident done DELIBERATELY to cause as many deaths as possible by Arab-Muslim terrorists - thus it doesn't qualify as anything in the least accidental. The Tenerife incident WAS accidental.

  • The accident wasn't caused by terrorist activity. The reason the planes were diverted to the island was because their original airport was closed due to the bomb, but the KLM pilot began take-off roll w/o clearance

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  • Only 1 from KLM survived, as she didn't get back on the plane since the island was were she lived. Her friends got back on the plane though.

    Some People from the Pam Am planed survived.

  • Pure and simple. Bad CRM and human error.

  • Thankfully the industry does learn from mistakes made, this is a prime example of bad CRM and deviation from SOPs, it is now a standard that when operating from airports in Low Vis conditions, the pilots announce by radio "entering the runway" "rolling" and "airbourne", also monitoring TCAS on take off often (not always) gives clues as to whether someone else is on the runway. Unfortunately, as regards to radios, transmitting at the same time (stepping on) still leads to garbled communications.

  • the cockiness and arrogance of the dutch captain is disgraceful and would certainly not be tolerated nowadays. unfortunately in aviation, it usually costs more than money for practices and habits to change.

  • >"the cockiness and arrogance of the dutch captain is disgraceful "

    That is absolutely true - the KLM Captain is a total SOB... in this reconstruction.

    But how accurate is it?

    A cockpit voice recorder (in 1977) only recorded the previous 30 mins. How can anyone possibly know how the Dutch Captain spoke to other people? How can they know he bawled out the air-stewardess, for example?

    There are NO witnesses, everyone on the KLM plane is dead.

    Remember - this is a tv drama...

  • listen, thanks for agreeing with me but I don't need you to tell me that it was a a tv drama smartarse. my opinion was based solely on the last few minutes before the crash. he is a cocky, arrogant shitface for disregarding atc clearance and the professional integrity of his first officer by applying thrust. this is a fact that is plainly on the record with or without a tv drama.

  • Captain Van Zantem clearly made a terrible mistake - but there are many theories as to why a man so experienced & highly trained made such an error. There are several books about this crash and many research papers. "cocky, arrogant shitface" may be one possible theory, but read the CRT transcript with an open mind and it doesn't give any clue whether VZ was arrogant or not.

    As for calling me names, I would retaliate in true youtube style but I'm afraid I grew out of that a while ago. Sorry.

  • No need to call people names: I read in Time magazine at the time that the Air-Traffic Controller said to the Dutchman "I shall CLEAR you FOR takeoff". Apparently, the very mention of the word "takeoff" is enough to push some jumpy pilots into thinking that the clearance for takeoff has ALREADY been given - if that happened, that would be a mitigating factor for him.

    What does CRM stand for?

  • Cockpit Resource Management - In a modern cockpit any member not happy would be able to abort the takeoff - it's team work. It is the opposite of the WW2 cockpit situation, where the pilot is in command of everyone.

    But - that assumes that the other two KLM crew believed the Dutch Captain was wrong. According to Paul Roitch of the American investigating team, when the engineer asked "is he not off then, that Pan America?" BOTH pilots replied '"jawel", not just the Captain.

  • the KLM captain and the tower is the main reason why this two aircraft crashed.

  • (It was not the tower the) The tower say to the KLM Captain stay but hi didn't listen. Thats what happend if you don't listen and thats was crazy and sad (583 passenger died because the KLM Captain was and idiot and don't listen)