Tenerife Airport Disaster Animated Google Earth Model

This is an animated Google Earth 3D simulation of the 1977 Tenerife Airline disaster that killed 583 people. The accident remains the world's most deadly airline accident, apart from '911'. The model is available for download at http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b95cbcb2a669fa2fa1ed68d685...

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• tenerife
• airline
• disaster
• crash
• airport
• canary islands
• klm
• pan am
• plane crash
• airline crash
• airline disaster

[pmolsen1]

The airline would have had to pay for the accommodation. Presumably put pressure on the captain not to upset his employer.

[johnclansang09]

will this be available in google earth 5.0?

[pmolsen1]

@johnclansang09 It is available now. Just go to the 3D Warehouse and download it and run it.

[Morbuzka]

Thumbs up for that end message being R.I.P with all the names of people!

[CrYsTaL0796]

good job for this good documentary!

[fahardoaquino]

the first problem that the visibility is low ..... also the radio problems

[cwiscream]

@cheesemaster1000 you're not right. it was mainly the control tower's fault but if we must find a captain as the causer of the accident, both of the captains were pretty stupid. not only the klm captain. read it carefully.

[cheesemaster1000]

I always ask myself 'what was the KLM captain thinking?', more so when you realise he was KLM's chief training captain on the 747.

He took off without clearance in blinding fog with a potentially lost aircraft on the runway. Surely common sense says "don't do this", the truth is he'd probably done it countless times before and this time he just got unlucky.

[FCCJStudent1]

@pharao707 that's true. My college professor mentioned the penalty for flying-over time in certein European countries in my Aviation Regulations class.

[ambiye]

If he hadnt refuelled, this situation would not have arisen. He would have taken off 35 mins earlier and there wouldnt have been disaster as there would not have been fog

[sardanaphalus]

@MultiFlail Oh, I see. Thanks for pointing out. I think I'd still say -the- fatal decision was the KLM captain's decision to take-off without permission, though.

[MultiFlail]

@sardanaphalus because if he hadnt refuelled the klm plane could have managed to fly over the pan am 747