The Tenerife Air Disaster - Part 5 - Air Crash Disasters

On March 27th, 1977 the worse disaster in aviation history took place. In an attempt to take off in a thick fog, a 747 collides with another on the runway in Tenerife. The fiery explosion kills 583 people leaving just 70 survivors. By using forensic re-creations and transcripts of the recorded cockpit control tower conversations, this programme investigates exactly what went wrong.

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[nicoyasexy]

@MissKrystal1001 HE DID NOT GET TAKE OFF CLEARANCE!!!! DEAL WITH IT... *** HE...DID...NOT...GET...TAKE OFF...CLEARANCE ***

[WhimsicalXay]

Forgive me if this was already mentioned in the documentary... but could the refueling of the KLM plane be another factor? If there was not all that added weight, perhaps (I'm guessing), the KLM plane could have a better chance to fly over the Pan AM.

[rock3tcat]

You can expect the dutch to fuck everything up, moronic cheese eating monkeys.

[OnlineAutoAuctions]

Bob Bragg is a hero. Thank-you Sir and to those Pan Am flight attendants as well. I pray for those who perished so mercilessly due to the KLM's Van Zantens studpidity and his insistence to take off without ATC clearance.

[SlimLuctkar]

Just to add to what WhimsicalXay said, the extra fuel would have caused more fire

[Historymaker2001]

@MissKrystal1001 He got what is now referred to as "Departure clearance". This is the instructions the craft is to follow AFTER it is airborne. It is NOT clearance to begin the takeoff roll. That is referred to then - as now - as "Takeoff clearance", in which the controller will say, for example, "United one seven five three you are cleared for takeoff." There is a huge difference between the various kinds of clearance aircraft have to receive. In this case, KLM did not have takeoff clrc.

[ChaoNationFan57]

@MissKrystal1001 Idiot he did not get clearance. They only told him the path he was to take. It's just that Van Dumbass thought he could just go. He should have listened to the other guy who was unsure about whether or not the Pan American flight was off the runway.

[ChaoNationFan57]

@WhimsicalXay Had they not refueled, the fog would not have come yet, meaning that they would have been able to see each other clearly and there would have been no crash.

[ShatteredMercury]

Umm idiot Dutch pilot. Took on way too much fuel to save time. It would have been standard procedure to top up at the next airport not get all ur fuel to amsterdam when ur on a half hour hop to the next island. Not even to mention taking off without permission.

[CocteauDalighari]

Van Zanten had been a classroom instructor for 6 months preceding the Tenerife crash. He was flying the KLM because I believe it was the maiden voyage of the KLM 747, & he was the star pilot.

[mysterio980]

@WhimsicalXay errrmmm ...hey friend u r completely right in saying this as if that extra fuel hadnt been there KLM wud hv taken off!!

[XtremeMind84]

@Alaforte456 You are talking about USAir Flight 1493 and a SkyWest commuter plane. All on-board the SkyWest plane died but MOST of the passengers on the USAir Boeing 737 survived, so I'm not sure where you're getting your facts from.