A Brief History of: The Tenerife Airport Disaster, a dark day for Aviation (Documentary)
Channel: Plainly Difficult
Date: 09/10/2021

#Aircrashinvestigation #disaster 

On 27 March, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 respectively, collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport  on the Spanish island of Tenerife. 

Resulting in 583 fatalities, the Tenerife airport disaster is the deadliest in aviation history. 

The Air crash investigation would discover a multitude of failures all of which led to the fateful accident. 

Heres another couple of videos on the subject by two other great youtubers:

Qxir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXIvMbtXtCs

Fascinating Horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHCNXfHmjk

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Sources:

https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en/research/search?activeTab=photo_legacy&searchTerm=tenerife

http://www.project-tenerife.com/nederlands/PDF/finaldutchreport.pdf

https://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=1&LLID=52&LLTypeID=2#null

By Rob Russell - PAA 747 N736PA 76_837, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82439071

By clipperarctic - KLM 747, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28485595

By MartinD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7553621

By Aisano - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28385597

By Sir James - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18667955

By Aisano - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39787362