Product: NOVA: The Deadliest Plane Crash (1974)
Rating: 5.0
Very well made & informative
In March of 1977, the deadliest plane crash in aviation history took place on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. 2 Boeing 747s - one owned by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, the other by Pan Am - collided on a fog-shrouded runway. Almost 600 people perished.In this DVD, Nova explores the accident itself and the circumstances that led to it - such as the absence of ground radar, communication problems and the fact that the KLM pilot began takeoff without ATC clearance - while the Pan Am was STILL on the runway!It also examines recent incidents of runway incursions that fortunately did not result in accidents. Most fascinating for anyone interested in civilian aviation.