What REALLY Caused the Tenerife Airport Disaster?! The WORST Aviation Accident in History

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On the 27th of March, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger Jets collided on Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife. This video will explain the whole story about what happened this day, the day of the Tenerife Airport Disaster.
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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out!

Sources
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KLM Footage Courtesty of Rudi Van Goch. Check out his channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/rudivangoch

Final Reports:
http://archives.pr.erau.edu/ref/Tenerife-ALPAandAFIP.pdf

Crash Image: David Yeager Alexander
https://www.historynet.com/disaster-on-tenerife-historys-worst-airline-accident.htm

Crash Image: GETTY - CONTRIBUTOR
shorturl.at/kuCX9

Crash Image: HULTON ARCHIVE - GETTY
shorturl.at/rxNP6

Crash Image: UNKNOWN
https://goflightmedicine.com/tenerife-disaster/

Crash Image: Central Press, Getty Images
shorturl.at/kmtJQ

Crash Image: Tony Comiti, Sygma, Getty Images
shorturl.at/xAWY4

Crash Image: Tony Comiti, Sygma, Getty Images
https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/world/slideshow/40th-anniversary-of-the-Tenerife-Airport-Disaster-143064.php

Crash Image: CORR, AFP, Getty Images
shorturl.at/pJL34

Crash Image: CORR, AFP, Getty Images
shorturl.at/huzE0

Newspaper: Macarthur Job’s Air Disasters
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/apocalypse-on-the-runway-revisiting-the-tenerife-airport-disaster-1c8148cb8c1b

Crash Image: The Telegraph
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/apocalypse-on-the-runway-revisiting-the-tenerife-airport-disaster-1c8148cb8c1b

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten: UNKNOWN
shorturl.at/fjC17

Klaas_Meurs: UNKNOWN
https://tenerifecrash.fandom.com/wiki/Klaas_Meurs?file=Klaas.jpg

Willem Schreuder: UNKNOWN
https://tenerifecrash.fandom.com/wiki/Willem_Schreuder

Victor Grubbs: UNKOWN
shorturl.at/pDUV8

Robert Bragg: UNKNOWN
http://www.project-tenerife.com/engels/photoscrew.htm

George Warns: UNKNOWN
https://peterstenerifecrashpage.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/warns-george-walter/

Los Rodeos Tower: Aisano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_North%E2%80%93Ciudad_de_La_Laguna_Airport

MPAIAC Poster: UNKNOWN
https://imgur.com/a/R1CKna6

MPAIAC Book: Fructuoso Rodríguez
http://mis7estrellasverdes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1mpaiac-entre-canarias-y-venezuela.jpg

Suspects Poster: UNKNOWN
shorturl.at/sGJX2

Terminal Entrance: flowerlili
https://spain-rest.com/tenerife-north-airport-transfers-and-review/

Flower Shop: Georgeta Gheorghe
https://business-review.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Floria.jpg

Woman on phone: GETTY IMAGES
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/ed/27/50ed2783b38e453e90d93ca41ad00423.jpg

Terminal: Sir James
shorturl.at/aevKL

Robina’s Ticket: Robina Van Lanschot
https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2017/03/26/58d54e9522601d58468b45e4.html

Spanish Investigation Logo
https://www.mitma.gob.es/sites/mfom/themes/mfom/img/logoFomento.svg

Dutch Safety Board Logo
https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/

Book Cover: Jon Ziomek/caroline hopkins
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Collision-on-Tenerife/Jon-Ziomek/9781682617731

CRM 1: UNKNOWN
https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/what-happened-to-crew-resource-management/

CRM 2: Devin Durant
https://airlinegeeks.com/2017/01/08/a-lesson-on-the-importance-of-crew-resource-management/

Surface Radar: Mark Brouwer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_movement_radar

CHAPTERS
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00:00 - Intro
00:47 - “Clipper 1736”
02:10 - Pan Am Flight Crew
02:30 - Enroute To The Canary Islands
03:32 - The Klm Crew
04:19 - Political Activity
05:59 - Holding Patterns/Diversions
07:38 - Los Rodeos
10:16 - Arriving In Los Rodeos
14:00 - Las Palmas Re-Opened
16:00 - KLMEngine Start
17:52 - Proposed Taxi Route
20:26 - Clipper Starts Engines
22:14 - Charlie One Or Charlie Three?
25:06 - “Uno, Dos, Tres”
27:28 - Center Line Out Of Service
29:15 - Klm Ready For Takeoff
31:50 - Klm Thrust Up
33:40 - “Is He Not Clear Then?“
34:36 - “He’s Coming, He’s Coming!“
38:18 - Scenes Of Carnage
40:09 - Investigations
41:46 - Context

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