The Story Of The Tenerife Airport Disaster

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The only people to blame for the Tenerife accident are the terrorists. The US gave its support to a terrorist group with the intention of the Canary Islands separating from Spain. Said terrorist group, the MPAIAC, exploded a bomb at the Las Palmas airport, which was the destination for eight 747s. The 747s had only two options. One, the Tenerife Airport, which neither received them nor was prepared to receive them, or the second, which was the bottom of the sea. Thanks to the diversion of the 747s to Tenerife, thousands of lives were saved from the other six 747s. The tragedy could have been greater if the eight 747s had ended up at the bottom of the sea. The blame for the Tenerife tragedy was exclusively the terrorists and the nation that supported them.

Had to watch this because I was confused how more people survived on the pan am plane than the klm

May those who perished this day in this terrible accident rest in peace.

A chain of events led to this terrible tragedy. If any one of them hadn’t happened, the tragedy would not have happened either. The klm pilot anxious to leave within his legal timeframe, over-riding the concerns of his first officer and flight engineer, was simply the last link in a chain which had many other earlier links.

Why you sound so happy about it bro?

1 lady failed to re-aboard the klm so she was the only KLM surviver

I lost my grandmother in this crash..she was on the Pan Am plane. It's taken me this long to be able to really research it and look at the footage/story.

We were on holiday when this happened, we were taken off Tenerife by ferry and taken to mainland Spain. I don’t know why, but we were kept in a hotel with armed police on the door. The ferry journey was horrendous and families were split up for some reason, the ferry was very overloaded, my grandfather was taken to a different part of the ferry than the women and children, I remember being really frightened.

after watching several videos about this crash ... I find that even the pilot was mainly at fault, but I think that ATC was not handling it well. In that foggy runway allowing planes to taxi and then take off is irresponsible.

"One often meets his destiny on the airport he takes to avoid it"

I came here after hearing that the KLM captain was a "douchebag"; after watching the video I think I agree with what I heard.

I have been watching this loads, not the video but documentries relating to the collision, my question is why didn't they divert the all aircraft to morocco or somewhere else, where it is a better condition than Los Rodeos.

The terrorist attack on the airport has drastic implications. That stretched out further than their expectations. This was truly a devasting crash. I can't imagine how the people were seeing the crash take place.

So everyone in that tower lost their job correct?

Pilots can and will be distracted by all sorts of things. However, as professionals they are charged with protecting the safety of their passengers. This isn't just one of the priorities they must consider, it is the only priority! The KLM captain failed in his duty, and as much as the company tried to shift the blame, ultimately he was the reason this catastrophe came to the awful conclusion it did.

Today, March 27, 2022, is the 45th anniversary of the Tenerife airport disaster. Still haunts me after seeing it on NBC news Sunday night.

I love your VOX style editing and explanation

Walter White brought me here

Great pronunciation of Gran Canaria 😂

I remember this when I was a kid. Probably a contributing factor in my soul crushing fear of flying.
That and a song from the 60's called DOA. About a Plane crash and the last moments of the only survivor.
I'm amazed that I actually have flown, several times.

Actually the klm plane decides to takeoff without clearance cause the copilot talking to the tower watcher for long and copilot was wasting time on captain so captain did a mistake like that he puts the full speed to take off and says "Were going" and immediately crashes on pan am and 583 people died 61 survived?!

This incident happened like 20 years after the invention of the black box and was the first aircraft accident where the invention proved useful. Listening to the CVR, investigators learned that there was confusion between the pilots and air traffic controllers that led to the collision. And to think this happened because the airport the planes were originally bound for had to close due to a terrorist bomb detonating

I think "accident" would be more appropriate than "incident" in that particular case...

yes it should never be forgotten

Meant in a friendly spirit. But we are literally drowning in Tenerife crash videos. So to add yet another should at least be cause for putting in all the basics. In this case, there is no mention of the pressure on the captain to not violate his duty time, and the resulting pressure to get airborne quickly. There is also the fact he was not used to waiting for clearances as an instructor, which may have been a cause. BUT, thank you for not pushing the BIG EGO theory, which is recklessly thrown around in the discussion sections.

nice voice

I am suprised that they use RFS for demo instead other Flight Sim in the world

Fun fact : The scenes were recorded in rfs real flight simulator

Everyone: it's sad
Me: Why RFS use Infinite flight or MFS2020

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This crash is one of the most important lessons in every airline pilots basic education!

Ring ring:

Is Captain van Zanten home, we need him to co…

He’s flying?

Where?

Ow…

A morbid thought. Apart from old battlefields, the Tenerife runway must be the most bloodiest piece of earth anywhere in the world.

Have read most of all written about this tragedy. And only this fact keeps popping up.

A bad day for aviation and for humanity.

1. Why can't flight instructions be aided with visual text messages now? This will eliminate overlapping radio transmissions.
2. Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder can all be backup equipment if both sets of data can be transmitted via satellite spontaneously and simultaneously. This will eliminate the time and efforts to locate and retrieve these recorders in case of an event.

If you look closer why this horrible crash happened and you don´t believe into the existence of a devil - you will start to believe in his existence.

Why do you pronounce Canaria so weird?

You have missed one major contributing factor. The crew of the KLM 747 was almost at their maximum time usage for the flight. If they had not taken off then, the plane would have to have been deboarded and an entirely new crew flown in to take the aircraft off, thus causing huge delays to the passengers. Captain Veldhuyzen van Zanten acted essentially autonomously in deciding on NOT performing this action and was, thus, in an extreme hurry to leave quickly. If he had taken the, what many people believe, better, slower decision, the collision would never have happened. Many have also suggested that his “rush” to leave, clouded his judgment and, thus, he “heard what he wanted to hear” from the control tower in terms of take-off acknowledgment.

One passenger on KLM survived, but in an odd way. KLM plane had several tourist quides and travel agents on board. One passenger was stationed at Tenerife, so she left the plane and never returned onboard, instead she remained on the island and asked her friends to bring her luggage. She never re-boarded the plane and survived the crash that way.

It’s also interesting that the new Tenerife South airport was opened just a year later

Wait is that RFS?

Oh wait I’ve just noticed this was only 2 years after the death of Francisco Franco! 🇪🇸

Btw the KLM was named “The Rhine”

This is actually a really complicated story; glad you made a video on it

I do remember sad day hope never hapenn again.

Unlucky Pan Am. Terrorism finished them off with the Lockerbie bombing involving another 747.

Arrogance kills.

There's a Dutch national memorial overlooking the airport. It has 583 "steps' remembering each victim. Worth a trip if stopping at the Port of Santa Cruz on your cruise ship. You'll gain a different perspective of this awful tragedy.

/we gaan/

Human mistake is more deadly than terrorism attacks...