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

Mentour Pilot December 11, 2021
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Go to https://curiositystream.thld.co/MentourPilot_1221 and use the code MENTOURPILOT to save 25% off today! 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. Enjoy the video! Join my Patreon Crew and support our work 👇 👉🏻 https://www.patreon.com/mentourpilot 📲 Join the Mentour Pilot Discord server here! 👉🏻 https://discord.gg/JntGWdn I have also created an Amazon page with Aviation books, material and flight simulator stuff that I think you will enjoy! 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/shop/mentourpilot Follow my life on instagram and get awesome pictures from the cockpit! 📲 https://www.instagram.com/mentour_pilot To find the right HEADSET for YOU, check out BOSE Aviation 👉🏻 https://boseaviation-emea.aero/headsets Artwork in the studio 👉🏻 https://aeroprints.de/?lang=en Get some Awesome Mentour Pilot merch 👉🏻 https://mentour-crew.creator-spring.com/? Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out! Sources ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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 75H96TUDETDFVON0 P7PYOONL1GWU47SE

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