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Worst Air Disaster in History | Last Moments

Qxir | September 5, 2025



What are the chances of two 747’s colliding? Extremely low, as this video will explain, but it still happened.

“On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets, operating KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Resulting in 583 fatalities, the Tenerife airport disaster is the deadliest in aviation history.
A terrorist incident at Gran Canaria Airport had caused many flights to be diverted to Los Rodeos, including the two aircraft involved in the accident. The airport quickly became congested with parked airplanes blocking the only taxiway and forcing departing aircraft to taxi on the runway instead. Patches of thick fog were drifting across the airfield; hence visibility was greatly reduced for pilots and the control tower.
The collision occurred when the KLM airliner initiated its takeoff run while the Pan Am airliner, shrouded in fog, was still on the runway and about to turn off onto the taxiway. The impact and resulting fire killed everyone on board KLM 4805 and most of the occupants of Pan Am 1736, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the aircraft.
The subsequent investigation by Spanish authorities concluded that the primary cause of the accident was the KLM captain’s decision to take off in the mistaken belief that a takeoff clearance from air traffic control (ATC) had been issued. Dutch investigators placed a greater emphasis on a mutual misunderstanding in radio communications between the KLM crew and ATC, but ultimately KLM admitted that their crew was responsible for the accident and the airline agreed to financially compensate the relatives of all of the victims.
The disaster had a lasting influence on the industry, highlighting in particular the vital importance of using standardized phraseology in radio communications. Cockpit procedures were also reviewed, contributing to the establishment of crew resource management as a fundamental part of airline pilots’ training.”

More on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

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This post currently has 23 comments.

  13. @mrjakeguy14

    September 5, 2025 at 6:28 am

    So what im hearing is that God really had it out for someone on one of those planes.

    All joking aside its a tragedy but you cannot deny the amount of final destination synchronicity present in this true story.

  14. @NickKirschner

    September 5, 2025 at 6:28 am

    Imagine surviving a crash like that only to have a bunch of panicking folks break your back and arms when they used you as a crash pad for their exit from said plane wreckage.

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