I'm from Tenerife, here is a gross fact: Many people reported the smell of burning and rotting flesh for DAYS in zones near the airport, also, some pieces of it also went to houses near it too...

It blows my mind how people die on a daily basis due to ignorance and stupidity.

Even before the crash, the layout of the airport looked like a disaster waiting to happen. That many planes should not have been on a runway that looked like it couldn't even accomadate TWO large planes safely.

I visited some elder relatives in San Mateo in 1975. Unfortunately they lost their lives in the crash - they were on board the Pan Am plane... 😞😢

THIS is why flights be cancelled from weather

our friends parents ,the Barths from escondido , were on the Panam plane, they never id the bodies, next year my friend Richard was on PSA182, in 79 the DC-10 crashed in Chicago with secretary of coworker,. - i hate bad ATC,

WW....

as someone with no knowledge in this area sounds like this is down to the KLM Captain

KLM Captain overconfident, I have seen this in a TV documentary... Huge ego🙄

WE GAAN!!

Came here after the crash in Haneda, Japan. This accident is so heartbreaking

I have no experience but I believe that if there is low visibility, then you should halt the take offs, especially if there is extremely poor weather and nobody can see eachother!

I still can't believe that a highly experienced pilot caused that f___ up.

You’re wrong That flight crashed on October 31 2000

Arrogant Dutch (captain)…

Wait... If you write the alr dead persons name that "insert incident name" was in for ex 9/11 would that bring them back to life? Life Note

This is not the deadliest plane crash. The most dangerous is Japan airlines 123 plane crash

I just wonder how so many things had to go wrong for this to happen.

WE GAAAN

It’s crazy how many dominos had to fall for this accident to even happen.

Actually accident happened because of extremists. What if nothing happend in the actual proposed destination?

I was there. I live in Etobicoke. I know these conditions and this runway. I saw the result. The pilots screwed the pooch. Thank God the cabin crew chose an uncommanded evacuation. All out in under 2 minutes. Brave crew. Stupid commanders.

I am a Maritime professional and I did a course called Maritime Resource Management where the course structure was based on this particular incident. The root cause was miscommunication and misuse of authority.

My late grandmother saw this happen from the airport terminal. It was a terrible tragedy and I was truly grateful that it wasn’t her on either plane.

There’s always a new “worst aviation accident”…

I was looking through youtube for aviation stories to watch with my father and the thumbnail for these two aircraft colliding came up. Never have I seen someone's face die so quickly... The horror of this incident...

This was unacceptable

Velho também não precisa acelerar nossa que burro

I first heard about this from Walter white

The KLM captain gets a lot of the blame for his recklessness and rightly so, but in my opinion, not enough blame was laid at the feet of ATC who really did a poor job in ensuring Pan AM was off the runway and this was clearly communicated with KLM despite the radio interference. I heard many of the ATC staff were watching a soccer match during this series of events and given the high stakes and poor weather, this was incredibly negligent. Also words like ‘cleared’ shouldn’t have been used when take off clearance hadn’t actually been issued.

You fail to mention a very key point which were the strict Dutch aviation regulations around how long pilots could be on duty. Had KLM not taken off, the pilots would have been heavily penalised so there was pressure to take off sooner.

We had a near miss on the transfer bus back to the terminal at tenerife yrs back,nearly crossed paths with a fuel tanker.

All bc one fucking Pilot couldn’t wait 5 more minutes…

Insane. Learing that KLM shouldnt even have been on Teneriffe but on a whole other island, makes me sick. The amount of bad luck needed for this catastrophe to happen is insane.

Zanten saved thousands of future people by killing hundreds of innocent passengers by displaying the brain of a donkey.

Nice video ❤

This was NOT an accident ! The KLM captain was negligent and totally responsible for this incident.

Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest aviation accident on history, with 583 deaths 61 survivors 60 by pan am, 1 by KLM, who stayed on the islands with her two freinds instead of reboarding with her two freinds, this day flights should not fly in foggy days, miss-communication was the cause of the crash, KLM took of without a clearance, two B747 crashed, very scary.

Looking into this it's mind boggling that before ATC didn't have any fixed electronic way to track where planes on a runway were but relied on pilots and the windows

Jesus christ, literally the GHETTO. Rip to everyone except the KLM pilots

i have a flight today 💀

Real worst 9/11

I hope the pilot that rushed rots in hell

So basically the vast majority of accidents in general are human errors...some bigger than others No surprise here

This may be the biggest case of "learning the hard way" in history.

this is like Cy Young's win total or DiMaggio hit streak

why was the 747 left on the thumbnail bigger than the right one

Why did the a USA get involved lmao

The two safest places in flying, the ground and the air. The most dangerous place in flying, the interface between them, that is, take-off and landing.

This was like watching a bunch of five year olds run an airport