Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century

Name: Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-08-16
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Mark Halliley, Randall Holden, Antonio Cubillo

0.0 (0)2006-08-161h 25m

Documentary

Overview

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.