PBS Nova - The Deadliest Plane Crash (2005)HDTV | 1916x1072 | .MKV/AVC @ 3575 Kbps | 49 min 24 s | 1.37 GiB
Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary On March 27, 1977, on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets collided on a fogbound runway, killing 583 people in what is still the deadliest crash in aviation history. At the time, the facts of the accident were shocking and inexplicable. In a fog, a KLM 747 began an unauthorized takeoff, slamming into a Pan Am 747 that was taxiing on the same runway. The best and the brightest pilots, including KLM's senior captain and head of safety, were at the helm. What could have triggered the accident? NOVA looks back at the crucial final hours before the disaster, when an improbable chain of coincidences, bad luck, and misjudgments snowballed into tragedy.