Episode 62: The Tenerife disaster

Disaster Area

English - November 26, 2017 08:04 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB - ★★★★ - 723 ratings
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Until September 11, 2001, one aviation accident between two 747s was the deadliest aircraft crash by far, and only one of the planes just barely managed to make it off the ground. On March 27, 1977, everything that could go wrong did go wrong, one after another, leading to a deadly crash which left one group of prospective vacationers scrambling to escape a burning wreck.