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Deadliest Plane Crash, The
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Program Overview
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Note: This program contains graphic information about two
planes that crashed into each other and the lives that were lost.
Please preview it to determine its appropriateness for your
classroom.
NOVA investigates what can be learned from the worst aviation
accident in history—the 1977 crash on the Spanish island of
Tenerife that killed 583 people.
The program:
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reviews information about the two 747 jets involved in the
crash—a KLM flight from the Netherlands and a Pan Am
flight out of Los Angeles, both bound for Las Palmas in the
Canary Islands.
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relates how Las Palmas controllers began diverting airplanes
when a bomb exploded at the airport.
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notes how both 747s were diverted to, and landed at, Los Rodeos
airport on the island of Tenerife.
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recounts the personal story of three young tour guides on board
the KLM jet who lived and worked in Tenerife.
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details the series of events that occurred leading up to the
crash.
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provides accounts from surviving Pan Am passengers about what it
felt like when their plane was hit by the departing KLM flight.
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explores the reasons for how and why the crash occurred,
including why the KLM pilot took off without proper clearance.
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notes that runway incursions—when a vehicle is on the
runway when it should not be—occur in the United States
with surprising regularity.
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reports on air safety improvements that have been made and
others that are being tested to help avoid accidents.
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concludes with remarks from survivors about how their lives have
been affected by the 1977 crash.
Taping Rights: Can be used up to one year after the program
is taped off the air.
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