My grandparents went on holiday to Tenerife in 1977 shortly after the accident. The wreckage from the accident was still visible at the side of the runway as they landed. Moved out of the way to get the airport open again.
It's hard to watch this without thinking about what happened here in 1977. While watching the vid I wondered why they couldn't paint markings on the runway to indicate exit names/numbers - I know they have the signage on the side but from this perspective it seems pilots would find it helpful to see some confirmation on the runway in front of them.
Painting exit names/numbers on the runway is not an industry mandate for any airports in the world. Plus, it wouldn't have made a difference in deep fog, which was what happened on the day. The airport did get many other improvements to prevent this from happening again. The tower now has better radios, instruments, and tracking devices such as ground radar and the apron is now much larger to accommodate larger jets.
4:16 this was the last thing the PAN AM Crew saw before impact with the KLM The co-pilot of PAN AM 1736 Robert Bragg has sadly passed away he was the only remaining Flight Crew Member that survived as the other Flight Crew Did survive but died Flight Engineer George Warns died in 1991 Captain Victor Grubbs died in 1995 All of the KLM Pilots and Flight Engineer died Captain Van Zanten was worried about the Dutch Legislations and wanted to fly back towards Las Palmas and back to Amsterdam Schiphol as KLM4806 he sadly died in the crash as he earlier uploaded Jet Fuel to his plane so that he wouldn't need to refuel in Las Palmas after landing there His impatience caused the crash
The smoothest landing i've ever seen. ( Finnish pilots, i hear! ;) Especially on that airport, landed there about 30-40 times... i'm usually a nervous wreck cos it's always windy there, plane shaking back and fort. Next landing i hope will be a smooth as cotton candy, just like this one.
I gotta wonder if the sloped runway also contributed to the incident. Combined with the fog the KLM pilot would’ve had trouble seeing the Pan Am plane’s lights.
@@marthiuxag8745 it's normally kept whilst the investigation is active, then disposed of. If metal can be recycled then it would be, otherwise probably landfill.
prankdayTV Es la perspectiva normal del ojo humano. Así es como se ve en realidad desde cabina. El movimiento es debido a la corrección efectuada para corregir el viento. Esto no se aprecia como pasajero mirando por el lateral. Cuando usas un gran angular minimizas estos movimientos y son más "agradables" a la vista, pero no son reales.
Never forget on that runway 500 people were killed and was the worst disaster in avination we can’t forget this tip everybody who died that horrifying day
Im from Tenerife and I fly from this airport many times a year and is modern and safe, don’t loose the opportunity of coming here it’s an unique island!! anyway, international flights land at the southern airport, there are two on the island.
@@marthiuxag8745 pues claro y más con lo que pasó hace más de 40 años. El aeropuerto del norte tiene la tecnología para aterrizar con visibilidad nula debido a la meteorología, lo de no se libra alguna vez, es de algún cambio de salida o aterrizaje en el del sur por mucho viento y niebla. Pero vamos que Los aeropuertos de Tenerife mueven millones de personas al años y están a la última y siempre los están mejorando. De hecho yo prefiero el del norte, mejores vistas seguro.
