Teneriffe was really the mother of all air disasters. A succession of little, insignificant facts that, assembled togethers killed 583 people.
It should really have never happened.
It was a perfect storm !
- the bomb alert
- a secondary, unprepared airport littered with lost airliners
- crap control tower with crap communications
- crap taxiways, again filled with airliners
- Fog
- arrogant captain Van Zaten
Then deadliest air disaster in history would be JAL Flight 123, August 1985, that killed 520 people.
Unlike Teneriffe many of the wide body crashes were maintenance mishaps - JAL Boeing 747 had a damaged tail for years, United Airlines DC-10 in May 1979 had a damaged wing pylon, the Turkish DC-10 of 1974 had an ill-designed rear door.
Teneriffe was really the mother of all air disasters. A succession of little, insignificant facts that, assembled togethers killed 583 people.
It should really have never happened.
It was a perfect storm !
- the bomb alert
- a secondary, unprepared airport littered with lost airliners
- crap control tower with crap communications
- crap taxiways, again filled with airliners
- Fog
- arrogant captain Van Zaten
Then deadliest air disaster in history would be JAL Flight 123, August 1985, that killed 520 people.
Unlike Teneriffe many of the wide body crashes were maintenance mishaps - JAL Boeing 747 had a damaged tail for years, United Airlines DC-10 in May 1979 had a damaged wing pylon, the Turkish DC-10 of 1974 had an ill-designed rear door.