WI No Tenarife?

The Accident at Tenarife was officially the worst disaster in Aviation history, and affected many aspects of Air safety.

What if The Bomb threat was delayed until the day after?
What are the chances of another disaster happening similar to it?
 

Archibald

Banned
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.
 
Honestly, I do not see what would change. 583 people survive, some of whom may have changed history somehow, but that's not something we can easily quantify.

For the accident itself, it was simply an accident: Two planes crashed. It was not something due to some enemy action, than sparked a war, or even than caused serious diplomatic problems like the Lockeed terrotist act did for Lybia. It was not even caused by some undiscovered design flaw.

Given the security checks of air travel, all accidents are caused by a series of small, apparently insignificant details than meet in the right (or wrong) moment. There has been countless air accidents before and after; this one just happeend to have the highest body count.
 
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.

American Airlines DC-10 in May 1979 had a damaged wing pylon. United Airlines DC-10 in 1989 had metal fatigue in the tail engine.
 
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.

American Airlines DC-10 in May 1979 had a damaged wing pylon. United Airlines DC-10 in 1989 had metal fatigue in the tail engine.
 
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