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Fog, Misheard Clearance, and 583 Dead: Tenerife's Takeoff That Killed
Fog, Misheard Clearance, and 583 Dead: Tenerife's Takeoff That Killed
Five hundred and eighty-three people died when a Boeing 747 at full takeoff speed struck another 747 sitting on a fog-covered runway in the Canary Islands - the deadliest accident in aviation history. How did a bomb on a different island, a crowded single-runway airport, and a series of five decisions cascade into a collision nobody saw coming?
In this episode, we tell the documented record of that afternoon and trace the choices and conditions that led to the disaster, from the bomb at Gran Canaria Airport to the final…
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