Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 90 min
  • Premiere: 2006. August 16.

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.

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Mark Halliley

narrator

Randall Holden

Victor Grubbs

Directing