Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century
2006•1h 25m•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Chantal Hébert
Writer
Thomas Forwood, Anne de la Chaume, David Bedard
Languages
English
Studio
Galaxie
Cast
Mark Halliley
narrator
Randall Holden
Victor Grubbs
Antonio Cubillo
Self (archive footage)
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