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CRASH OF THE CENTURY

TENERIFE DISASTER
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DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCIDENT

1)Place

Date
Time

: Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) Tenerife,

Canary Islands, Spain at latitude North and
longitude West . The field elevation is 2,073 feet
(632 m).
:27 March 1977 (Sunday)
:1706(5.06 pm) local time

2)Aircraft Type

: Boeing 747-121 and Boeing 747-206B

3)Operators

:Pan American World Airways and KLM(Royal Dutch Airlines)

4)Fatalities

:583 fatalities and 61 survivors

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCIDENT

5)How it happened

: -Happened in visibility so poor

-Three parties involved (the two flight crews and the
air
traffic controllers)
-With no ground radar available
-One aircraft took off while the other was still on the
runway
-There were no eye witnesses to the collision

6)Aircraft damages

: Both aircrafts were fully destroyed due to the impact

and the post-impact fire.

LOS RODEOS AIRPORT,CANARY

ISLAND,SPAIN

AIRCRAFT TYPES AND OPERATOR

Boeing 747-206B
(Rhine)
KLM

Boeing 747-121
(Clipper Victor)
Pan-Am

INJURIES TO PERSONS
KLM Flight 4805
Injuries

Crews

Passengers

Others

Fatal

14

234

Non-Fatal

Others

Pan-Am Flight 1736

Injuries

Crews

Passengers

Fatal

317

Non-Fatal

61*

2**

* = 9 of the passengers subsequently died as a result of injuries received

** = Company employees,sitting on the cockpit jumpseats,who had
boarded the aeroplane in Tenerife.

CAUSAL FACTORS OF THE ACCIDENT

1)Pilot error

2)Poor visibility

CAUSAL FACTORS OF THE ACCIDENT

3)Runway incursion

4)Communication
failure

HOW THE ACCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN

PREVENTED ?
Taxiway : Pack taxiway cause the accident or turn the situation from bad
to worst
Authority : They must ensure the proper equipment are installed at the
airport

Taxiway

Authority

HOW THE ACCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN

PREVENTED ?
ATC
Pilot

: They need too have clear vision during operation

: They must understand their instruction correctly

Air Traffic Controller(ATC)

Pilot

HOW THE ACCIDENT HAVE AFFECTED THE

COMPANY AND AVIATION INDUSTRIES ?
Penalizing pilot

Common working
language

HOW THE ACCIDENT HAVE AFFECTED THE

COMPANY AND AVIATION INDUSTRIES ?

Passenger trust

Buy new aircraft

WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE

ACCIDENT ?
Every airport personnel should provided better equipment
For all pilots, they must listen to his co-pilot or engineer
All aviation workers must have a solid grasp in spoken English
communication skills
Air traffic instruction should not be acknowledged solely with a
colloquial phrase

CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT LEAD TO THE ACCIDENTS

CRASH OF THE CENTURY

MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEED

REFERENCES
1)Website
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
Date access : 28 January 2013
Time access : 10.00 pm
2)Website
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qMyKfYXN9A
Date access : 30 February 2013
Time access : 11.20 pm
3)Website
: http://cf.alpa.org/internet/alp/2000/aug00p18.htm
Date access : 29 February 2013
Time access : 10.30 pm

REFERENCES
4)Website

: http://www.1001crash.com/index-page-tenerife-lg-2-numpage

Date access : 1 February 2013

Time access : 11.30 am
5)Website
: http://www.project-tenerife.com /engels/index.htm
Date access : 13 April 2013
Time access : 10.00 am
6)Website
: www.alpa.org
Date access : 13 April 2013
Time access : 11.45 am
7)CAP 715, An Introduction to Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Human
Factors for JAR 66,TSO(The Stationery Office),UK Civil Aviation Authority.