The Tenerife Airport Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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  @FascinatingHorror · 1 year ago · pinned

  This aviation disaster was, in fact, followed by another at the same airport just a few years later. For more on that, watch my video on the crash of Dan-Air Flight 1008: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHVrqOC2g4g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHVrqOC2g4g</a>

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• SA

  @saragrant9749 · 5 years ago

  It’s a sad fact that most safety regulations are written, as they say- in blood. It often takes tragedy for changes to be made.

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• TH

  @the_gonzo_wanderer · 5 years ago

  &quot;Fun&quot; fact: One of the PAM AM survivors was Jack Ridout. A year later, he would cancel a flight to San Diego due to illness. That flight was PSA 182, which collided with a Cessna Plane mid air due to radio miscommunication and lack of vision. Everyone on board both planes were killed. Dude living a Final Destination in real life.

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  @TheZackofSpades · 5 years ago

  “accepted responsibility and paid compensation” damn those are RARE words in a Fascinating Horror video…

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• SH

  @SharpingtonTheGreat · 5 years ago

  It&apos;s so easy to forget the real consequences when you&apos;re impatient. This channel has changed my thought process from &quot;Well I&apos;m not supposed to do this but I&apos;m in a hurry&quot; to &quot;Either I make this yellow light and get there two minutes faster, or I get into an accident that could seriously hurt someone.&quot; You&apos;ve got to remind yourself of the real consequences, and WHY you&apos;re &quot;not supposed&quot; to do that. Because often it&apos;s to prevent injury and death.

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• LC

  @LClossn · 5 years ago

  My Grandfather survived on the Pan Am flight. Broke both his legs escaping, and refuses to talk about it up until his death 7 years ago

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• BE

  @BewareofDarkness44 · 5 years ago

  Over 500 people lost due to impatience and human error. &nbsp;That&apos;s the highest death count I remember seeing on this channel.

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• AD

  @adrielsebastian5216 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Captain van Zanten was actually KLM&apos;s premier pilot, he was a pilot instructor and was featured on promotional materials such as magazine ads (at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHCNXfHmjk&amp;t=291">4:51</a>). He was so experienced that when KLM heard of the disaster in Tenerife and that it involved a 747, they were going to send van Zanten to help with the investigation, before realising that he was the captain of the crashed plane. Also, it appeared that Robina van Landschot lived to her 60s and died last year.

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• JU

  @justinlane1980 · 5 years ago

  That’s a mind-boggling number of people to die in the matter of a split second. The captain of that KLM flight rushed all those people to their deaths. Tragic.

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  @Luubelaar · 5 years ago

  The whole disaster was one of those &quot;perfect storm&quot; situations. If any one contributing factor had been removed, it&apos;s quite likely it would never have happened, or would have significantly lessened the scale of the event.<br>I can&apos;t imagine the &quot;survivor&apos;s guilt&quot; that lass from the KLM flight felt. She waved goodbye to her friends (who were going to Grand Canaria) and went home, and her friends all died. How awful.

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• ER

  @ermagerdmuffins · 5 years ago

  I know this happened decades ago, but I’m yelling at my computer screen: “No, you don’t have clearance for takeoff! Stop!”

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  @solidus0079 · 5 years ago

  Oooh, this is a grisly one. &nbsp;I still can&apos;t believe the guy on all the KLM marketing material got everyone killed. &nbsp;It&apos;s like if Smoky the Bear went around with a flamethrower.

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