Crew
CH
Chantal Hébert
Director
TF
Thomas Forwood
Writer
Ad
Anne de la Chaume
Writer
DB
David Bedard
Writer
Cast
Mark Halliley
narrator
RH
Randall Holden
Victor Grubbs
Antonio Cubillo
Self (archive footage)
Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century
200685m
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.
