583 Victims, 7 Errors: The Tenerife Disaster Analysis

March 27, 1977. A chain of human and systemic errors led two Boeing 747s to collide on a single fog-shrouded runway. In this video, we conduct a technical analysis of the decisions made in the cockpit and the breakdowns in communication that resulted in the deadliest aviation disaster in history. Could you, in their position, have identified and broken this fatal chain?

Key moments in the investigation:

01:15 The Pressure Point: Crew duty limits and a critical refueling decision.

04:30 The Fatal Miscommunication: What the controller said vs. what the captain heard.

07:05 The Final Link: Silence in the cockpit.

This analysis examines the seven critical links in the chain of errors that culminated in the Tenerife disaster and how its lessons fundamentally changed global aviation safety protocols.

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