One of many confidential/synergistic factors that inexorably led to the worst disaster in commercial airline history. 1. Bombing at Tenerife airport that closed the airport. 2. Inadequacy of small secondary airport to handle 747s 3. Pilot concerns at limits on their flight hours and urgency to become airborne. 4. Delay in reloading passengers due to one laggard party of 4. 5. Sudden onset of fog. Planes were invisible to tower. 6. Tower screwup on advising Pan Am plane where to turn off main runway. 7. Superpilot on KLM 747 had recent experience as flight simulator trainer which does not involve live conversations with tower. He misinterpreted tower instructions as giving clearance to take off.
... among others On Jun 13, 2018 1:04 PM, "Randy Bennell via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Sad state of affairs. Primary problem was that the very experienced Dutch Pilot was impatient if I recall correctly. RB On 13/06/2018 11:42 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > I found this riveting. Whatever could possibly go wrong--- did -- starting > with the bombs at the main airport. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7z69ikk4Lg > _______________________________________ > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
