After the aircraft landed at Tenerife, the passengers were transported to the airport terminal. Most of the KLM passengers were Dutch also on board were four Germans, two Austrians, and two Americans. The KLM jet was carrying 14 crew members and 235 passengers, including 52 children.
KLM BOEING 747 COCKPIT REGISTRATION
The aircraft was a Boeing 747-206B, registration PH-BUF, named Rijn ( Rhine). Schreuder had 17,031 flight hours, of which 543 hours were on the 747. Meurs had 9,200 flight hours, of which 95 hours were on the 747. At the time of the accident, van Zanten was KLM's chief flight instructor, with 11,700 flight hours, of which 1,545 hours were on the 747. Its cockpit crew consisted of Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten (age 50), First Officer Klaas Meurs (42), and Flight Engineer Willem Schreuder (48). KLM Flight 4805 was a charter flight for Holland International Travel Group and had arrived from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands. KLM Flight 4805 KLM captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten featured in a 1977 advertisement for the airline. Both islands are part of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Morocco. Their destination was Gran Canaria Airport (also known as Las Palmas Airport or Gando Airport), serving Las Palmas on the nearby island of Gran Canaria. Tenerife was an unscheduled stop for both flights. The captain is no longer considered infallible, and combined crew input is encouraged during aircraft operations. Cockpit procedures were also reviewed, contributing to the establishment of crew resource management as a fundamental part of airline pilots' training. The disaster had a lasting influence on the industry, highlighting in particular the vital importance of using standardized phraseology in radio communications.
Dutch investigators placed a greater emphasis on a mutual misunderstanding in radio communications between the KLM crew and ATC, but ultimately KLM admitted that their crew was responsible for the accident and the airline agreed to financially compensate the relatives of all of the victims. The subsequent investigation by Spanish authorities concluded that the primary cause of the accident was the KLM captain's decision to take off in the mistaken belief that a takeoff clearance from air traffic control (ATC) had been issued. Patches of thick fog were drifting across the airfield, so visibility was greatly reduced for pilots and the control tower. The airport quickly became congested with parked airplanes blocking the only taxiway and forcing departing aircraft to taxi on the runway instead. With 583 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest accident in aviation history.Ī bomb set off by the Canary Islands Independence Movement at Gran Canaria Airport had caused many flights to be diverted to Los Rodeos, including the two aircraft involved in the accident. The impact and resulting fire killed everyone on board KLM 4805 and most of the occupants of Pan Am 1736, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the aircraft. The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run while Pan Am Flight 1736 was still on the runway. The Tenerife Airport Disaster occurred on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, U.S.
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