Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century

Year: 2006

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: English

Director: Chantal Hébert

Documentary

On March 27, 1977, at 2 p.m., a dense fog rolled into the quiet Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Two fully loaded jumbo jets sat on the runway after an explosion at a nearby airport diverted traffic to the understaffed field. Within three hours the disaster claimed 583 lives. The film reconstructs the moments and communications leading up to the tragedy.

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