The Most Deadly Airplane Crash

Due to poor visibility conditions (fog incident), poor communication facilities and technical and human problems involved in the machinery and air traffic crashed the start of a KLM Boeing 747 and a roll off the track as the Boeing Pan Am 747 in this largest ever air disaster of civil aviation were 583 people killed. From the air accident investigation reports show that none of the leaders in the tower and in two machines, one clear culprit of the disaster was assigned. All sides have committed grave errors. The Spanish American and the investigation report was the main culprit, however, in the KLM, the Dutch research report no major culprits identified. Taking into account all the negative contingencies (fog, unusually high density of traffic at the airport of Los Rodeos, since the crash of two machines, and many others because of a bomb threat at the airport in Gran Canaria, had to be diverted, and the lack of communication), as a result of collisions on both machines is probably the most prominent: the Tower, the Pan-machine at the exit 3 of the runway to take. The machine, however, would be technically not been able to take the exit. The air had only experience with much smaller machines, which are usually used the airport of departure and this happens easily. Bread Machine overlooked because of the fog this exit and so the tower can not draw that could not pass the exit.

KLM machine was finally under high time pressure, is ready and could start because of the fog machine is not PanAm. KLM and the machine to start the release of a bat, which came on the radio to the effect of overlap, since the tower and refused to release the bread machine at the same time cautioned that are still located in the track. KLM said the captain, however, the release and have accelerated boot your machine. When the two machines had eye contact, tried to evade the Pan Am crew, while the pilots tried KLM machine, his plane hochzuziehen. The evasive maneuver when the aircraft crash killed 335 people aboard the Pan-machine (61 survivors) and 248 all KLM passengers and crew members, including the chief pilot of the KLM flight captain Jaap Van Zanten . Both machines burned completely.

When firefighters arrived and heavy fog had not yet started, only to eliminate machine-KLM Pan Am had not noticed. In addition, the tower did not know (no ground radar), the machine with another conflict. Thus, the Pan-machine later, when the survivors had to fight the fire. It is the heaviest to date aviation accident in the history of civil aviation.