Tenerife

Tenerife

★ 8.5IMDb Score
Released:2005-01-01
Duration:87 min
Director:Chantal Hébert
Actors:Paul Bandey, Anne Cart, Lee Delong, Mike Dineen, James Gerard
Production:Galaxie

Overview:

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.

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