Tenerife

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.

Cast

Paul Bandey

Bragg

Anne Cart

KLM Purser

Lee Delong

Erma Schlecht

Mike Dineen

Pan Am Flight Engineer George Warns

James Gerard

Walter

Lexie Kendrick

Robina Van Lanschot