• Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)

  • Jan 17 2025
  • Length: 37 mins
  • Podcast

Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)

  • Summary

  • Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their plane. But could it have been more? Why did so many Pan-Am passengers die, even though they weren’t injured by the initial collision and their plane was still on the ground?

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