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00:00 Two Boeing 747s collide
04:01 The investigation begins
07:10 The threat that will change everything
12:48 A bomb explodes in Las Palmas
13:13 The KLM flight is diverted to Tenerife
15:21 Los Rodeos, an outdated airport
20:56 The KLM Boeing 747 lands
25:42 Pan Am 1736 arrives in Tenerife
32:22 Las Palmas reopens
34:32 A decision with far-reaching consequences
41:03 Fog rolls in at the airport
45:39 The KLM prepares for departure
47:43 Two Boeing 747s on the same runway
50:40 Visibility becomes Review
54:21 The tower loses sight of the planes
57:02 The two Boeings are face to face
58:50 The KLM begins its takeoff
59:42 The collision becomes inevitable
59:56 The impact
01:03:47 Surviving the inferno
01:06:14 Rescue efforts are launched
01:08:42 The survivors of the Pan Am
01:13:23 The toll of the disaster
01:14:11 The international investigation
01:20:11 The fatal radio message
01:21:21 An unauthorized takeoff
01:23:05 The nine causes of the crash
01:23:48 How Tenerife changed aviation
01:24:34 The trauma of the survivors

March 27, 1977. At 2 p.m., a thick fog engulfs the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport, in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway, two enormous passenger planes are immobilized under a blanket of fog. An explosion at a nearby airport diverted traffic to Tenerife's under-equipped airfield. Three hours later, 583 people would be dead.

To explain how such a tragedy could have occurred, Crash of the Century reconstructs the moments that led to this disaster.

Documentary: "Crash of the Century"
Directed by Chantal Hebert
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