Podcasts · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)

· 37 min · S6 E3

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

0:00 36:35

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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