Tenerife

Recorded on the anniversary of the world’s worst air accident.  A enormous loss of life that highlights the vital importance of standard radio procedures and the pressures of command.  A word that still puts an icy hand around my heart when I hear it… Tenerife.

The KLM 747.

The Pan Am 747.

Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Dutch National Archives, clipperarctic and Michel Gilliand.