Season 6 · Episode 3
Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
January 17, 202536m 35s
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Show Notes
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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