S4 Ep37: Tragedy on the Tarmac at Tenerife: The Deadliest Airplane Accident in History

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In 1977, a Rube Goldberg-type chain of small events led to the deadliest accident in the history of air travel on the tarmac in Tenerife, Spain. A series of incredibly unfortunate decisions killed nearly 600 people and changed the rules of flying forever.

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