Crash of The Century | Documentary | Curious?: Science and Engineering

KLM Flight 4805 and Pan American Boeing 747 prepare for take-off. After a nearby airport is rocked by an explosion, Tenerife airport is busier than usual. Within hours, over 500 people will lose their lives and the crash becomes one of the most infamous in aviation history. Have you heard about this crash? Who's fault do you think it was? Watch more aviation disaster videos here: https://bit.ly/3KKZLDk Want to see more Mayday full episodes? Watch them here: https://bit.ly/3vYH6wJ Crash Of The Century - March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. To explain how it happened, Crash of the Century reconstructs the moments leading up to this terrible tragedy. Welcome to the OFFICIAL Curious? Science and Engineering YouTube Channel. Be inspired and take an exciting leap into the world of science and engineering! We've got wacky experiments, magnificent creations and special moments that will change people's lives forever. Feeling curious? Good, we've got just the channel you're looking for. Subscribe to the OFFICIAL Curious? Science and Engineering channel here: https://bit.ly/2Ygq8yx #ScienceandEngineering #DangerousFlights #Flights #AirDisaster #PlaneDisasters #PlaneCrash #Mayday #MaydayAirDisaster #experimental #plane #discovery