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Assignment:
Tenerife Airport DIsaster
March 27, 1977. At 2pm in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands where a terrible tragedy was about to unfold. 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.
Using the above airport disaster, answer the following questions. Please provide references.
1. What happened to cause the accident?
2. Why did the accident happen?
3. What can be done to prevent this type of accident?
4. A discussion of the deficiencies (political, technical, or investigative) of the accident investigation report.
5. The aviation safety issues associated with the accident.