Movie: Tenerife

Top 6 Billed Cast

Paul Bandey
Paul Bandey

Bragg

Anne Cart
Anne Cart

KLM Purser

Lee Delong
Lee Delong

Erma Schlecht

Mike Dineen
Mike Dineen

Pan Am Flight Engineer George Warns

James Gerard
James Gerard

Walter

Lexie Kendrick
Lexie Kendrick

Robina Van Lanschot

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    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. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.

  • Release Date

    2005-01-01

  • Average

    8.5

  • Rating:

    4.3 starts
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    English
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