Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames

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.
8.5
Score
2 votes
Editorial context, craft details, and films that share its DNA.


James Gerard
Walter
2022