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The Final Eight Minutes

The investigation into the myriad causes of the disaster at
Tenerife's airport on March 27, 1977 was one of the largest in
aviation history, involving more than 70 officials from Spain, the
Netherlands, and the United States. Because the actions of both
the flight crews of the two aircraft involved and Los Rodeos
Airport's air traffic controllers so directly contributed to the
disaster, the log of conversations between the two planes and the
tower in the minutes leading up to the collision was investigators'
key tool for ultimately piecing together the events.

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The Final Minutes:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/planecrash/minutes.html
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