How did ONE missing letter crash this plane? | Dan Air 1008

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Minutes before touching down in Tenerife on April 25th, 1980, catastrophe struck Dan Air London flight 1008, a Boeing 727 en route from Manchester, England. This was the second air disaster to strike the island in just three years, revealing severe infrastructural and technological shortcomings which had plagued the island for decades. These days, the Dan Air crash is overshadowed by the collision of two 747s on the runway of that same airport, which remains to this day the biggest air disaster in history.

This video investigates the lesser-known Tenerife collision of that period, using the Final Report and other publicly-available sources.

All music is licensed through Epidemic sound.

Final report:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov...

Fly J Sim 727
https://store.x-plane.org/727-Series-...

Dan-Air 727 livery
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...

Maps:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12...

00:00 Intro
00:40 Passengers and Crew
01:55 Initial descent and ATC contact
03:22 Holding instructions
04:24 A small misunderstanding
07:00 A Turn of event(s)
08:35 Immediate aftermath
09:10 A contentious investigation
10:59 Infrastructural insanity
11:41: The present day