Tenerife airport disaster

High school (ages 12+)
Environment & Earth

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/tenerife-airport-disaster

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the date of incident?March 27, 1977
2. What is the location?Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
3. Why did the planes collide?The KLM plane started taking off in thick fog without clear permission, and the Pan Am plane was still on the runway, so they hit each other.
4. How did fog and airport traffic cause the crash?The fog made it hard to see, and many planes were stuck at a small airport, so they had to use the runway as a taxiway, making the situation dangerous.

Boeing 747: A wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, renowned for its distinctive hump and capacity.
Air Traffic Control (ATC): A complex system of communication and guidance services responsible for managing aircraft movements to ensure safety and efficiency.
Crew Resource Management (CRM): A set of training procedures designed to improve communication, decision-making, and teamwork among flight crews.
Standard Phraseology: A set of universally recognized and unambiguous terms and phrases used in aviation communication to prevent misunderstandings.