
Cleared For Take-Off? (Tenerife Air Disaster 1)
From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 1/10/2025

From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 1/10/2025
“Evacuate the airport, we’ve planted bombs,” a terrorist tells the telephone operator at the airport in Gran Canaria, in 1977. By the end of that day, 583 people will have lost their lives – but not to a bomb explosion.The planes are diverted to the neighboring island of…

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