Find the complete program transcript, including credits, for the NOVA program The Deadliest Plane Crash originally broadcast on PBS on October 17, 2006.

The co-pilot who survived the Tenerife aircraft disaster Close In March 1977, two jumbo jets collided at Tenerife Airport killing 583 people. It was the worst crash in aviation history.

JACOB VAN ZANTEN: Gando, KLM 4805 is with you now. GANDO AIRPORT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER: KLM 4805, Gando. The airport is closed. NARRATOR: The tower at Gando radios the KLM pilot that the airport ...

1977: Two Boeing 747s collide on a fog-shrouded runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst accident in aviation history. Sixty-one people survive. The planes — Pan ...

When most people imagine a plane crash, they think of altitude, weather, engines failing midair. But the deadliest accident in ...

On 27 March 1977, KLM flight 4805 carrying 248 passengers was preparing to lift off from Los Rodeos Airport while Pan Am Flight 1736, with 396 souls on board, was taxiing along the same runway.

In the months after the crash, before the official report was released, the three different nations [Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States] tended to shift blame away from themselves.

While we are shocked to see the recent airplane crash in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, the incident reminds us of the past air crashes ...