Tenerife (2005)

March 27 1977 At 200 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife in the Canary Islands On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife Within three hours 583 people would be dead This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy