Two airplanes have simply collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. Whereas nobody on the Amsterdam-bound KLM aircraft survives the ensuing fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their aircraft. However might it have been extra? Why did so many Pan-Am passengers die, though they weren’t injured by the preliminary collision and their aircraft was nonetheless on the bottom?
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Additional studying
Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World’s Worst Aviation Catastrophe is a complete account by creator Jon Ziomek and Caroline Hopkins, one of many Pan Am survivors. Fellow survivor David Alexander’s guide is known as By no means Wait For The Hearth Truck.
We drew on a variety of official experiences into the accident, together with these performed by the Airline Pilots Affiliation, the Netherlands Aviation Security Board, Spain’s Subsecretaria de Aviacion Civil, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. The web sites Undertaking Tenerife and Peter’s Tenerife Crash Web page comprise additional helpful assets, together with reportage in retailers similar to Salon, the Los Angeles Occasions and the Daytona Seaside Information-Journal.
For extra on the Moses Phantasm, see From Phrases to That means: A Semantic Phantasm and A case research of anomaly detection: Shallow semantic processing and cohesion institution. For makes an attempt to keep away from the Moses Phantasm in air communications, see A Information to Phrasing for Common Aviation Pilots in Europe.
For extra on the combat, flight and freeze response, see Walter B. Cannon and the Invisible Rays, The Results of Acute Stress on Core Govt Capabilities, Why Individuals ‘Freeze’ in an Emergency, Freeze for motion: neurobiological mechanisms in animal and human freezing, and Concern and the Protection Cascade.