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- Date: March 27, 1977
- Passengers: 380
- Crew: 16
- Fatalities: 335
- KLM Flight 4805 fatalities: 248
- Total fatalities: 583
- Cause: “Inadequate visual information caused by low visibility...misleading aural information” which resulted in KLM attempting takeoff while Pan Am 1736 was on the runway, leading to a collision.
- Legend:
- CAM Cockpit area microphone or sound source
- RDO Radio transmission from accident aircraft
- -1 Voice identified as captain
- -2 Voice identified as first officer
- -3 Voice identified as flight engineer
- -4 Voice specified but now identified?
- -? Voice unidentified
- APP Tenerife Approach Control
- GRD Ground
- UKN Unidentified source
- TWR Tower
- KLM KLM radio communication
- * Unintelligible word
- @ Non-pertinent word
- # Expletive
- ( ) Questionable insertion
- (( )) Editorial insertion
- ... Pause
- Times are expressed in GMT
- ---
- 1700:27.1 CAM-2 On the hour
- CAM-1 Okay there we go
- 1700:43.5 GRD Clipper one seven three six cleared taxi into the runway following the seven four seven from KLM
- 1700:51.1 RDO-2 Clipper one seven three six
- CAM-? * * *
- 1700:54.7 CAM-? Better lock that door
- CAM-1 He says it clear there and it's clear all around
- CAM-2 Yea, it clear all the way
- CAM-3 * * *
- CAM-2 I'd love, yea, sure would, yea, that would be very well appreciated
- 1701:19.5 GRD Seven one two stand by Break clipper one seven three six leave the runway dah three one dah on to (our) left
- 1701:27.3 CAM-1 What
- CAM-3 Using runway three one
- 1701:28.6 RDO-2 I am sorry, say again please
- 1701:31.6 GRD Leave the runway the third one (your) left
- 1701:35.6 CAM-3 Leave the runway the first *N section on the left
- 1701:37.7 RDO-2 Okay, ah, taxi down the runway and ah leave the runway at the first intersection on the left, is that correct?
- 1701:40.6 CAM-1 * * * tell them that we are clear tell em we
- 1701:45.6 GRD Negative the third one, the third one and change one one nine point seven
- 1701:51.1 RDO-2 Okay, the first one and one nineteen seven changing
- 1701:54.2 CAM-1 We can hold clear here, if he'd let us
- 1701:57.0 RDO-2 Tenerife the clipper one seven three six
- 1702:01.8 APP Clipper one seven three six Tenerife
- 1702:03.6 RDO-2 Ah we were instructed to contact you and also to taxi down the runway, is that correct?
- 1702:08.4 APP Affirmative, taxi into the runway and ah leave the runway third, third to your left, third ((background conversation in the tower))
- 1702:16.4 RDO-2 Third to the left okay
- 1702:18.4 CAM-3 Third he said
- CAM-? Three
- 1702:20.6 APP -ird one to your left
- 1702:21.9 CAM-1 I think he said first
- 1702:26.4 CAM-2 I'll ask him again
- CAM-? * *
- 1702:32.2 CAM-2 Left turn
- 1702:33.1 CAM-1 I don't think they have takeoff minimums anywhere right now
- 1702:39.2 CAM-1 What really happened over there today?
- 1702:41.6 CAM-4 They put a bomb (in) the terminal sir right where the check in counters are
- 1702:46.6 CAM-1 Well we asked them if we could hold and uh I guess you got the word, we landed here **
- CAM-? * * *
- 1702:49.8 APP KLM four eight zero five how many taxiway ah did you pass?
- 1702:55.6 KLM I think we just passed charlie four now
- 1702:59.9 APP Okay... at the end of the runway make one eighty and report ah ready ah for ATC clearance ((background conversation in the tower))
- 1703:09.3 CAM-2 The first one is a ninety degree turn
- 1703:11.0 CAM-1 Yeah, okay
- 1703:12.1 CAM-2 Must be the third... I'll ask him again
- 1703:13.8 KLM Okay sir
- 1703:14.2 KLM Is ah centerline lighting available for four eight zero five?
- CAM-1 Okay
- 1703:16.6 CAM-1 We could probably go in it's ah...
- 1703:19.1 CAM-2 You gotta make a ninety degree turn
- 1703:19.8 APP Standby, I don't think so sir I don't think so standby, I will check
- 1703:21.6 CAM-1 Yeah uh
- CAM-2 Ninety degree turn to get around this... this one down here it's a forty-five
- 1703:22.9 KLM Okay
- 1703:25.0 APP They are working on them ah anyway we'll check it
- 1703:29.3 RDO-2 Would you confirm that you want the clipper one seven three six to turn left at the third intersection? (("third" drawn out))
- 1703:35.1 CAM-1 One two
- 1703:36.4 APP The third one sir, one two three third third one
- 1703:38.3 CAM-? One two (four)
- 1703:39.0 CAM-1 Good
- 1703:39.2 RDO-2 Very good, thank you
- 1703:40.1 CAM-1 That's what we need right, the third one
- 1703:42.9 CAM-3 Uno, dos, tres
- 1703:44.0 CAM-1 Uno, dos, tres
- 1703:44.9 CAM-3 Tres uh... si'
- 1703:46.5 CAM-1 Right
- 1703:47.6 CAM-3 We'll make it yet
- APP ...er seven one three six report leaving the runway
- 1703:49.1 CAM-2 Wing flaps?
- 1703:50.2 CAM-1 Ten, indicate ten, leading edge lights are green
- 1703:54.1 CAM-? Get that
- 1703:55.0 RDO-2 Clipper one seven three six
- 1703:56.5 CAM-2 Yaw damp and instrument?
- 1703:58.6 CAM-1 Ah Bob we'll get a left one *
- 1703:59.3 CAM-2 I got a left
- 1704:00.6 CAM-1 Did you?
- 1704:00.9 CAM-2 And ah need a right
- 1704:02.6 CAM-1 I'll give you a little *
- 1704:03.8 CAM-2 Put a little aileron in this thing
- 1704:05.0 CAM-1 Okay here's a left and I'll give you a right one right here
- 1704:09.7 CAM-1 Okay, right turn right and left yaw
- 1704:11.4 CAM-2 Left yaw checks
- 1704:12.4 CAM-1 Okay here's the rudders
- 1704:13.6 CAM-1 Here's two left, center, two right center
- 1704:17.8 CAM-2 Checks
- 1704:19.2 CAM-2 Controls
- 1704:19.6 CAM-1 Haven't seen any yet!
- 1704:20.3 CAM-2 I haven't either
- 1704:21.7 CAM-1 They're free the indicators are checked
- 1704:24.6 CAM-2 There's one
- 1704:25.8 CAM-1 There's one
- 1704:26.4 CAM-1 That's the ninety degree
- 1704:28.5 CAM-? Okay
- CAM-? * * *
- 1704:34.5 CAM-2 Weight and balance finals?
- 1704:37.2 CAM-1 We were gonna put that on four and a half
- 1704:37.7 CAM ((sounds similar to stabilizer trim for 7.1s))
- 1704:39.8 CAM-3 We got four and a half and we weigh five thirty four ((sound of stabilizer trim))
- 1704:44.6 CAM-2 Four and a half on the right
- 1704:46.8 CAM-2 Engineer's taxi check
- 1704:48.4 CAM-3 Taxi check is complete
- 1704:50.5 CAM-2 Takeoff and departure briefing?
- 1704:52.1 CAM-1 Okay it'll be standard we gonna go straight out there till we get thirty-five hundred feet then we're gonna make that reversal and go back out to * fourteen
- 1704:58.2 APP ...m eight seven zero five and clipper one seven...three six, for your information, the center-line lighting is out of service
- 1705:05.8 KLM I copied that
- 1705:07.7 RDO-2 Clipper one seven three six
- 1705:09.6 CAM-1 We got centerline markings (only/don't we) they count the same thing as...we need eight hundred meters if you don't have that centerline...I read that on the back (of this) just awhile ago
- 1705:22.0 CAM-1 That's two
- 1705:23.5 CAM-3 Yeh, that's that forty-five there
- 1705:25.7 CAM-1 Yeh
- 1705:26.5 CAM-2 That's this one right here
- 1705:27.2 CAM-1 (Yeh) I know
- 1705:28.1 CAM-1 Okay
- 1705:28.5 CAM-3 Next one is almost a forty-five, huh yeh
- 1705:30.6 CAM-1 But it goes...
- 1705:32.4 CAM-1 Yeh but it goes...ahead, I think (it's) gonna put us on (the) taxiway
- 1705:35.9 CAM-3 Yeah, just a little bit yeh
- 1705:39.8 CAM-? Okay, for sure
- 1705:40.0 CAM-2 Maybe he, maybe he counts these (are) three
- CAM-? Huh
- 1705:44.8 CAM-? I like this * *
- KLM Uh the KLM...four eight zero five is now ready for takeoff...uh and we're waiting for our ATC clearance
- 1705:53.4 APP KLM eight seven * zero five uh you are cleared to the papa beacon climb to and maintain flight level niner zero...right turn after takeoff proceed with heading zero four zero until intercepting the three two five radial from Las Palmas VOR
- 1706:09.6 KLM Ah roger sir we're cleared to the papa beacon flight level niner zero, right turn out zero four zero until intercepting the three two five and we're now (at takeoff)
- 1706:18.5 APP ...K
- 1706:19.3 RDO-1 No uh
- 1706:20.3 RDO-2 And * we're still taxiing down the runway the clipper one seven three six
- 1706:25.6 APP Roger papa alpha one seven three six report the runway clear
- 1706:29.6 RDO-2 Okay we'll report when we're clear
- 1706:32.1 APP Thank you
- CAM-1 Let's get the hell right here...get the hell out of here ((chuckle))
- 1706:34.9 CAM-2 Yeh, he's anxious isn't he
- 1706:36.2 CAM-3 Yeh after he held us up for an hour and a half, that ##
- 1706:38.4 CAM-2 Yeh, that #
- 1706:39.8 CAM-3 Now he's in a rush
- 1706:40.6 CAM-1 There he is...look at him...goddamn that...that son of a bitch is coming
- 1706:45.9 CAM-2 Get off! Get off! Get off!
- 1706:48.7 CAM ((sound of takeoff warning horn))
- CAM ((sound of approaching KLM engines))
- 1706:50.1 CAM ((sound of impact))
- 1706:50.6 ((end of recording))
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