1. Overview of Aviation Distasters
... other factors. Tenerife Airport Disaster This disaster occurred on March 27th 1977 on a small island known in the Atlantic called Tenerife. 'James Reason's Swiss Cheese model' of human error is a perfect desrcibtion of the events that occured that day. This disaster involves other factors than those mentioned in the model. ... They were all unavoidable circumstances. Firstly, a bomb was set off in the Palmas Airport where both the KLM 747 and the Pan Am 747 were meant to land. [ CITATION PBS12 l 1033 ]This then cause a diversion to the small Tenerife Airport. The airport was incredi...
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