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A terrorist attack caused a flight diversion, resulting in 583 deaths...

At the end of 2024, global air traffic was not peaceful, and air crashes occurred frequently. In particular, a Jeju Air flight in South Korea was hit by a bird when landing at Muan Airport, killing 179 people on board. However, did you know that the worst accident in aviation history was... How many people died in serious air crashes? The answer is 583 people. Time takes you back to March 27, 1977. Two flights of KLM and Pan Am were supposed to land at the airport on the resort island of Gran Canaria. But unexpectedly, something happened at the airport just before landing. A terrorist attack, in which a bomb placed in a flower shop in the lobby exploded, forced the airport to be closed urgently and all flights were forced to divert to the nearby Tenerife North Airport. However, this airport usually only allows small aircraft to take off and land. Large Boeing 747 passenger planes like this one are relatively rare. So, can KLM and Pan Am land smoothly when they transfer to this small airport? What other incredible coincidences are quietly happening? Refueling before takeoff is a decision that is neither right nor wrong, but at the moment, no one thought that this would be a fatal mistake. As time went on to the evening, the northern airport of Tenerife, because it is located between two high mountains, In the middle of the day, with the alternation of sea and land breezes, the fog began to become thicker and thicker, causing the visibility at the airport to drop rapidly. According to the equipment conditions at that time, the airport was not equipped with a ground radar system, which means that the location of the aircraft could not be displayed through instruments, but could only be dispatched by the visual observation of the tower personnel. The heavy fog became a big challenge. As the plane was preparing to take off again, since there was only one takeoff runway at this airport, just as the KLM flight was already in position for takeoff, the Pan Am flight was about to leave the takeoff runway through the fork road, but at this moment, the radio There was an anomaly in the three-party call. What was the reason that caused the Pan Am flight to remain on the runway? Why did the KLM flight collide directly with Pan Am? Please tune in to 57 ETTV's "Return to the Timeline" Premieres every Saturday night at 9pm