true 2008-04-21T14:39:38-04:00 <div id="video_teaser"> <p>March 27, 1977 &ndash; At 2:00 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, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. The planes involved, a <span class="caps">KLM 747</span> and a Pam Am 747, never left the ground. It was the deadliest crash the world had ever witnessed. <em>Crash of the Century</em> takes viewers into the cockpits and cabins of the two doomed planes and reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.</p> <p><strong>Produced in association with Canal D (Canada), <span class="caps">M6 </span>(France) and BSkyB (UK).</strong></p> </div> 1 43 false false false false 33 <p>1 x 90 min<br />2005</p> 1 Factual <p>A dramatic retelling of the deadliest aviation disaster the world had ever witnessed. The doomed planes involved in the tragedy, two fully loaded jumbo airliners, never left the runway.</p> Crash of the Century 2008-10-29T13:41:08-04:00