KLM Flight 4805 was a charter flight for Holland International Travel Group and had arrived from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands.[8] Its cockpit crew consisted of Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten (age 50), At the time of the accident, Veldhuyzen van Zanten was KLM's chief flight instructor, with 11,700 flight hours, of which 1,545 hours were on the 747.
How can a pilot with so much experience not only misunderstand tower instructiion including his co-pilot repeating the same instructions back to him? But also be so arrogant to ignore the instructions and be so eager and hurried to get that plane in the air especially in the dangerous foggy weather condition they were in. That's a mistake a rookie pilot would make.
I also never heard of Tenerife island. Learn new geography.
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#4548694 - 12/16/2005:04 AMRe: I didn't know this. Sad, tragic and totally avoidable.
[Re: NoFlyBoy]
Without humility, we are all prone to these kinds of mistakes . . . most of use just not put in a position where we can make 500 other people pay for our hubris with their lives.
#4548714 - 12/16/2011:04 AMRe: I didn't know this. Sad, tragic and totally avoidable.
[Re: NoFlyBoy]
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
#4548795 - 12/16/2010:39 PMRe: I didn't know this. Sad, tragic and totally avoidable.
[Re: NoFlyBoy]
