Crash of the Century

Crash of the Century (also known as The Deadliest Plane Crash) is a 2006 90-minute docudrama television special based off Mayday by Cineflix Productions. The special covers the infamous 1977 Tenerife airport disaster.

The special was a co-production between Cineflix Productions, Adélaïde Productions and Galaxie Production, and first aired on August 13, 2006. An alternate version for NOVΛ under the title The Deadliest Plane Crash aired on October 17, 2006.

Premise
March 27, 1977. 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. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead.

To explain how it happened, Crash of the Century reconstructs the moments leading up to this terrible tragedy.

Release
Crash of the Century is currently available for streaming on Spiegel TV in Germany, and was released on DVD on May 1, 2013.