Things we learn from disaster

When you count the human cost, it is extremely difficult to see the "silver lining" in the cloud of an horrific disaster, however, Tenerife's tragic air disaster is offering help in identifying tsunami victims as a Radio Netherlands story explains:

"The method used to identify the victims was developed after the 1977 collision between a KLM and Pan Am Boeing on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which claimed hundreds of lives," explains Mr Wiersinga.

Already, standard English "air speak" became mandated as a result of that collision.

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