Secret Tenerife: Runway Safety Forum to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Tenerife Disaster

Runway Safety Forum to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Tenerife Disaster

Overview of the Mesa Mota mountain close to Los Rodeos, where the monument in memory of the victims of the accident will be inaugurated on March 27th.B. N. Sullivan of Aircrew Buzz reports that "The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will hold a one-day forum on March 27, 2007, focusing on airport runway incursions and accidents, and potential safety solutions.

The Runway Safety Forum is scheduled to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the 1977 runway collision at Tenerife, an accident that took the lives of 583 people on board two 747s, operated by Pan American World Airways and KLM. Capt. Robert Bragg, who was the First Officer on the Pan Am aircraft involved in the collision, will be a speaker at the Forum."

If you're in and around Washington D.C., in the United States, it is worthy of note that the public are invited to attend.

Those of us who are not, might be interested in the live and archived webcast of the forum will be available on the Board's website at www.ntsb.gov.

You'll also notice a link in that report to Robert Bragg speaks, which is, I think, a transcript from the Tenerife Crash DVD. In it, Bragg describes moment by moment what it was like to be a part of the worst disaster of civil aviation history.

This is something that I had not read before and though, at times, it's maybe "too much information", it does help greatly to understand what happened.

There is also a new photo, dated February 24, 2007 (shown above) from Captain Manuel Luis Ramos Garcia - and dedicated to Robert Bragg - it shows the Mesa Mota mountain close to Los Rodeos airport, where the monument in memory of all the victims of the accident will be inaugurated also on March 27th.

Via Google, I also discovered (not sure if I should have, mind you) a PDF pamphlet about the management of the Candelaria Hospital in Tenerife. On page 19 of the 20 page document, there are photos of Robert Bragg on his 2004 visit, when he presented a plaque to the hospital in thanks for their assistance in 1977.

News release about the Runway Safety Forum Via: Aircrew Buzz