Cleared to Speak

We are at takeoff," radioed the KLM copilot on the evening of March 27, 1977, at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The ambiguity in those words, along with other instances of poor communication between the air traffic control tower and two airliners, resulted in a Boeing 747 operated by KLM Royal...

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