The collision killed 583 people and remains the deadliest airline disaster of all time.
Pan am captain victor grubbs.
On 27 march 1977 when the tenerife airport disaster occured robert bragg was the co pilot first officer on board the pan am flight 1736 747.
Flight engineer george warns died two years earlier.
Bragg was the last surviving flight crew member as all 3 members from klm died in the accident flight engineer george warns died in 1991 and captain victor grubbs died in 1995.
There he is cries grubbs shoving the thrust levers to full power.
Let s get the f out of here captain victor grubbs says nervously.
Bragg was among the sixty one people who survived including the entire pan am cockpit crew captain victor grubbs died in 1993.
My friend his son was throwing this away so.
Okay i ve found out victor grubbs died in the mid late 90s and that he never did fully recover from the disaster psychologically.
Victor franklin grubbs b.
Victor grubbs second from the left side in his young years.
A few moments later the lights of the klm 747 emerge out of the grayness dead ahead two thousand feet away and closing fast.
18 may 1920 d.
Goddam that son of a bitch is coming.
Documentaries crash of the century victor f.
Let s get the fuck out of here captain victor grubbs says nervously.
The new crew consisted of captain victor grubbs age 56 first officer robert bragg age 39 flight engineer george warns age 46 and 13 flight attendants.
Captain victor grubbs now deceased co pilot robert bragg now deceased and flight engineer george warn now deceased jump seat observers john cooper and juan antonio murillo rivas dorothy kelly purser carla johnson joan jackson and suzanne donovan flight attendants.
We honor those in this tragedy and salute their memory and courage.
Victor grubbs was the pilot of a pan am jet that was involved in the worst ever aircraft disaster at tenerife.
Despite the official report holding the klm captain responsible for the overall accident pan am captain grubbs had 3 opportunities to prevent this disaster.
Hold in the air and wait for the airport to re open.
Grubbs was portrayed by randall holden.
13 mar 1995 was an american captain of boeing 747 aircrafts.
There have been charges that the pan am pilot victor grubbs did not obey a direction to turn off the runway at an earlier point but pan am s vice president for operations william waltrip.
