| 1701:57.0 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | Tenerife the Clipper one seven three six. (1702:00.2) |
| 1702:01.8 | TENERIFE TOWER | Clipper one seven three six Tenerife. |
| 1702:03.6 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | Ah- We were instructed to contact you and also to taxi down the runway, is that correct? (1702:07.4) |
| 1702:08.4 | TENERIFE TOWER | Affirmative, taxi into the runway and -ah leave the runway third, third to your left, (background conversation in the tower). |
| 1702:16.4 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | Third to the left, O.K. (17:02.18.3) |
| 1702:18.4 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Third he said. |
| CAM-? | Three. | |
| 1702:20.6 | TENERIFE TOWER | -ird one to your left. |
| 1702:21.9 | PanAm CAPTAIN | I think he said first. |
| 1702:26.4 | PanAm CO-PILOT | I'll ask him again. |
| CAM-? | * * * | |
| 1702:32.2 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Left turn. |
| 1702:33.1 | PanAm CAPTAIN | I don't think they have take-off minimums anywhere right now. |
| 1702:39.2 | PanAm CAPTAIN | What really happened over there today? |
| 1702:41.6 | CAM-4 | They put a bomb (in) the terminal, Sir, right where the check-in counters are. |
| 1702:46.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Well we asked them if we could hold and -uh- I guess you got the word, we landed here ** |
| CAM-? | * * * | |
| 1702:49.8 | TENERIFE TOWER | KLM four eight zero five how many taxiway -ah- did you pass? |
| 1702:55.6 | KLM (Radio) | I think we just passed charlie four now. |
| 1702:59.9 | TENERIFE TOWER | O.K. ... at the end of the runway make one eighty and report -ah- ready -ah- for ATC clearance (background conversation in the tower). |
| 1703:09.3 | PanAm CO-PILOT | The first one is a ninety degree turn. |
| 1703:11.0 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Yeah, O.K. |
| 1703:12.1 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Must be the third ... I'll ask him again. |
| 1703:14.2 | PanAm CAPTAIN | O.K. |
| 1703:16.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | We could probably go in it's ah ... |
| 1703:19.1 | PanAm CAPTAIN | You gotta make a ninety degree turn. |
| 1703:21.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Yeah, uh. |
| 1703:21.6 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Ninety degree turn to get around this ... this one down here it's a forty five. |
| 1703:29.3 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | Would you confirm that you want the clipper one seven three six to turn left at the third intersection? (1703:35.4). |
| 1703:35.1 | PanAm CAPTAIN | One, two. |
| 1703:36.4 | TENERIFE TOWER | The third one, sir, one; two, three, third, third one (1703:38.3).. |
| 1703:38.3 | CAM-? | One two (four). |
| 1703:39.0 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Good. |
| 1703:40.1 | PanAm CAPTAIN | That's what we need right, the third one. |
| 1703:42.9 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Uno, dos, tres. |
| 1703:44.0 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Uno, dos, tres. |
| 1703:44.9 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Tres - uh - si. |
| 1703:46.5 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Right. |
| 1703:47.6 | PanAm FLT ENGR | We'll make it yet. |
| 1703:47.6 | TENERIFE TOWER | ...er seven one three six report leaving the runway. |
| 1703:49.1 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Wing flaps? |
| 1703:50.2 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Ten, indicate ten, leading edge lights are green. |
| 1703:54.1 | CAM-? | Get that. |
| 1703:55.0 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | Clipper one seven three six (1703:56.4) |
| 1703:56.5 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Yaw damp and instrument? |
| 1703:58.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Ah- Bob we'll get a left one * |
| 1703:59.3 | PanAm CO-PILOT | I got a left. |
| 1704:00.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Did you? |
| 1704.00.9 | PanAm CO-PILOT | And -ah- need a right. |
| 1704:02.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | I'll give you a little * |
| 1704:03.8 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Put a little aileron in this thing. |
| 1704:05.0 | PanAm CAPTAIN | O.K., here's a left and I'll give you a right one right here. |
| 1704:09.7 | PanAm CAPTAIN | O.K. right turn right and left yaw. |
| 1704:11.4 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Left yaw checks. |
| 1704:12.4 | PanAm CAPTAIN | O.K., here's the rudders. |
| 1704:13.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Here's two left, centre, two right centre. |
| 1704:17.8 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Checks. |
| 1704:19.2 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Controls. |
| 1704:19.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Haven't seen any yet! |
| 1704:20.3 | PanAm CO-PILOT | I haven't either. |
| 1704:21.7 | PanAm CAPTAIN | They're free, the indicators are checked. |
| 1704:24.6 | PanAm CO-PILOT | There's one. |
| 1704:25.8 | PanAm CAPTAIN | There's one. |
| 1704:26.4 | PanAm CAPTAIN | That's the ninety degree. |
| 1704:28.5 | CAM-? | O.K. |
| 1704:34.5 | CAM-? | *** |
| PanAm CO-PILOT | Weight and balance finals? | |
| 1704:37.7 | CAM | (Sounds similar to stabilizer trim).(1704:44.8) |
| 1704:37.2 | PanAm CAPTAIN | We were gonna put that on four and a half |
| 1704:39.8 | PanAm FLT ENGR | We got four and a half and we weigh five thirty four (sound of stabilizer trim). |
| 1704:44.6 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Four and a half on the right. |
| 1704:46.8 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Engineer's taxi check. |
| 1704:48.4 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Taxi check is complete. |
| 1704:50.5 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Take-off and departure briefing? |
| 1704:52.1 | PanAm CAPTAIN | O.K., it'll be standard, we gonna go straight out there till we get thirty five hundred feet then we're gonna make that reversal and go back' out to * fourteen. |
| 1704:58.2 | TENERIFE TOWER | -m eight seven zero five and clipper one seven ... three six, for your information, the centre line lighting is out of service. (TENERIFE TOWER transmission is readable but slightly broken.) |
| 1705:05.8 | KLM (Radio) | I copied that. |
| 1705:07.7 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | Clipper one seven three six. |
| 1705:09.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | We got centre line markings (* only) (could be "don't we) they count the same thing as ... we need eight hundred metres if you don't have that centre line... I read that on the back (of this) just a while ago. |
| 1705:22.0 | PanAm CAPTAIN | That's two. |
| 1705:23.5 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Yeh, that's forty-five there. |
| 1705:25.7 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Yeh. |
| 1705:26.5 | PanAm CO-PILOT | That's this one right here. |
| 1705:27.2 | PanAm CAPTAIN | (Yeh) I know. |
| 1705:28.1 | PanAm FLT ENGR | O.K. |
| 1705:28.5 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Next one is almost a forty-five, huh yeh. |
| 1705:30.6 | PanAm CAPTAIN | But it goes... |
| 1705:32.4 | PanAm CAPTAIN | Yeh, but it goes ... ahead, I think (it's) gonna put us on (the) taxiway. |
| 1705:35.9 | PanAm FLT ENGR | Yeah, just a little bit yeh. |
| 1705:39.8 | CAM-? | O.K., for sure. |
| 1705:40.0 | PanAm CO-PILOT | Maybe he, maybe he counts these (are) three. |
| CAM-? | Huh. | |
| 1705:44.8 | CAM-? | I like this. |
| 1705:44.8 | KLM (Radio) | Uh, the KLM ... four eight zero five is now ready for take-off ... uh and we're waiting for our ATC clearance. |
| 1705:53.4 | TENERIFE TOWER | KLM eight seven * zero five uh you are cleared to the Papa Beacon climb to and maintain flight level nine zero right turn after take-off proceed with heading zero four zero until intercepting the three two five radial from Las Palmas VOR. (1706:08.2) |
| 1706:09.6 | KLM (Radio) | Ah roger, sir, we're cleared to the Papa Beacon flight level nine zero, right turn out zero four zero until intercepting the three two five and we're now (at take-off). (1706:17.9) |
| 1706:13.0 | KLM CAPTAIN | We gaan. (We're going) |
| 1706:18.19 | TENERIFE TOWER | OK. |
| 1706:19.3 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | No .. eh. |
| 1706:20.08 | TENERIFE TOWER | Stand by for take-off, I will call you. |
| 1706:20.3 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | And we're still taxiing down the runway, the clipper one seven three six. |
| 1706:19.39-
1706:23.19 |
RDO and TENERIFE TOWER communications caused a shrill noise in KLM cockpit - messages not heard by KLM crew. | |
| 1706:25.6 | TENERIFE TOWER | Roger alpha one seven three six report when runway clear |
| 1706:29.6 | PanAm Radio(c/p) | OK, we'll report when we're clear. |
| TENERIFE TOWER | Thank you | |
| 1706:32.43 | KLM FLT ENGR | Is hij er niet af dan? {Is he not clear then?} |
| 1706:34.1 | KLM CAPTAIN | Wat zeg je? {What do you say?} |
| 1706:34.15 | KLM-? | Yup. |
| 1706:34.7 | KLM FLT ENGR | Is hij er niet af, die Pan American? {Is he not clear that Pan American?} |
| 1706:35.7 | KLM CAPTAIN | Jawel. {Oh yes. - emphatic} |
| 1706:40.0 | PanAm captain sees landing lights of KLM Boeing at approx. 700m | |
| 1706:44.0 | PH-BUF started rotation | |
| 1706:47.44 | KLM CAPTAIN | [Scream] |
| 1706:50.0 | collision |
Source: ICAO Circular 153-AN/56 (p.22-68)