Five hundred and eighty people perished this morning when two jumbo jets collided on the tarmac at Tenerife Airport, in the Canary Islands. One was a KLM aeroplane, the other, Pan Am.
KLM, a Dutch carrier, is the world’s oldest commercial airline. Qantas Airways, is the second oldest. The name, Qantas, is an acronym of its original title: Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
At 7.30 p.m., on ABC-TV’s Channel Two, we watched a programme of “This Day Tonight”, which is a series based upon current affairs. “A Big Country”, another local series followed, from eight o’clock, on the same channel. It examines ‘Monte Cristo’, the mansion which is situated near the town of Junee in the south-west of New South Wales, because it is allegedly haunted.
The tenth episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2” screens from half past the hour, on ATN Channel Seven.