A plane carrying the Arsenal women's team back from their Champions League semi-final first leg with Wolfsburg burst into flames on the runway on Sunday evening.
The incident occurred at the Braunschweig Wolfsburg Airport after a bird flew into the engine shortly before it was due to take off.
Flames immediately started to come out of the Boeing 737, and the pilots on board quickly evacuated the passengers, including Arsenal's first team squad to safety.
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"Tottenham's circumstances were completely different from what you expect to find at a club like Tottenham today. They were a team with 33 players, was a team trying to create an identity, to change the period that they were building until then."
Given the attention on Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital, Spurs are no match for the scrutiny experienced at Chelsea. Pochettino's principles stay the same though and as a guest on Monday Night Football over two years ago, the Argentine explained: "That's why they [Tottenham] find a young coaching staff, new manager, to try to develop a different way to approach games.
"In the same way I talk about Southampton, for us Tottenham was amazing. More than five years that we really enjoyed. People like Joe Lewis, Daniel Levy and all the boardroom and the people and staff that were helping from day one for us to be successful.
"Then the players. They were amazing too. We found a group with different habits. The players aren't responsible for the habits they adopt sometimes. Not sometimes, always it's who leads the club, who lead today the company because football clubs are companies."
"They need to be strong," he added. "How you want to create the habit and to translate the principles to your team. The players are important because they put the principles out onto the pitch. Then you need to create the line from the top.
"Be strong in your principles you're going to develop for the thing happening in the way that you want. That was amazing, to feel free, to create something special at Tottenham."
Pochettino further explained: "When you arrive at a new club you need to make some changes. If you arrive in the beginning, easier. If you arrive in the middle, the same, start to build, that's why it's so important to create a big platform and that is what we really believe.
"The coaching staff is to create that platform where the player can feel comfortable and can improve."