The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The accident occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run in dense fog, collid...
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
Summary ; The Tenerife Airport disaster, leading to the death of more than 500 passengers, took place on March 27th, 1977. ; Refueling at Las Palmas could have prevented the fatal accident. ; Junior pilots' hesitancy to question the captain's decision may have led to the tragedy.
The Tenerife airport disaster was a fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s on Sunday, March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. The crash killed 583 people, making it the deadliest accident in av...
Before we look at the world's worst airline disaster and what we learned from it, let's talk a little bit about Tenerife. Located in the Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, Tenerife is the largest of Spain's eight Canary Islands. Enjoying what is described as being year-round eternal spring-like weather, Tenerife is a popular tourist destination that attracts more than five million tourists each year. Because of the Canary Islands' popularity with tourists, Tenerife happens to be the location of the world's deadliest air disaster. ...
Summary ; KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Tenerife due to poor visibility and miscommunication. ; 583 people died in the crash; all aboard the KLM aircraft perished, and blame lay on KLM for taking off early. ; Regulatory changes emphasized standard radio communications after the accident.
On this day in 1977, at Tenerife-North Airport (formerly Los Rodeos), two Boeing 747s - one belonging to KLM, the other to Pan Am - collided on a foggy runway.
The Tenerife Airport disaster is known as the largest disaster in the History of Aviation. To jets collided on a runway and it kille a total of almost 550 people.
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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Two chartered Boeing 747 jumbo jets, one owned by Pan American airlines and the other by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, collided and burst into flames yesterday on a foggy runway at this Canary Island resort, killing at least 560 persons in the worst disaster in aviation history. The disaster happened so quickly, one survivor said, that the Pan Am jet was reduced to ashes within five minutes. Airlines and airport officials said the two planes were carrying 640 persons on flights bound for the neighboring resort isla ...