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On 27 March 1977, a B747 aircraft belonging to KLM, collided with a B747 belonging to Pan Am while attempting to take off at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife; there were 583 fatalities.This is the Human Factors report into the accident produced by ALPA. View publication.
With a total of 583 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest accident in aviation history. [2] [3] The two aircraft had landed at Los Rodeos earlier in the day, and were among a number of aircraft diverted to Los Rodeos due to a bomb explosion at their intended destination of Gran Canaria Airport.
All 248 occupants of the KLM aircraft and 335 of the 396 occupants of the Pan Am aircraft were killed or subsequently died as a result of injuries received. 61 occupants escaped from the Pan Am aircraft.
6 lis 2021 · As investigators from Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States converged on the island of Tenerife, they faced the aviation industry’s greatest nightmare made manifest: the fatal collision...
17 paź 2006 · On March 27, 1977, on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, two 747 jumbo jets collided on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 583 people in what is still the deadliest crash in aviation...
On 27 March 1977, a KLM Boeing 747-200 began its low visibility take-off at Tenerife without requesting or receiving take-off clearance and a collision with a Boeing 747-100 backtracking the same runway subsequently occurred.
28 kwi 2024 · The Story Of The Tenerife Airport Disaster. 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.
