Tenerife airport disaster

Tenerife airport disaster
KLM Flicht 4805 · Pan Am Flicht 1736
Accident
Date	Mairch 27, 1977
Summary	Runwey collision
Steid	Los Rodeos Airport; (nou Tenerife-North Airport) Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Tot fatalities	583
Tot injures	61
Tot survivors	61 (aw war on buird Pan Am Flicht 1736)
First aircraft
	; PH-BUF, the KLM Boeing 747-206B; involved in the accident
Teep	Boeing 747-206B
Name	Rijn ("Rhine")
Operator	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Registration	PH-BUF
Flicht oreegin	Schiphol Airport; Amsterdam, Netherlands
Destination	Gran Canaria Airport; Canary Islands, Spain
Passengers	234
Crew	14
Fatalities	248 (aw)
Survivors	0
Seicont aircraft
	; A Pan Am Boeing 747-121; similar to the one involved
Type	Boeing 747–121
Name	Clipper Victor
Operator	Pan American World Airways
Registration	N736PA
Flicht oreegin	Los Angeles Int'l Airport; Los Angeles, United States
Stapower	John F. Kennedy Int'l Airport; New York Ceety, Unitit States
Destination	Gran Canaria Airport; Canary Islands, Spain
Passengers	380
Crew	16
Fatalities	335; (326 passengers, 9 crew)
Injures	61
Survivors	61

On Mairch 27, 1977, twa Boeing 747 passenger jets, KLM Flicht 4805 an Pan Am Flicht 1736, collidit on the runwey at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport), on the Spaingie island o Tenerife, Canary Islands,^[1]^[2] killin 583 fowk, an makkin it the deidliest accident in aviation history.

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ "580 killed in history's worst air disaster". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 28, 1977. p. 1A.
↑ "Dutch pilot blamed for air disaster". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 29, 1977. p. 1A.