Tenerife airport disaster
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Accident | |
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Date | Mairch 27, 1977 |
Summary | Runwey collision |
Steid | 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. 28 Mairch 1977. p. 1A.
- ↑ "Dutch pilot blamed for air disaster". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. 29 Mairch 1977. p. 1A.
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