The Story Of The Tenerife Airport Disaster | MenTour Pilot

Half a century later, the Tenerife disaster remains history's deadliest-ever air crash. Sift through the wreckage to uncover what caused the collision of two jumbo jets at a tiny airport in the Canary Islands, tonight at 8PM on #AirDisasters. http://bit.ly/2Hcq6xZ | Smithsonian Channel

The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two #boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of #tenerife . The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run during dense fog while Pan Am Flight 1736 was still on the runway. The Tenerife airport disaster remains aviation’s deadliest crash, a tragic convergence of miscommunication, fog, and human error. On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s—KLM Flight 4805 and Pan

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–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The incident occurred at 5:06 pm WET (UTC 0) in dense fog, when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run, colliding with the right side of Pan Am Flight 1736 still on the runway. The impact and the resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the KLM plane and 335 of the 396 p