The Story Of The Tenerife Airport Disaster | MenTour Pilot

On March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife, Pan Am Flight 1736 was sitting on the taxiway waiting to take off. A thick fog obscured the approach of KLM 4805, as it bore directly towards them. Air Disasters: Disaster at Tenerife airs tonight at 10 PM. | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

46 years to the deadlist aviation crash in history took place March 27, 1977- A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 crashes into a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 at the Los Rodeos Airport at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 574 people (326 passengers on the Pan American airplane and all 234 passengers plus 14 crew members on the KLM plane). Initially, the Pan Am flight was instructed to take off before the KLM flight. However, the KLM plane was refueling and in the way. The Pan Am

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