The Tenerife disaster shows how miscommunication, fog, and pressure converged, turning two 747s into aviation’s deadliest ...

In recent months there has been a spate of air crashes. One of the most devastating earlier this year was on January 29 when an American Airlines flight collided with an army helicopter near Reagan ...

Forty two years ago today, a catalogue of errors led to the crash of a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight, which resulted in changes to air traffic safety TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of ...

Air France-KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline. Air France was founded in 1933 and KLM in 1919. The two airlines merged in 2004. Both have had major accidents: A KLM crash in Tenerife, Spain, in 1977 ...

The Spanair flight that crashed on takeoff at Madrid's airport was bound for the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the western coast of Africa popular with vacationers. It was there that In ...

As they taxied down a runway at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, the pilots of Pan Am Flight 1736 saw lights looming through a dense fog. Suddenly, they realized another plane was ...

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Two chartered Boeing 747 jumbo jets, one owned by Pan American airlines and the other by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, collided and burst into flames yesterday on a foggy ...

March 27 marked the 30th anniversary of the most deadly aviation disaster in history. Most people haven’t heard of Tenerife, a pan-shaped speck in the Atlantic. It’s one of the Canary Islands, a ...

A video reconstruction shows how the jets collided, while terrifying images show the fireball wreckage as passengers and crew fled for their lives NEARLY 50 years on, the Tenerife Airport disaster ...

TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of the deadliest incident in aviation history, also known as the Tenerife Airport Disaster. On this day in 1977, a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight collided ...