Dan-Air Flight 1008

When

25 Apr 1980

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

28.40° N, 16.42° W

Description

1980 aviation accident

Deaths

146

Injured

0

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

1980 aviation accident

Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on a chartered international passenger service from Manchester to Tenerife. The accident occurred on 25 April 1980 in a forest on Tenerife's Mount La Esperanza, when the aircraft's flight crew wrongly executed an unpublished holding pattern in an area of very high terrain; it resulted in the aircraft's…

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