What the records say
- When
- 3 Dec 1972
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 28.27° N, 16.61° W
- Description
- plane which crashed while taking off, on December 3, 1972
- Deaths
- 155
- Injured
- 0
1972 Tenerife Spantax Convair CV-990 crash
1972 plane crash in Spain
On December 3, 1972, a Convair CV-990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while taking off from Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, killing all 155 passengers and crew on board. Many of the passengers were French tourists heading on a tour of Germany.
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