Tenerife airport disaster

When

27 Mar 1977

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

28.48° N, 16.34° W

Description

runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27

Deaths

583

Injured

61

Participants

0

Cause

fog, pilot error, air traffic control

1977 runway collision in the Canary Islands

On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on a runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 people and injuring 61 others in the deadliest accident in aviation history.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Zusammenstoß zweier Boeing 747 in der Flugzeugkatastrophe von Teneriffa”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “accident aérien de Tenerife”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “крупнейшая за всю историю авиации катастрофа”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Tenerife (Islas Canarias), dos Boeing 747 chocan en una pista de despegue brumosa”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “特内里费空難，泛美航空1736號班機與荷蘭皇家航空4805號班機在加納利群島的-{zh-cn:洛斯罗德奥斯;zh-hk:洛斯羅德奧斯;zh-tw:洛司羅迪歐;}-機場相撞，583人罹難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “カナリア諸島でジャンボ機同士の衝突事故が発生（テネリフェ空港地上衝突事故）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page