Tenerife airport disaster

Two heavily loaded Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Spain. KLM Flight 4805 from Amsterdam Schiphol was carrying 14 crew and 235 passengers; Pan Am Flight 1736, flying from Los Angeles via New York JFK, was carrying 380 passengers and 16 crew. As the afternoon wore on the weather at Los Rodeos had deteriorated, with heavy fog descending on the airport.

Date
1977-03-27
Deaths (Wikipedia list)
583
What the pin marks
The runway at Los Rodeos airport where the two aircraft collided, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: aviation, spain, canary islands, runway collision, boeing 747

Coordinates: 28.48165, -16.3384

Part of Airliner accidents that killed 200 or more people since 1970

More in Airliner accidents that killed 200 or more people since 1970

Related collections