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The Tenerife airport disaster [c] occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport [1] (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. [2] [3] The accident occurred at 5:06pm in dense fog, when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run, colliding with the right side of ...
Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and ...
As of 12 January 2025, 276 episodes of Mayday have aired, not including Season 25, including five Science of Disaster specials, three Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, which do not examine aircraft crashes, and a sub-series labelled The Accident Files that aired five seasons.
The investigation was conducted by the Spanish Police’s air crash investigation council. German investigators also arrived, but were barred from investigating by the authorities. Due to the unstable political situation unfolding, authorities suspected a bomb could have brought the aircraft down. This was quickly dismissed after a close look ...
A gravestone with Veldhuyzen van Zanten's name, Westgaarde Cemetery, Amsterdam. The Tenerife airport disaster on 27 March 1977 was the collision of two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport (now known as Tenerife North Airport) in Tenerife, Spain; causing 583 deaths, the crash is the deadliest accident in aviation history.
The events of Flight 236 were featured in "Flying on Empty", a season-one (2003) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday [21] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world).
On September 2, 1998, a fire breaks out on board a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 while on a transatlantic flight, damaging vital systems and causing the aircraft to crash into the sea off the coast of Canada, killing all 229 people on board.
Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on an unscheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Tenerife.