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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.
International Tenerife Memorial with Teide peak in the background Memorial plaque. The International Tenerife Memorial March 27, 1977, erected in memory of the 583 victims of the Tenerife airport disaster, is a monument located on the Mesa Mota on the outskirts of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
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 Tenerife Airport disaster. In 1977, 583 people were killed on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife after a KLM Boeing 747 attempted to take off.
1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision, a 1972 airport collision between a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and a Convair 880; Tenerife airport disaster in 1977, the deadliest air disaster in history, involving a runway collision between two Boeing 747s
The most fatalities in any aviation accident in history occurred at Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (then Los Rodeos Airport) in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, on 27 March 1977, when a KLM Boeing 747-206B and a Pan Am Boeing 747-121 collided on a runway, killing 583 people. [7]
Eve Meyer (born Evelyn Eugene Turner; December 13, 1928 – March 27, 1977) [1] was an American pin-up model, motion picture actress, and film producer. Much of her work was in conjunction with sexploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer, to whom she was married from 1952 to 1969. She was killed in the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977. [2]
A small bomb is detonated at the Gran Canaria Airport. Although only injuring one person, the consequent closure of the airport led to the greatest airplane collision in history, killing 583 people when two 747 airplanes collided in the regional airport of Tenerife. [3] [4] MPAIAC: Terrorism in Spain. Tenerife airport disaster. April 7 Shooting 2 0