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The Tenerife airport disaster [c] [d] occurred on 27 March 1977, ... the controller asked the flight crew to report when it was ready to copy the ATC clearance ...
In command was 50-year-old Captain Arthur John Whelan, who had flown to Tenerife North Airport 58 times previously. He had logged 15,299 flight hours, including 1,912 hours on the Boeing 727. The first officer was 33-year-old Michael John Firth, who had flown to Tenerife North Airport nine times previously. He had logged 3,492 flight hours ...
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).
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.
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; killing 583 people, the crash is the deadliest accident in aviation history.
Flight 981 was the deadliest aviation accident in aviation history until 27 March 1977, when 583 people died in the Tenerife airport disaster. It however, remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident without survivors, the second hull loss , the deadliest accident involving the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, and the deadliest aviation accident to ...
It was the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in history (and the second deadliest accident in history, since the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster); 520 out of 524 people on board died, including the famous singer Kyu Sakamoto. [40]
Tenerife airport disaster; 1959 Transair Douglas Dakota accident This page was last edited on 11 August 2023, at 17:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...