Here you can see a memorial for those who perished in ... The truth is that while the 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster is the deadliest civil aviation-related accident in history, ultimately it ...

A memorial to the victims at Tenerife North Airport, which was called Los Rodeos Airport at the time of the crash. Picture: Wikimedia Commons Another factor was use of ambiguous phrases by the pilots.

In recent months there has been a spate of air crashes. One of the most devastating earlier this year was on January 29 when an American Airlines flight collided with an army helicopter near ...

The airport was immediately closed to all flights after the crash, which occurred about 11:40 a.m., New York time, and all radio and television stations on Tenerife began broadcasting appeals for ...

also known as the Tenerife Airport Disaster. On this day in 1977, a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight collided on the tarmac at the Spanish airport, resulting in the deaths of 583 people. KLM flight ...

Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the deadliest aviation disaster ... Tenerife by a global threat that still haunts the industry, after a terrorist bomb explosion at the Canary Islands’ main ...

NEARLY 50 years on, the Tenerife Airport disaster remains the world's worst-ever jet crash after 583 were killed in a fireball collision during takeoff. Harrowing images show flames erupting from ...

In March 1977, two jumbo jets collided at Tenerife Airport killing 583 people. It was the worst crash in aviation history. The two Boeing 747s were among those diverted from nearby Gran Canaria ...

As they taxied down a runway at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands ... But 583 were killed, the worst aviation disaster in history. That was a quarter century ago this week, on March ...