Airport Disaster (1977) This disaster claimed 583 lives when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on a runway in thick fog. The flights involved were KLM Flight 4805 from Amsterdam and Pan Am Flight ...

F, is the 1574th built in a production run spanning 55 years. Join the final B747 delivery ceremony at the Boeing Everett factory, where Boeing’s current and former CEO honor the “incredibles.” John ...

The recent accident in India involving an Air India Boeing 787, with over 200 casualties, has entered the list of aviation's biggest tragedies. Throughout history, air accidents have had a profound ...

There have been a number of aviation disaster in the UK including Pan Am ... Pan Am Flight 103 crashed ... All 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground were killed when the Boeing 747, ...

The Lockerbie bombing took place on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky. The New York-bound Boeing 747, named Maid of the Seas, was passing five miles above the ...

This could have been the case with the Air New Zealand flight which crashed on Mt Erebus. It was only not like that because it was an 'international' flight where the origin and destination airports ...

International Investigation. Pan Am flight 103: the revelations of former Libyan agent on the Lockerbie bombing. In a series of confessions before US and German prosecutors, the transcripts of ...

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

March 27, 1977 – A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 crashes into a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 at the Los Rodeos Airport at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing a total of 583 ...

A commemorative Pan Am trip departs from JFK Airport, tracing the original transatlantic route. The trip, costing $59,950 per person, includes stops in Bermuda, Lisbon, Marseille, London, and Shannon.

The storied Pan American World Airways – better known as Pan Am – is taking flight once again this summer as a commemorative trip departs from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York ...