As they taxied down a runway at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, the pilots of Pan Am Flight 1736 saw lights looming through a dense fog. Suddenly, they realized another plane was ...

TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of the deadliest incident in aviation history, also known as the Tenerife Airport Disaster. On this day in 1977, a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight collided ...

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Two chartered Boeing 747 jumbo jets, one owned by Pan American airlines and the other by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, collided and burst into flames yesterday on a foggy ...

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 Reagan ...

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 574 people (326 ...

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Spanish officials said yesterday that a misunderstanding involving the pilots of two jumbo jetliners and the control tower may have caused the fiery crash that took at ...

The Spanair flight that crashed on takeoff at Madrid's airport was bound for the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the western coast of Africa popular with vacationers. It was there that In ...

Air France-KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline. Air France was founded in 1933 and KLM in 1919. The two airlines merged in 2004. Both have had major accidents: A KLM crash in Tenerife, Spain, in 1977 ...

On this day in 1977, at Tenerife-North Airport (formerly Los Rodeos), two Boeing 747s - one belonging to KLM, the other to Pan Am - collided on a foggy runway. Five hundred and eighty-three people ...