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Thousands of passengers had their flights diverted and delayed after a private jet blocked the runway at the main airport in Tenerife.. The plane landed at Reina Sofía airport in the south of the ...
TENERIFE TOWER Ah, Papa Alpha one seven three six, report the runway clear. 1706:29.6 PAN AM (RADIO) OK, we'll report when (we are) clear. 1706:31.7 TENERIFE TOWER Thank you. [This was the last radio communication involving the two aircraft. Everything that follows is intra-cockpit communication amongst the respective crews.] 1706:32–1706:40
Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is the smaller of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna , 11 km (7 mi) by road from Santa Cruz and at an elevation of 633 metres (2,077 ft).
On December 3, 1972, a Convair CV-990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while taking off from Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, killing all 155 passengers and crew onboard. Many of the passengers were West German tourists heading home.
Many flights out of Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport had been grounded this morning (Friday) due to the technology outage. "Due to a global communication outage, many airlines are ...
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 ...
TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain (Reuters) -Firefighters on Thursday struggled to contain a wildfire that broke out in a mountainous national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife amid hot and dry ...
In the late 1960s, the island authorities of Tenerife found the need for a second airport at a new location, because the existing airport (then called "Los Rodeos Airport"), now known as Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, did not meet technical requirements due to adverse weather conditions, especially low visibility in foggy conditions; this was exemplified by the events of what ...