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  2. Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport - Wikipedia

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    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). It handled 6,120,550 passengers in ...

  3. Tenerife airport disaster - Wikipedia

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    Los Rodeos was a regional airport that could not easily accommodate all of the traffic diverted from Gran Canaria, which included five large airliners. [17] The airport had only one runway and one major taxiway running parallel to it, with four short taxiways connecting the two.

  4. Tenerife Airport - Wikipedia

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    Tenerife Airport may refer to several airports on the Spanish island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands: Tenerife North Airport (1978–present), formerly known as Los Rodeos Airport; Tenerife South Airport (1978–present), also known as Reina Sofia Airport; Tenerife International Airport (1964–1978), renamed Tenerife North Airport in 1978

  5. San Cristóbal de La Laguna - Wikipedia

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    The Tenerife North Airport at Los Rodeos was opened in the 1930s and is today expanding. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Remedies, seat of the local Catholic diocese. The historic center of the city was declared a World Heritage Site on 2 December 1999. Several streets of historical significance have been closed off to automobile traffic.

  6. 1972 Tenerife Spantax Convair CV-990 crash - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Template:Infobox aircraft occurrence/testcases - Wikipedia

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    If there are many examples of a complicated template, ... Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife-North Airport) Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain: Total fatalities: 583:

  8. International Tenerife Memorial March 27, 1977 - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. Tenerife South Airport - Wikipedia

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    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 ...