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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).
The impact and the resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the KLM plane and 335 of the 396 people on board the Pan Am plane, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the latter aircraft. With a total of 583 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest accident in aviation history .
On March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos Airport in the Canary Islands, Meyer, onboard Pan Am Flight 1736 from New York, was one of 335 passengers killed when KLM Flight 4805 collided with the Pan Am aircraft during take-off. The disaster is the deadliest in aviation history, with 583 total fatalities.
The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.
Five days after a powerful EF3 tornado ripped through Spanish Lakes Country Club Village and other areas near Lakewood Park in northern Fort Pierce, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office ...
It handled 6,120,550 passengers in 2023. Combined with Tenerife South Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 18,457,794 passengers, [1] surpassing Gran Canaria Airport. Today TFN is an inter-island hub connecting all seven of the main Canary Islands with connections to the Iberian Peninsula ...
Just after 8 p.m., deputies at the sheriff's Avalon station on the island received a 911 emergency notification from a cellphone alerting them that the plane had been in a crash involving injuries ...
Tornado’s victims are identified 04:00 , Louise Boyle An 11-year-old boy was among the three people killed by the massive tornado which tore through a Texas Panhandle town on Thursday.