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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
On 25 April 1980, Dan-Air Flight 1008 Boeing 727 crashed near the airport, killing all 146 on board, in a controlled flight into terrain accident. A new terminal was opened at Tenerife North Airport in 2002, comprising car park, motorway access ramps, and four-story terminal building, with 12 gates, reopening the airport to international traffic.
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.
Human remains have been found in the search for a British teen who went missing almost a month ago on the island of Tenerife, Spanish police said Monday. It is likely to be the body of Jay Slater ...
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 ...
Tenerife airport disaster: Canary Islands, Spain Airplane collision Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava: United Kingdom 1932 Soldier and politician Junkers F13: Meopham, Kent, United Kingdom Structural failure Dag Hammarskjöld: Sweden 1961 Secretary-General of the United Nations 1953–1961 Douglas DC-6B
On 27 March 1977, the deadliest-ever aviation accident occurs at Los Rodeos Airport (now known as Tenerife North Airport) in the Canary Islands. KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide on the runway in thick fog during the KLM aircraft's attempt to take off, killing 583 people.