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[2] [3] The accident occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run in dense fog, colliding with the rear of Pan Am Flight 1736 still on the runway. 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 ...
Flight 1736, operated by Boeing 747-121 Clipper Victor, collided on the runway with KLM Flight 4805, also a Boeing 747, at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) after the KLM captain’s decision to take off without ATC clearance. The collision killed all 248 on board the KLM 747 and 335 of 396 on board the Pan Am 747.
Eve Meyer. Eve Meyer (born Evelyn Eugene Turner; December 13, 1928 – March 27, 1977) [1] was an American pin-up model, motion picture actress, and film producer. Much of her work was in conjunction with sexploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer, to whom she was married from 1952 to 1969. She was killed in the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977.
Pan Am Flight 843. Pan Am Flight 845. Pan Am Flight 845/26. Pan Am Flight 923. Pan Am Flight 1104. Pan Am Flight 1736. 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking.
Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten. Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten (5 February 1927 – 27 March 1977) was a Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor. He was the captain of KLM Flight 4805, and died in the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history. He was KLM's chief instructor and commonly appeared on advertising.
Robert Bragg. Robert Bragg may refer to: Robert Bragg (pilot) (1937–2017), first officer on Pan Am Flight 1736, in the Tenerife airport disaster. Robert Henry Bragg Jr. (1919–2017), American professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
The 61 survivors were all from the Pan Am 747. The Pan Am aircraft was the first 747 to enter commercial service. [9] Air India Flight 855 crashed into the sea off the coast of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) on New Year's Day, 1978. All 213 passengers and crew died. The cause was lack of situational awareness on the captain's part after executing a ...
Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Bombay, India, to New York, United States, with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan, and Frankfurt, West Germany. On September 5, 1986, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight was hijacked while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists of the Abu Nidal Organization .