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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 .
Flight 1008 was a charter flight from Manchester Airport, United Kingdom, to Tenerife North Airport, Canary Islands, Spain. The flight was flying closely behind a slower Iberia Turboprop. The flight was 14 nmi (26 km; 16 mi) from VOR / DME beacon 'TFN' when it was cleared onward to radio beacon 'FP' for an approach to runway 12 after it had ...
loss of control due to fire caused by disintegrating turbine disc Eve Meyer: United States 1977 Actress, Playboy centerfold June 1955 Tenerife airport disaster; Boeing 747-100: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain runway collision George S. Mickelson: United States 1993 Governor of South Dakota: Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 Dubuque, Iowa
Felipe Mendez said he feels a great sadness after the loss of his wife and son, but is grateful to be together with his surviving children. Madison man mourns loss of wife and son killed in ...
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 ...
Crews from Avalon and the L.A. County fire and sheriff's departments found the plane about a mile west of Catalina Airport. Five people were dead at the scene.
Because of their location, the Canary Islands have historically been considered a link between the four continents of Africa, North America, South America, and Europe. [9] In 2023, the Canary Islands had a population of 2,236,013, [10] with a density of 299 inhabitants per km 2, making it the seventh most populous autonomous community of Spain ...