SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Two ... Eight hours after the crash, police, soldiers and firemen had recovered 522 bodies, and an airport official said that at least 84 persons survived ...

In recent months there has been a spate of air crashes. One of the most devastating earlier this year was on January 29 when an American Airlines flight collided with an army helicopter near ...

Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the deadliest aviation disaster ... Tenerife by a global threat that still haunts the industry, after a terrorist bomb explosion at the Canary Islands’ main ...

The airport at Santa ... Congress and other bodies before retiring in 1986. He moved to Florida with his wife, Betty, in 1998. Tenerife, he says, “was the worst crash ever but it was the easiest ...

In March 1977, two jumbo jets collided at Tenerife Airport killing 583 people. It was the worst crash in aviation history. The two Boeing 747s were among those diverted from nearby Gran Canaria ...

also known as the Tenerife Airport Disaster. On this day in 1977, a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight collided on the tarmac at the Spanish airport, resulting in the deaths of 583 people. KLM flight ...

By the time it had refuelled, a heavy fog settled over the airport at Tenerife. As pilot and author Patrick Smith wrote in his analysis of the disaster, had Pan Am been able to take off when it ...

NEARLY 50 years on, the Tenerife Airport disaster remains the world's worst-ever jet crash after 583 were killed in a fireball collision during takeoff. Harrowing images show flames erupting from ...

We recently showed you the neat 3D Disney Monorail that he created, and now he’s built a 3D animated tour of the 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster. The tour is very impressive, and it covers the ...