Tenerife airport disaster
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tenerife-airport-disaster-181-12955069
title:
Tenerife airport disaster
text:
The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run in dense fog while Pan Am Flight 1736 was 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 latter aircr
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1977 runway collision
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
date created:
2002-09-27T03:41:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T06:39:18Z
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