The Story Of The Tenerife Airport Disaster

The crash of two Boeing 747s at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on March 27th, 1977 was the deadliest in aviation history. The planes collided on the runway after the departing KLM aircraft started its take-off run before the taxiing Pan Am aircraft had vacated the strip. 583 lives were lost. But… How did this tragedy come to pass? And what has changed in aviation since then?

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