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 Reagan ...

TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of the deadliest incident in aviation history, also known as the Tenerife Airport Disaster. On this day in 1977, a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight collided ...

Air France-KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline. Air France was founded in 1933 and KLM in 1919. The two airlines merged in 2004. Both have had major accidents: A KLM crash in Tenerife, Spain, in 1977 ...

As they taxied down a runway at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, the pilots of Pan Am Flight 1736 saw lights looming through a dense fog. Suddenly, they realized another plane was ...

A video reconstruction shows how the jets collided, while terrifying images show the fireball wreckage as passengers and crew fled for their lives NEARLY 50 years on, the Tenerife Airport disaster ...

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Spanish officials said yesterday that a misunderstanding involving the pilots of two jumbo jetliners and the control tower may have caused the fiery crash that took at ...

It’s March 27, 1977. The airport at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is overflowing with airplanes. A terrorist’s bomb has exploded in the terminal at Las Palmas, a Spanish island off the ...

Forty two years ago today, a catalogue of errors led to the crash of a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight, which resulted in changes to air traffic safety TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of ...

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 the ...