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  1. Tenerife Airport Disaster: The Radio Calls Behind 583 Deaths

    Event: 1977Published: 6 May 2024

    This Mayday episode follows Spanish, Dutch and American investigators as they reconstruct how a KLM 747 and a Pan Am 747 collided in fog at Tenerife in March 1977.

    View event: Tenerife airport disaster (1977)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Los Rodeos Airport
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff
  2. Tenerife 1977: How a KLM and a Pan Am 747 Collided in the Fog

    Event: 1977Published: 3 Jan 2021

    On 27 March 1977, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, both diverted to Los Rodeos by a bomb at Las Palmas, collided in fog on the Tenerife runway.

    View event: Tenerife airport disaster (1977)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Los Rodeos Airport
    Phase of flight
    Takeoff