Tenerife airport disaster
runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
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Summary
Tenerife airport disaster is an aviation accident[1]. It ranks in the top 0.78% of aviation accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40,279 views/month, #11 of 1,410).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Spain[3]
- Instance of: ground collision[4]
- Item operated: Boeing 747-100[5], Boeing 747-200[6]
- Operator: KLM[7], Pan Am[8]
- Location: Tenerife North Airport[9], runway[10], Santa Cruz de Tenerife[11], Tenerife[12], Canary Islands[13]
- Commons category: Tenerife airport disaster[14]
- Point in time: March 27, 1977[15]
- Has cause: pilot error[16], fog[17], air traffic control[18]
- Number of deaths: 583[19]
- Number of participants: 248[20], 234[21], 14[22], 396[23], 380[24], 16[25]
- Depicted by: Disaster at Tenerife[26]
- Number of injured: 61[27]
- Described by source: Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives[28]
- Start point: Los Angeles International Airport[29], Amsterdam Schiphol Airport[30], Amsterdam[31]
- Destination point: Gran Canaria Airport[32], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria[33], Canary Islands[34]
- Number of survivors: 61[35]
- Vessel: Boeing 747[36]
- Flight number: KL4805[37]
Why It Matters
Tenerife airport disaster has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]