[Sample] Tenerife airport disaster

On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Both aircraft had been diverted there after a bomb incident closed Gran Canaria airport, and the small regional field was congested and shrouded in fog when a KLM 747 began its take-off roll while […]

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