The airport was subsequently closed to air traffic, and both flights were re-routed to the island of Tenerife at Los Rodeos airport, a smaller commuter airport. FOGGY CONDITIONS, LACK OF SPACE.

On the 27th of March, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger Jets collided on Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife. This video will explain the whole story about what happened this day, the day of the Tenerife ...

In 1977, 583 people were killed in a collision between two airliners at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife. It was the deadliest disaster in aviation history. The tragedy was partly ...

Event. Action. Condition. Result. bomb explodes at Las Palmas' Gando airport Gando controllers divert traffic to Tenerife's Los Rodeos airport Los Rodeos too small to accommodate that day's traffic ...

That fateful day of 27 March 1977, an accumulation of circumstances caused the tragedy. The closing of the Gran Canaria Airport for a bomb warning, adverse climate conditions and too many planes ...

Los Rodeos, 40 years since the airport disaster 27 March 1977, at 17:06 in the evening, two Boeing 747 jets crashed in the Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, 583 people died 27.03.2017 | 15:17 hours ...