When most people imagine a plane crash, they think of altitude, weather, engines failing midair. But the deadliest accident in ...

Misunderstandings like the one that occurred in Los Rodeos are almost impossible. The truth is that while the 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster is the deadliest civil aviation-related accident in ...

The Air India crash that killed 241 passengers is among the deadliest plane crashes in recent history. Here's a look at the ...

When news of the disaster reached KLM officials they ... closing that field and rerouting air traffic to the much-smaller Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife. With the apron at Los Rodeos full of ...

Incoming flights are diverted to Tenerife’s Los Rodeos airport, which runs out of room ... of 585 remained the world’s worst aviation disaster until Sept. 11, 2001. How could such a deadly ...

But the deadliest collision of two aircrafts - and the deadliest aviation accident - is the Tenerife airport disaster which ... flight had to be diverted to Los Rodeos Airport on the island ...

The Northbrook couple survived the world's worst aviation disaster, which killed 583 people on March 27, 1977, when two jumbo jets collided on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport on the island of ...

Incursions aside, the disaster in the Canary Islands ... including the Pan Am and KLM jets, to divert to Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife Island, a half hour away by air. The KLM 747 planned ...