Jon Ziomek has written a riveting account of the errors that unfolded before the worst civil aviation disaster in history, when on March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets—KLM Flight 4805 ...

there were 583 fatalities between the KLM Boeing 747 and the Pan Am Boeing 747 ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas”. Only 61 survivors somehow escaped the inferno that engulfed the airport runway. Neither ...

A Boeing 747 (KLM Flight 4805) initiated its takeoff run ... the runway before turning around and taking off. The Tenerife disaster did not actually happen on the taxiway, but it did happen ...

In 1977, in aviation’s deadliest disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island ...

On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on the ... “I looked down the aisle and suddenly saw the KLM plane coming straight at me. I bent double, head between my knees, and heard the ...

In 1977, in aviation’s deadliest disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island ...

and the crash in the fog, of two Boeing 747's, PanAm Flight 1736 and KLM Flight 4805 at Teneriffe. BEA Flight 548 crashes after takeoff in what appears to be a complete stall, Northwest Air Link ...

In 1977, in aviation’s deadliest disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway in Tenerife.

"My whole house shook," said a witness to the crash. Four people from Wisconsin were killed on Saturday when their private, single-engine plane crashed in a field near an airport in rural Illinois ...