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    The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North...
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    Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is the smaller of the two international airports on the...
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  • instructor. He was the captain of KLM Flight 4805, and died in the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history. He was KLM's chief...
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    collided on the foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport), on the Spanish island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, killing 583 people, making...
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    Tenerife South Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur) (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), also known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofía Airport, is the larger of...
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    2011. Retrieved 26 November 2015. "The Tenerife Airport Disaster – the worst in aviation history". The Tenerife Information Centre. Archived from the original...
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    The International Tenerife Memorial March 27, 1977, erected in memory of the 583 victims of the Tenerife airport disaster, is a monument located on the...
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  • whom she was married from 1952 to 1969. She was killed in the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977. Born Eve Turner in Atlanta, Georgia, Turner was a high-profile...
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    a single aviation accident is the 583 fatalities of the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, in which two Boeing 747s collided. The largest loss of life overall...
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    Air Canada Flight 759 (category San Francisco International Airport)
    aviation disaster in history" as five airplanes and potentially over 1,000 passengers were at imminent risk of a disaster greater than the Tenerife airport disaster...
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    diverse city of almost 500,000. In 1977, he was killed in the Tenerife airport disaster. Hamann attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and was a football...
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    air disaster. Flight 981 was the deadliest aviation accident in aviation history until 27 March 1977, when 583 people died in the Tenerife airport disaster...
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    Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while taking off from Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, killing all...
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  • "Crash of the Century", a 2005 90-minute special investigating the Tenerife airport disaster, as the program is not branded as Mayday by Cineflix, even though...
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  • (pilot) (1937–2017), first officer on Pan Am Flight 1736, in the Tenerife airport disaster Robert Henry Bragg Jr. (1919–2017), American professor in the...
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    The following are lists of disasters. A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. These...
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    board, making it the deadliest in aviation history until the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster and the deadliest single-aircraft crash until the 1985 crash of...
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    311 Korean Air Flight 801 Tenerife airport disaster "Report No.8/1981 Report on the accident to Boeing 727, G-BDAN on Tenerife, Canary Islands, 25 April...
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    Avianca Flight 011 (category 1983 disasters in Spain)
    aviation accident in Spanish territory (the deadliest being the Tenerife airport disaster), the deadliest accident in mainland Spain, and the deadliest...
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  • they observed them making mistakes. CRM grew out of the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, in which two Boeing 747 aircraft collided on the runway, killing...
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    the flight director, traffic controllers, and the L-410M crew. Tenerife airport disaster — similar in circumstances "СССР-65836 — russianplanes.net — Aircraft...
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    Los Angeles airport runway collision Tenerife airport disaster Linate Airport disaster Madrid runway disaster 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision...
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  • for large commercial aircraft was the Tenerife airport disaster, where two Boeing 747s at Tenerife North Airport were required to backtaxi in order to...
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    titled Runway Incursions at Controlled Airports in the United States. Citing examples like the Tenerife airport disaster and the 1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway...
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    commercial aircraft Tenerife airport disaster, Madrid runway disaster, 1983 Anchorage runway collision, 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision — other...
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    tailstrike on takeoff while attempting to avoid collision in the Tenerife airport disaster. Japan Air Lines Flight 123, improper repairs to a previous tailstrike...
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    of 176 occupants, 75 survived the crash. 27 March 1977 – The Tenerife airport disaster: a senior KLM pilot failed to hear, understand or follow instructions...
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    1990s portal Tenerife airport disaster – in 1977, the deadliest runway incursion in history, involving two 747s in dense fog 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision...
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    "Taxiway Turmoil." Michigan portal Aviation portal 1990s portal Tenerife airport disaster – 1977 runway incursion in dense fog involving two Boeing 747s...
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  • volleyball club in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest airport disaster in history Teneriffe (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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