Memorial to air disaster victims
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
A 60ft monument is to stand as a permanent memorial to the 583 people who died when two jumbo jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos airport in the north of Tenerife 30 years ago.
In what is regarded as the biggest air disaster in civil aviation history, a Boeing 747 operated by the Dutch airline KLM began its take off while another 747 belonging to the American carrier Pan Am was still taxiing on the runway.
The airport was shrouded in fog that day, March 27, 1977, a contributing factor in the collision between the two aircraft.
All 248 passengers aboard the KLM plane perished, while just 61 of the 396 on board the Pan Am flight survived.
Ironically, neither flight was due to touch down in Tenerife that day but should have landed instead on the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria, where many of the passengers were ...
Posted by Ken
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