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Tenerife airport disaster

1977 CE · Spain, Europe · Disaster

Tenerife airport disaster
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On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on a runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 people and injuring 61 others in the deadliest accident in aviation history.

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