The truth is that while the 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster is the deadliest civil aviation-related accident in history, ultimately it shaped air travel for the better.

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE ... disaster in aviation history. The disaster happened so quickly, one survivor said, that the Pan Am jet was reduced to ashes within five minutes. Airlines and airport ...

NEARLY 50 years on, the Tenerife Airport disaster remains the world's worst-ever jet crash after 583 were killed in a fireball collision during takeoff. Harrowing images show flames erupting from ...

Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the deadliest aviation disaster ... Tenerife by a global threat that still haunts the industry, after a terrorist bomb explosion at the Canary Islands’ main ...

In recent months there has been a spate of air crashes. One of the most devastating earlier this year was on January 29 when an American Airlines flight collided with an army helicopter near ...

In March 1977, two jumbo jets collided at Tenerife Airport killing 583 people ... He spoke to Witness about that terrible disaster. Witness is a programme of the stories of our times told by ...

But the deadliest collision of two aircrafts - and the deadliest aviation accident - is the Tenerife airport disaster which killed 583 people. There were only 61 survivors. The crash took place on ...