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.

Some great examples include Flight 1549 (into the Hudson River) in 2009 and the 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster ... undoubtedly ran high for a while. The simulation on the CTV News website uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...