An American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter while descending ...

The collision between a passenger jet and a helicopter left no survivors. Flight attendants are mourning those who died.

The deadliest air disaster in history occurred in 1977 at a small airport named Los Rodeos on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. If the crash had a single, clear cause, it might be easy ...

“Evacuate the airport ... in 1977. By the end of that day, 583 people will have lost their lives – but not to a bomb explosion. The planes are diverted to the neighboring island of Tenerife.

And every time one happened, air safety authorities would refer to the Tenerife Airport disaster. In March 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at an airport on the Spanish ...