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 Reagan ...

Forty two years ago today, a catalogue of errors led to the crash of a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight, which resulted in changes to air traffic safety TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of ...

On a Wednesday 42 years ago, the world reeled with shock when two packed passenger jets collided at the airport on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands. Two Boeing 747s — one operated by Dutch carrier ...

As they taxied down a runway at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, the pilots of Pan Am Flight 1736 saw lights looming through a dense fog. Suddenly, they realized another plane was ...

A video reconstruction shows how the jets collided, while terrifying images show the fireball wreckage as passengers and crew fled for their lives NEARLY 50 years on, the Tenerife Airport disaster ...

Last year was the safest year on record for airlines, with just two fatal accidents for commercial flights recorded. Aviation safety has continued to improve over the years. A lot of changes occurred ...

ALAMEDA — It’s every airline passenger’s nightmare. Smoke billows from the aircraft’s first-class section and the plane comes to a sudden halt. You look up at the ceiling and molding — and you see ...

In March 1977, two fully loaded 747 passenger planes collided on a foggy runway on the island of Tenerife, killing everyone on the KLM plane and many on the Pan Am jet. It remains the deadliest crash ...

TODAY, March 27, marks the 42nd anniversary of the deadliest incident in aviation history, also known as the Tenerife Airport Disaster. On this day in 1977, a KLM flight and a Pan Am flight collided ...

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 the ...