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The '''Tenerife airport disaster''' occurred on 27 March 1977, when two [[Boeing 747]] passenger jets collided on the [[runway]] at [[Los Rodeos Airport]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/reviews-crash-in-canary-islands-180972227/ |last=Tedeschi |first=Diane |date=June 2019 |title=Crash in the Canary Islands |work=[[Air & Space/Smithsonian|Air & Space Magazine]] |access-date=October 17, 2019}}</ref> (now Tenerife North Airport) on the [[Spain|Spanish]] island of [[Tenerife]].<ref name=hwairerg>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j9ZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6267%2C6928131 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=580 killed in history's worst air disaster|date=March 28, 1977|page=1A}}</ref><ref name=dpbfadi>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kNZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6418%2C7066417|work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=Dutch pilot blamed for air disaster |date=March 29, 1977|page=1A}}</ref> The collision occurred when '''KLM Flight 4805''' initiated its [[takeoff]] run in dense fog while '''Pan Am Flight 1736''' was still on the runway. The impact and resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the [[KLM]] plane and 335 of the 396 people on board the [[Pan Am]] plane, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the latter aircraft. With a total of 583 fatalities, the disaster is the [[List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents|deadliest accident in aviation history]] (the September 11 attacks were deliberate).<ref name=hwairerg/><ref name=dpbfadi/>
The two aircraft had landed at Los Rodeos earlier in the day, and were among a number of aircraft diverted to Los Rodeos due to a bomb explosion at their intended destination of [[Gran Canaria Airport]]. The airport had become congested with parked airplanes blocking the only [[taxiway]], forcing departing aircraft to taxi on the runway. Patches of thick fog were drifting across the airfield, so visibility was greatly reduced for pilots and the [[control tower]].<ref name=hwairerg/><ref name=dpbfadi/>
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