The Tenerife Airport Disaster remains a haunting reminder of how miscommunication and cockpit culture can lead to tragedy. With 583 lives lost when a KLM jet initiated takeoff and collided with a ...

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 … ...

The 1977 Tenerife Airport disaster Henri Bureau/Getty Images The Tenerife Airport Disaster took place in 1977 and earns the grim honor of being the deadliest air travel accident ever.