Dramatic footage captures cars being swept away as massive floods hit a Tenerife, with torrential rain flushing vehicles down roads. Emergency services are working tirelessly to rescue stranded ...

The Tenerife disaster, the worst in aviation history, remains relevant today. As Patrick Smith said, “We’ve engineered away what used to be the causes of some of the worst crashes ever.

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.

Crash site of Pan Am 747 jet. The State Department announced that a group of U.S. diplomats stationed in Madrid had left for Santa Cruz to aid survivors and relatives of victims.

In 1977, 583 people were killed in a collision between two airliners at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife. It was the deadliest disaster in aviation history. The tragedy was partly ...

Tenerife North Airport formerly Los Rodeos Airport was the scene of the deadliest plane crash when 583 people lost their lives The Pan Am Boeing 747-100 before disaster struck ( WikiCommons) By ...