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 ...

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 ...

Fortunately a disaster approaching the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster was here narrowly avoided, albeit with the loss of life in the DHC-8 aircraft. For the past years, airports around the world ...