ABSTRACT
The aircraft collision at Tenerife, Canary Islands, one of the world's worst aviation disasters occurred in the early evening of Sunday 27 March 1977 on an airport runway in the Canary Islands, when two Boeing 747400 Jumbo Jet aircraft collided. A Pan Am Clipper that had just arrived at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife was taxiing in fog on the runway when it was struck by a KLM Jumbo attempting to take off. Both planes had been diverted to Los Rodeos from Las Palmas, where a terrorist bomb had exploded. The pilots alerted British Midland to their problem and the flight was diverted to East Midlands Airport, adjacent to the M1 motorway. On 25 July 2000, at around five o'clock in the evening, an Air France Concorde flight took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for New York. But as it cleared the airport perimeter, it was seen to be trailing a dense black plume of smoke and flames.
