Air France-KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline. Air France was founded in 1933 and KLM in 1919. The two airlines merged in 2004. Both have had major accidents: A KLM crash in Tenerife, Spain, in 1977 ...

March 27, 1977- A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 crashes into a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 at the Los Rodeos Airport at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 574 people (326 ...

March 27 marked the 30th anniversary of the most deadly aviation disaster in history. Most people haven’t heard of Tenerife, a pan-shaped speck in the Atlantic. It’s one of the Canary Islands, a ...

The day two passenger jets became tragedies in the sky remains one of the most haunting moments in aviation history, a chilling reminder of how quickly routine operations can turn catastrophic. In ...

In March 1977, two fully loaded 747 passenger planes collided on a foggy runway on the island of Tenerife, killing everyone on the KLM plane and many on the Pan Am jet. It remains the deadliest crash ...

In the transcript, both Runway 12 and Runway 30 are mentioned. Both are actually the same runway; the difference lies in which direction a plane is facing as it travels along the runway. The KLM plane ...