ALAMEDA — It’s every airline passenger’s nightmare. Smoke billows from the aircraft’s first-class section and the plane comes to a sudden halt. You look up at the ceiling and molding — and you see ...

In March 1977, two jumbo jets collided at Tenerife Airport killing 583 people. It was the worst crash in aviation history. The two Boeing 747s were among those diverted from nearby Gran Canaria ...

In 1977, 583 lives were claimed when two 747 jets collided with each other on the runway of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. What the captain said in the final minutes stun to this day. On March 27, ...

A woman who survived the worst aviation disaster of all time has recalled how she saw a fellow passenger sliced in half by her seatbelt. Joani Feathers also saw another woman in curlers set alight ...

The 1977 collision of two jumbo jets at a tiny airport in the Canary Islands horrified the world. Watch as examiners sift through the evidence to untangle the chain of events that claimed the lives of ...

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, SPAIN – Two chartered Boeing 747 jumbo jets, one owned by Pan American airlines and the other by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, collided and burst into flames yesterday on a foggy ...

Last year was the safest year on record for airlines, with just two fatal accidents for commercial flights recorded. Aviation safety has continued to improve over the years. A lot of changes occurred ...

ALAMEDA — It’s every airline passenger’s nightmare. Smoke billows from the aircraft’s first-class section and the plane comes to a sudden halt. You look up at the ceiling and molding — and you see ...