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 ...

two Boeing 747 passenger jets—KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736—collided on a runway at Tenerife island, killing 583 people. Ziomek spoke with Air & Space senior associate editor Diane ...

This aircraft is a Boeing 747 carrying 234 ... and are sitting in the cockpit jumpseats. It departed from Los Angeles bound for the same intended destination as KLM 4805—Las Palmas's Gran ...