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 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 ...
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 ...