The Tenerife Airport Disaster remains the deadliest aviation accident in history. Discover how miscommunication and unfortunate circumstances led to tragedy.

“Evacuate the airport, we’ve planted bombs,” a terrorist ... The planes are diverted to the neighboring island of Tenerife. Loaded with passengers, they’re forced to sit on the hot tarmac ...

And every time one happened, air safety authorities would refer to the Tenerife Airport disaster. In March 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at an airport on the Spanish ...