But the deadliest collision of two aircrafts - and the deadliest aviation accident - is the Tenerife airport disaster which ... and exploding in a ball of fire - due to the additional fuel it ...

In Collision on Tenerife, Jon Ziomek has written a riveting account of the errors that unfolded before the worst civil aviation disaster in ... and the airport at Tenerife didn’t have ground ...

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 ...

Both aircraft caught fire, with five of the six onboard the ... The deadliest aviation accident in history was the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided ...