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* 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 ( all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am ).
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1977 and Tenerife
* On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s ( a KLM and a Pan Am ) collided on the runway in heavy fog at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, killing 583 people, the worst single aviation accident on record.
Clipper Victor, which was the first Boeing 747 to carry fare-paying passengers in 1970 ( N736PA ), was involved in the Tenerife disaster on March 27, 1977 the deadliest air disaster in aviation history.
On March 27, 1977, Bragg was the first officer for Pan Am Flight 1736, one of the Boeing 747s lost in the Tenerife airport disaster.
The 27 March 1977, Tenerife disaster remains the accident with the highest number of airliner passenger fatalities.
It was the deadliest plane crash of all time until the Tenerife disaster in 1977.
His parents were both survivors of the collision of two 747s on Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 1977.
It was also the third deadliest aircraft disaster overall, after the Tenerife airport disaster of 1977 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981.
Krier has applied his theories in several large-scale, detailed plans for cities in the Western world, including: Kingston upon Hull ( 1977 ), Rome ( 1977 ), Luxembourg ( 1978 ), West Berlin ( 1980 – 83 ), Bremen ( 1980 ), Stockholm ( 1981 ), Poing Nord, Munich ( 1983 ), Washington D. C, ( 1984 ), Atlantis, Tenerife ( 1988 ) and Poundbury ( 1989 ).
Hamann and his wife Frances died on March 27, 1977 in the Tenerife airport disaster, a collision of two Boeing 747s in the Canary Islands.
The world's worst airliner disaster is the Tenerife crash of 1977, when miscommunications between and amongst air traffic control and an aircrew caused two fully laden jets to collide on the runway, killing 583 people.
In the 1977 Tenerife disaster, a PanAm and a KLM Boeing 747 collided on the runway, killing 583 people, the highest number of fatalities ( excluding ground fatalities ) of any single accident in aviation history.
* Lido Martiánez a. k. a Lago Martiánez ( 1977, Large " semi natural " open air sea-water pool complex in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife ).
* 27 March 1977 – the Tenerife disaster ; a senior KLM pilot failed to hear, understand or follow tower instructions, causing two Boeing 747s to collide on the runway at Tenerife ; 583 people were killed in the worst-ever air disaster.
1977 and airport
* Alia Baha el-Din Toukan H. M. Queen Alia al-Hussein ( 1948 – 1977 ), on 24 December 1972, after whom Jordan's international airport ( Queen Alia International Airport ) is named.
In 1977, the airport handled over 5 million passengers annually.
* The 1977 crash of a chartered DC-3 carrying the entire University of Evansville men's basketball team, in a field near the Evansville, Indiana airport.
However, there have been several past short-lived attempts to establish intercontinental service from the airport since the airport was first granted authority to receive intercontinental service in 1977.
This airport was built in 1977 as an exact replica of the Keetmanshoop, Namibia airport.
In order to recognize the role the airport carries in meeting the regional demands for aviation services, the airport was renamed the Gainesville Regional Airport in October 1977.
The airport was opened in 1977. north of Gothenburg, were moved to Landvetter in 1977.
* On 15 May 1977, during the annual International Air Fair, a Bell 206 was in a mid-air collision with a de Havilland Tiger Moth at the airport.
Kérékou survived numerous attempts to oust him, including an attack by mercenaries at the airport in Cotonou in January 1977 as well as two coup attempts in 1988.
The current Sharjah Airport was built in the 1970s and was opened on 1 January 1977, replacing an airport closer to the city that had been opened in 1932 for use by Imperial Airways and which was subsequently used by the RAF until 14 December 1971.
The station opened as Heathrow Central on 16 December 1977 as the final phase of the Piccadilly Line's extension from Hounslow West to the airport.
The station opened on 19 July 1975 in the first phase of the extension of the line from Hounslow West to Heathrow Airport and remained the terminus until Heathrow Central opened at the airport on 16 December 1977.
The new " Diagoras " airport was built in 1977.
On January 20, 1977, when the airport was receiving all of Brazil's major international flights, this new terminal was opened and all scheduled passenger flights were transferred to the new building.
* May 29, 1977, Istanbul, Turkey: a double bombing in railroad station and airport killed five persons and wounded 64.
The airport on Napuka was inaugurated in 1977.
The airport was sanctioned after a long period of struggle which began in 1977 under the leadership of freedom fighter K. P. Kesava Menon.
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