So these are plane crashes from around the world, but it's only for the countries that had a true crime case, if you don't see a plane crash in here, check my True crime from around the world book.
Warning, this book contains plane crashes and video...
These plane crashes take us to the European country of Spain, which is located next to Portugal, France and Andorra and the territories Spain owns is located in the Atlantic Ocean and is located near Morocco and Western Sahara.
WARNINGS OF PLANE CRASHES
Number one- The Tenerife Airport Disaster.
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Pictured above is the first plane involved in this accident.
Pictured below is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this accident (the original photo, which was the accident Pan Am plane was too big).
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The Tenerife Airport Disaster occurred on the 27th of March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets, which were diverted to the airport after the two plane's destination airport of Grand Canaria Airport (IATA: LPA, ICAO: GCLP) was closed due to a bomb going off in the terminal and the calls of another bomb in the area, collided on the runway in heavy fog at Los Rodeos Airport (which is now Tenerife North Airport, IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), on the Spanish island of Tenerife, the collision occurred when KLM Flight 4805, registered as Papa Hotel- Bravo Uniform Foxtrot (PH-BUF), initiated it's takeoff run while Pan Am Flight 1736, registered as November 736 Papa Alpha (N736PA), was still on the runway, the impact and resulting fire killed everyone on board KLM 4805 and most of the occupants of Pan Am Flight 1736, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the Pan Am aircraft, the collision resulted in 583 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest accident in aviation history.
The Captain of the Pan Am flight applied full power and turned his massive plane sharply to the left in an attempt to avoid the impending collision with KLM, by the time the KLM pilots saw the Pan Am plane, they were to fast to stop, so they prematurely rotated in an attempt to clear the Pan Am by lifting off, this caused a 22 meter (72 feet) long tail strike, the KLM was within 330 feet of the Pan Am plane and at a speed of approximately 260 kilometres per hour when the KLM left the ground, the nose landing gear cleared the Pan Am plane, but the left side engines, the lower fuselage and the main landing gear struck the upper right side of the Pan Am's fuselage, ripping apart the centre of the jet directly above the wing, the right engines of the KLM crashed through the upper deck directly behind the cockpit, the impact sheared off the outer left engine of KLM (Engine Number one) which caused several amounts of materials to be ingested by the inner left engine of KLM (Engine number 2) which also damaged the KLM's wing, the KLM 747 stalled and rolled sharply, the plane hit the ground 500 feet (150 meters) past the collision location, the plane went sliding down the runway for a further 1,000 feet (300 meters), the full load of fuel on the KLM ignited immediately into a fireball that couldn't be subdued for several hours, all 248 people on board the KLM plane were killed in the collision, 335 people were killed on the Pan Am plane, 61 people survived all of which were on the Pan Am plane (there were 583 total fatalities), this makes it the deadliest crash in commercial aviation history.
The summary of the crash was a Runway Collision in fog.
Below is a video, which explains what happened that day, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.
Below is another video which also explains what happened that day, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
Pictured below is the accident aircraft, photographed in August 1983.
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Avianca Flight 011, registered as Hotel Kilo- 2910 Xray (HK-2910X), was a Boeing 747-200B on a scheduled international passenger flight from Frankfurt Airport (IATA: FRA, ICAO: EDDF), Frankfurt, Germany, to El Dorado International Airport (IATA: BOG, ICAO: SKBO), Bogatá, Colombia, with stopovers at Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG), Paris, France, Madrid Barajas Airport (IATA: MAD, ICAO: LEMD), Madrid, Spain and a final stopover at Caracas Simon Bolivar International Airport (IATA: CCS, ICAO: SVMI), Caracas, Venezuela, the plane crashed near Madrid on the 24th of November 1983, during the ILS approach to Runway 33 at Madrid, the 747 crashed on a hill approximately 12 kilometres southeast of the airport, the crash killed 181 people, including 19 on duty and 4 off duty crew members, the 11 surviving passengers were seriously injured, as of 2023, the crash remains the second deadliest aviation accident in Spanish territory, it's the deadliest in mainland Spain and is the deadliest accident in the history of Avianca.
At 00:03am local time, the aircraft contacted ATC and was cleared to land on Runway 33, this was the last contact ATC had with the plane, the accident took place in the township of Mejorada del Campo, approximately 12 kilometres southeast of Madrid Airport. The time was approximately 00:06am local time on the 27th of November, the plane hit three different hills on it's way down during the crash, with the third hill being the final impact, the crash killed 158 passengers, 19 crew and 4 off duty crew, 11 passengers survived the crash, of the 11 injured, 9 were ejected from the plane, the plane was completely destroyed by the impact and the ensuing fire.
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain due to pilot error, navigational error and ATC error.
Below is a video which explains what happened on the day of the crash, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.
