The crash ultimately killed 137 people, including 128 of the 152 passengers and eight of the 11 crew (including all three flight crew members), and the driver of the car.
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All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with two people on the ground. With 273 fatalities, it is the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States.
“Damn,” one of the pilots said. It would be the last word captured by the cockpit voice recorder. The plane continued to rise, its wings level, despite the nearly 13,500 pounds suddenly missing from its left side.
#1: The Tenerife Airport DisasterThe deadliest aviation accident in history actually occurred while on the ground, not in the air. In 1977, two fully loaded Boeing 747 passenger jets collided in the middle of a runway on Tenerife Island, killing 583 people.
What objects were found among the wreckage? Primarily airplane wreckage, some personal effects, and a very small amount of unidentified human remains were found.
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Pan Am Flight 1736 and KLM Flight 4805On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport), on the Spanish island of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The crash killed 583 people, making it the deadliest accident in aviation history.
In a bizarre Friday-the-13th coincidence, a flight bearing the number of the beast went straight to HEL today. That's right. Finnair Flight 666 took off from Copenhagen (CPH) and flew directly to Helsinki (HEL) on Friday. Even better?