Tenerife, March 27, 1977 – A day etched in sorrow as two Boeing 747s collided on a foggy runway, claiming 583 lives in the deadliest aviation disaster ever. A bomb in Las Palmas diverted the KLM and Pan Am jets to Tenerife, where miscommunication and human error turned a routine flight into a fiery catastrophe. Survivors like James Naik recall the horror: “The plane was burning, people screaming—it was over in seconds.” From this tragedy, global aviation learned lessons that reshaped safety forever.
