10 Worst aircraft accidents and incidents

Tenerife Disaster
1977
Location: Tenerife Airport, Canary Islands
Fatalities: 583
Survivors: 61

Fortunately for us, the deadliest airplane accident in history is the sort of thing that could never happen twice. It’s amazing enough that this happened even once, and it stands as proof that a great number of things usually have to go wrong before a disaster can occur.After a terrorist bombing at Gran Canaria (Las Palmas) International Airport, five large aircraft and a number of small aircraft that had been scheduled to stop there were diverted to the Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife. Los Rodeos was a much smaller airport, with one runway with a parallel taxiway and four exits between them. Planes usually taxied up the taxiway, then turned onto the runway and took off. In these extremely cramped conditions however, the parked aircraft took up a significant amount of the taxiway, meaning that a plane had to taxi up the runway and then somehow turn around to take off.