Deadliest Aviation Accident In History
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The First Commercial Flight of Seven Forty Sevens
Both of these flights were actually meant to go to a different airport. But when both planes were in route to the canary islands, there was a terrorist attack at that airport. All the flights were diverted to los roder's airport on tenerief island which was about 60 nautical miles away. The kl m flight landed first, and the pan am flight landed around two 15 p m. And this airport they diverted to, the osrades airport, wasn't very well equipped to handle this influx of traffic. It only had one runway and one parallel taxi way, and four little connecting taxi ways between them. You can think of these as like a off ramps on a highway
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