Jamie Fly Aviation

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the deadliest aviation disaster in the world. This was when two Boeing 747s belonging to Pan Am and KLM collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport at the Island of Tenerife leaving 583 people dead and 61 survivors. The events, the coincidences and the errors that led to the disaster are incredible to believe. A terrorist attack at a different airport, Gando Airport that led to the diversion of all flights to Los Rodeos Airport, miscommunication, foggy weather and pilot error all played important roles in the crash. The interesting aspect of it is that all the events happened on the ground. forty years ago, Tenerife, a quiet Spanish island was suddenly home to the deadliest airline disaster in the world both then and now. The two planes were diverted to Los Rodeos Airport after a bomb explosion at Gando Airport, Las Palmas, Canary Island. The two 747s (a Pan Am) and (a KLM) ended up on an infrequently used runway. As the planes waited...

A harrowing freak air accident that has only just been revealed saw an Airbus A380 commercial jetliner flown by Emirates cause a much smaller business jet passing beneath it to flip upside down and plummet thousands of feet. The incident is a sharp reminder of why passengers should always wear their seat belts. According to information obtained by the  Aviation Herald , on the morning of 7 January an Emirates  Airbus A380-800  was flying from Dubai to Sydney. While the aeroplane was en route over the Arabian Sea, roughly about 630 nautical miles southeast of Muscat, a Bombardier  Challenger 604  business jet operated by German carrier MHS Aviation passed by 1,000ft beneath it. A thousand feet might seem like a great distance between two aeroplanes, but the wake turbulence caused by the A380 jetliner was so great that one minute after the airliner passed by above, very high G-force sent the business jet into an uncontrolled roll that turned the aircraft upsi...