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Tenerife airport disaster: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date March 27, 1977
Location Canary Islands • Spain • Tenerife

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Burned and broken wreckage of a large passenger airplane lies scattered on the ground after the Tenerife airport disaster, with the tail and fuselage sections heavily damaged.
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