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Remembering Dan-Air Flight 1008

G-BDAN seen at Manchester Airport in 1974 G-BDAN [CC BY-SA 2.0]

While many are aware of the accident that occurred on March 27, 1977, when 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a foggy runway in Tenerife, less known is the island's second air disaster that took place some three years later. Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited from Manchester to Tenerife.

The crash, which occurred on 25th April 1980 in the forest in La Esperanza while the aircraft's flight deck crew wrongly executed an unpublished holding pattern in an area of very high ground, resulted in the aircraft's destruction and the deaths of all 146 on board (138 passengers and eight crew). Flight 1008 also marked the greatest loss of life in an air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft.

Remembering Dan-Air Flight 1008


A Turn Too Tight (Dan-Air Flight 1008)

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