Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...
In March 1977, a bomb threat diverted dozens of planes to a fog-covered airport in Tenerife. Two Boeing 747s, one from KLM and one from Pan Am, ended up on the same runway. One was still taxiing. The ...