- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | April 25, 1980 |
Time: | 1321 |
Location: | Tenerife, Canary Islands |
Operator: | Dan Air Services |
Flight #: | 1008 |
Route: | Manchester - Tenerife |
AC Type: | Boeing B-727-64 |
Registration: | G-BDAN |
cn / ln: | 19279/288 |
Aboard: | 146 (passengers:138 crew:8) |
Fatalities: | 146 (passengers:138 crew:8) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The plane crashed into a mountain 5,500 ft. high at 300 mph during an approach to Tenerife. The pilot, while in a holding pattern, took the aircraft in an area of high ground not maintaining the correct altitude. Lack of communication between the pilot and co-pilot. |
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