| - | 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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