Essays on Tenerife

The Tenerife Crash was an event between two airplanes of the same model, Boeing 747 from two different companies: KLM and Pan-Am. Both planes had the same destination; the Gran Canarias Airport, but, a bomb explosion and a threat of a second bomb in the airport obliged the airport authorities to shut down the airport and divert all the air traffic to a smaller airport in Tenerife North, called Los Rodeos Airport. The accident consisted in a crash between the two airplanes in the air. Both airplanes received the same instruction from Control Tower causing the crash between the ...

BUSINESS

Several airplane crashes have become a part of aviation history but this one that took place about four decades ago is still regarded as one of the most horrifying air plane crash in which more than six hundred people lost their lives. The crash took place at the Tenerife airport which is located in the region of Atlantic. It has never been a popular place before this plane crash of history. Tenerife is governed by the Spanish government and it is situated some hundred or more miles from the Moroccan coast. The airport is a small one and is ...

Introduction

Faster travel time, a feat of human imagination and a masterpiece of engineering. These are but some of the things that airplanes embody in the world. While there have been many records and variations throughout history of emulating flight, it was the Wright Brothers that finally made modern aircrafts possible back in 1903 . Since then the “aeroplane” has been used in many situations of human history. Such situations include public transportation, combat and even entertainment. This invention did not come without a price however; just as when dynamite was used in manners that were against the wishes of Alfred Nobel (leading ...