On this day in history

[Canarian Weekly]

ON 27th March 1977 one of the most tragic aviation accidents in history took place here in Tenerife in a collision between two Boeing 747´s on the runway at Los Rodeos airport. The aircraft involved, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, which, along with many other aircraft, diverted to Tenerife from Gran Canaria [...]

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[amanda]

remember well saw the pam am flight coming in from las palmas was stitting on the beach at san andres tragic

[bonitatime]

We were here but I was little
I just remember the Hulabaloo as everyone had to go home via Las Palmas Although by the time we went home the were flying from Los Rodeos again.

[timmylish]

My first wife wife and I were in the air 20 minutes away from supposed landing at LR and obviously diverted although we did fly over the general area of SC!

[marbro8]

wow i didn't know that:( i know that one of my best friends has never flown again because he was on a flight from tenerife to manchester in the 80's and they had an emergency landing:(

[Ecky Thump]

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3/10/1957

The Soviet Union launches the first animal into space—a dog name Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Laika, part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for several days as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth satellite.