[jwparkerjr]

Wasn't using the wrong runway the cause for the worst aviation disaster in history, at Tennerife (sp?) lots of years ago? Heavy fog and one of the jumbo jets was on the wrong runway? I could be wrong, but it seems to me like that was the scenario.

[BluH2o]

Wasn't using the wrong runway the cause for the worst aviation disaster in history, at Tennerife (sp?) lots of years ago?

March 27 1977 two 747's (KLM flight being one of them) collided on the same runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. One aircraft was taxiing the other taking off. Both aircraft had been diverted to Tenerife from landing at the airport on the nearby island of Canaris ... as a result of a bomb scare at that airport.