Dan-Air Flight 1008

Dan-Air Flight 1008

G-BDAN, the aircraft involved, seen in 1974, six years prior to the accident.
Accident
Date	25 April 1980 (1980-04-25)
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error
Site	Near Tenerife North Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 28°23′53″N 16°25′05″W / 28.39806°N 16.41806°W / 28.39806; -16.41806
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 727-46
Operator	Dan-Air Services Ltd
IATA flight No.	DA1008
ICAO flight No.	BAIN1008
Call sign	DAN-AIR 1008
Registration	G-BDAN
Flight origin	Manchester Airport, United Kingdom
Destination	Tenerife North Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Occupants	146
Passengers	138
Crew	8
Fatalities	146
Survivors	0

Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on an unscheduled international passenger service from Manchester to Tenerife. The accident occurred on 25 April 1980 in a forest on Tenerife's Mount La Esperanza when the aircraft's flight deck crew wrongly executed an unpublished holding pattern in an area of very high ground; it resulted in the aircraft's destruction and the deaths of all 146 on board (138 passengers and eight crew).^{[1]: 4 [2]} Flight 1008 was Dan-Air's second major accident in ten years and the worst accident involving the deaths of fare-paying passengers in the airline's entire history.^{[citation needed]}