Accident | |
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Date | 25 April 1980 |
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 |
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on 25 April 1980 in a forest on Tenerife's Mount La Esperanza when the aircraft's flight deck crew wrongly executed an unpublished holding pattern in an area of very high ground; it resulted in the aircraft's destruction and the deaths of all 146 on board (138 passengers and eight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]