30 years ago today (27th march)...

[Ivan]

Maybe some of the older guys remember the news pictures of this...
KLM and Pan Am 747s collided at Tenerife killing over 500.
Still #1 on the list of worst crashes.
For the record, #2 is the one with th Il-76 that had a midair with a Saudi 747 on Haji flight... because of metric / feet misreading

[expat]

Should be able to beat it with one A380.............That's progress

Matt

[Apex]

A mention of this on the news yesterday.  I remember when that happened.  There's also been some rather close calls since then that would have resulted in a similar disaster had the worst happened.  583 (?) peopled died.

[ATI_7500]

Should be able to beat it with one A380....

I had a similar thought while reading this...but more in the terms of "Peanuts...sheesh! Two A380....now that would go "bang"!"