Airplane Crash - Tenerife, Canary Islands 04/25/1980
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Tenerife, Canary Islands
| Date | 04/25/1980 |
| Time | 13:21 |
| Location | Tenerife, Canary Islands |
| Operator | Dan Air Services |
| Flight # | 1008 |
| Route | Manchester - Tenerife |
| Type | Boeing B-727-64 |
| Registration | G-BDAN |
| Cn/In | 19279/288 |
| Aboard | 146 |
| Fatalities | 146 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The plane crashed into a mountain 5,500 ft. high at 300 mph during an approach to Tenerife. The pilot, while in a holding pattern, took the aircraft in an area of high ground not maintaining the correct altitude. Lack of communication between the pilot and co-pilot. |
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