25 Apr 1980: Boeing 727-46 — Dan-Air Services

146 fatalities • Esperanzo Forest

Accident narrative

Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on a chartered 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on 25 April 1980 in a forest on Tenerife's Mount La Esperanza, when the aircraft's flight crew wrongly executed an unpublished holding pattern in an area of very high terrain; it resulted in the aircraft's destruction and the deaths of all 146 on board. 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, and the seventh deadliest involving a Boeing 727.

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Investigation report by Wikidata contributors. Original record: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5213023. This page is a structured re-presentation; facts and quotes are in the CC0 (Wikidata).

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