Gran Canaria
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Gran Canaria, also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. As of 2023 the isl
Autopistas in Gran Canaria provide rapid road transport around the coast
Gran Canaria Airport
The Tenerife catamaran ferry
Puerto de Mogán
Tenerife airport disaster
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On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on a runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife, killing 583 people and injuring 61 others in the deadliest accident in avi
Gran Canaria
…1977, a bomb went off in Gran Canaria Airport, the main airport on the island. Flights were diverted to the nearby Tenerife Airport: this led to the Tenerife airport disaster. Pliny claimed that the island was named for the dogs on the island, of which two were presented as a gift to Juba, King of Mauretania. This opinion…
Wreckage of Flight 4805 at Los Rodeos Airport
PH-BUF, the KLM Boeing 747-206B involved in the collision
N736PA, the Pan Am Boeing 747-121 involved, pictured three weeks before the collision
KLM captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten featured in a 1977 advertisement for the airline