Fatal Events Since 1970 for KLM
The following events are those involving at least one passenger death where the aircraft flight had a direct or indirect role. Excluded would be events where the only passengers killed were stowaways, hijackers, or saboteurs.
- 27 March 1977; KLM 747-200 and Pan Am 747-100; Tenerife, Canary Islands: The aircraft had been on a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to the Las Palmas airport in the Canary Islands, but had been diverted to Tererife because of a bomb explostion in the passenger terminal in Las Palmas. Because of limited visibility and communications difficulties between air traffic control and the KLM aircraft, the KLM 747 started its takeoff while the Pan Am aircraft was on the same runway. All 234 passengers and 14 crew were killed in the KLM 747. Nine of the 16 crew and 321 of the 380 passengers on the Pan Am flight were killed.
- 7 October 1981; NLM CityHopper F28-4000; Moerdijk, Netherlands: Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft entered an area of severe thunderstorm activity. The aircraft apparently had a catastrophic in flight structural failure due to an encounter with a tornado. It was seen to emerge from the clouds with its right wing broken away. All four crew members and 13 passengers were killed.
- 4 April 1994; KLM Cityhopper Saab 340; Amsterdam, Netherlands: About 20 minutes after departure, the crew initiated an air turn back due to an engine problem. Just before landing, the crew abandoned the landing, then for unknown reasons lost control and crashed near the runway. One of the three crew members and two of the 21 passengers were killed.
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Fatal Events Since 1970 for KLM
http://airsafe.com/events/airlines/klm.htm -- Revised: 2 February 2008
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