Another crash at Tenerife
NZPA-Reuter Santa Cruz de Tenerife
A Belgian Boeing 707 airliner has burned out after crash-landing at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, but officials say all 189 passengers and seven crew escaped unharmed.
The Belgian national airline, Sabena, which chartered the plane to the Belgian Sobelair company, said in Madrid yesterday that all on board were safe and there were no injuries.
The passengers were all tourists on a charter flight from Brussels to the Atlantic holiday island.
Sabena officials in Madrid said something had gone wrong with the front landing gear as the plane landed, and it had skidded on to its nose.
The Los Rodeso airport was the scene of the vorst air disaster ever on March 27, last year.
More than 580 people died in a crash on the runway between two Boeing 747 jets of Pan American World Airlines and K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines.
After the latest crash landing, flights in and out of Los Rodeso were suspended because wreckage was blocking the main runway.
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