The Tenerife airport disaster was a fatal collision between two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft which occurred on Sunday , March 27 , 1977 , on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport ( now known as Tenerife North Airport ) , on the Spanish island of Tenerife , one of the Canary Islands .
The Tenerife airport disaster happened on March 27 , 1977 , when two Boeing 747s collided on the ground of Los Rodeos Airport ( now Tenerife North Airport ) .