Dan-Air Flight 1008
G-BDAN, the aircraft involved in the accident | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 25 April 1980 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error |
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| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 727-46 |
| Operator | Dan-Air Services Ltd |
| IATA flight No. | DA1008 |
| ICAO flight No. | DAN1008 |
| Call sign | DAN-AIR 1008 |
| Registration | G-BDAN |
| Flight origin | Manchester Airport, United Kingdom |
| Destination | Tenerife North Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain |
| Occupants | 146 |
| Passengers | 138 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 146 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Dan-Air Flight 1008 was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 727-46 jet aircraft operated by Dan Air Services Limited on an 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on 25 April 1980 in a forest on Tenerife's Mount La Esperanza, when the aircraft's flight crew wrongly executed an unpublished holding pattern in an area of very high terrain; it resulted in the aircraft's destruction and the deaths of all 146 on board (138 passengers and eight crew). 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.