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Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
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Avianca Flight 011
1983 plane crash near Madrid, Spain
Avianca Flight 011 was a Boeing 747-200BM Combi on an international scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt to Bogotá via Paris, Madrid, and Caracas that crashed near Madrid on 27 November 1983. It took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris at 22:25 on 26 November 1983…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Boeing 747
American wide-body four-engined jet long-range aircraft
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2+1⁄2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%. In…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Madrid
Capital and largest city of Spain
Madrid is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), second only to Berlin, Germany, and its metropolitan area…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Madrid–Barajas Airport
International airport serving Madrid, Spain
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is the main international airport serving Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area. At 3,050 ha in area, it is the second-largest airport in Europe by physical size behind Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In 2019, 61.8 million…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)