Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain || Los Rodeos Airport

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village. Estimates suggest that anywhere between 200 to 500 people might have been killed in the crash.
(15 February 1996)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Los Rodeos Airport

Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain.

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Sunday 3rd of December 1972 (x) —
Sunday 27th of March 1977 (x) —
Neither airline was originally due to be at the airport but both were diverted from the much bigger Las Palmas airport on nearby Gran Canaria island after a terrorist bomb blast near the departure lounge. 61 people survived. The crash is the deadliest accident in aviation history.