The Most Lethal Australian Air Incident
The most lethal air accident in Australian history took place almost 60 years ago. It only killed a total of 29 people. (Correction: The greatest loss of life in an air accident in Australia was the Bakers Creek air crash in 1943 which caused 40 fatalities in a United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 FlyingFortress. This pales in comparison to the most deadly air incident. Two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife in 1977. It resulted in 583 fatalities.)