Tenerife North Airport

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Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte
Base de Los Rodeos
Plataforma tfn.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code GCXO
IATA code TFN
Coordinates

28 ° 28 ′ 58 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 30"  W Coordinates: 28 ° 28 ′ 58 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 30"  W
Height above MSL 632 m (2073  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Street TF5
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening May 3, 1946
operator Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 5,492,324 (2018)
Air freight 12,689 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		73,236 (2018)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		6.5 million
Start-and runway
12/30 3171 m × 45 m asphalt

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Tenerife North Airport, 2010

The Tenerife North Airport ( Spanish Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte until 1978 Aeropuerto Internacional de los Rodeos , English Tenerife North Airport ) is named after the Tenerife South Airport is the smaller of the two international airports in the Spanish island of Tenerife . The Spanish army uses the square as Base de los Rodeos as the stationing site of the Batallón de Helicópteros de Canarias (BHELMA VI) of its army aviators Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra (FAMET).

Location and transport links

The airport is located on a high plateau about 10 kilometers west of the island's capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the area of ​​the municipality of La Laguna .

history

The airport opened in 1946. In the course of its history there have been several serious accidents , not least due to its location, which is often caused by wind shear and thick fog . The plane disaster in Tenerife on March 27, 1977, which is the worst accident in the history of aviation without a terrorist background and therefore also the second worst ever, should be emphasized here .

In 1978 the new Tenerife South Airport was opened about 65 km away at El Médano , which has since handled a larger part of the island's air traffic; the local airport was renamed from “Los Rodeos” to “Tenerife Norte”. In 2006 about 30 percent of the passenger traffic and 70 percent of the freight traffic on the island were handled in Tenerife North. In the meantime, it has also been equipped with state-of-the-art flight control technology.

Airlines and Destinations

Tenerife North is not served directly from German-speaking countries. There are transfer connections with Iberia Express via Madrid and with Binter Canarias via Gran Canaria .

A total of 20 exclusively Spanish destinations are served in the winter flight schedule, including Asturias , Bilbao , Seville and Saragossa as well as all the Canary Islands.

Traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures for the Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte 2000–2018
year Passenger
volume		 Air freight
( tons )		 Flight
movements
2018 5,492,324 12,689 73,236
2017 4,706,827 13,233 61.102
2016 4,219,633 12,427 55,669
2015 3,815,316 12,819 53,260
2014 3,633,030 13,991 52,694
2013 3,524,470 13,494 49,289
2012 3,717,944 14,778 55,789
2011 4,095,103 15,745 62,604
2010 4,051,356 15,938 61,605
2009 4,054,147 18.305 62,776
2008 4,236,615 20,782 67,800
2007 4,125,131 25.169 65,843
2006 4,025,601 23,194 65,297
2005 3,754,513 22,163 60,235
2004 3,368,988 23,647 56,592
2003 2,919,087 23,842 53,718
2002 2,486,227 21,148 48,785
2001 2,511,277 21,060 49.132
2000 2,411,100 22,463 48.902

Incidents

From 1956 to October 2019 there were 13 total aircraft losses at the airport and in its vicinity. 952 people were killed. Examples:

  • On September 29, 1956, an Aviaco SNCASE Languedoc ( aircraft registration number EC-AKV ) crashed into a house on a flight from Málaga on approach near the airport. The 38 aircraft occupants survived, but one person was killed on the ground.
  • On February 8, 1965, a Douglas DC-7 C of Scandinavian Airlines (SE-CCC) had an accident while taking off for a flight to Copenhagen at Tenerife-Los Rodeos Airport. After taking off, the machine sank back onto the runway because the landing gear was retracted too early. The aircraft caught fire and was destroyed, but all 84 passengers and 7 crew members were able to leave the aircraft beforehand.
  • On May 5, 1965, an Iberia Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation (EC-AIN) from Madrid crashed while approaching. After a failed landing attempt in bad weather the machine collided with the go-around 50 meters from the runway with a bulldozer and broke in a field, with 30 of the 49 people on board died.
  • On September 16, 1966 had one of Spantax for Iberia operated Douglas DC-3 / C-47 (EC-ACX) shortly after takeoff because of an engine malfunction in the sea ditched be. Of the 27 people on board, 26 were able to save themselves from the slowly sinking machine; one passenger refused to disembark (see also Iberia flight 261 ) .
  • On December 3, 1972, the worst accident occurred to a Convair CV-990 . On the flight to Munich-Riem , the Spantax EC-BZR machine got out of control during take-off with almost zero visibility at an altitude of about 90 meters, overturned and finally crashed on the ground. All 148 passengers, mostly German vacationers, and seven crew members died (see Spantax flight 275 ) .
  • On 27 March 1977, a collision demanded two Boeing 747 "jumbo jets" 583 human lives by the collision of a no start release starting Boeing 747 of KLM (PH-BUF) with a Pan Am machine of the same type (N736PA) that are still on the Runway. Contributing factors to the most serious catastrophe in civil aviation without terrorist involvement were, among other things, the lack of ground radar in thick fog and interference in radio communication (see also the plane disaster in Tenerife ) .
  • On 15 February 1978, a continued Boeing 707 of Sabena (OO-SJE) of the runway, where the nose gear collapsed and the aircraft slid about 1,000 feet above the track until it came off the side of it. Three of the 196 inmates suffered minor injuries. The machine burned out.

Web links

Commons : Tenerife North Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed November 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Destinations. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed December 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Accident statistics Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport profile , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 7, 2019.
  7. ^ Accident report Languedoc EC-AKV , Aviation Safety Network (English) , accessed on January 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 68 (English), March 1998, pp. 98/26.
  9. ^ Accident report DC-7C SE-CCC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2020.
  10. ^ Accident report L-1049 EC-AIN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 21, 2016.
  11. ^ Accident report DC-3 EC-ARZ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 19, 2016.
  12. ^ Accident report DC-3 EC-ACX , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 21, 2016.
  13. ^ Accident report CV-990 EC-BZR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 20, 2016.
  14. ↑ 707 Flight International, February 25, 1978, p. 484 , (English), accessed on September 13, 2016.
  15. ^ Accident report B-707 OO-SJE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 13, 2016.
  16. ^ Accident report B-727-100 G-BDAN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 6, 2019.