Status:
Datum:	05 MAI 1965
Zeit:	21:17
Flugzeugtyp:	Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Fluggesellschaft:	Iberia
Kennzeichen:	EC-AIN
Werknummer:	4550
Baujahr:	1954
Besatzung:	Todesopfer: 6 / Insassen: 9
Fluggäste:	Todesopfer: 24 / Insassen: 40
Gesamt:	Todesopfer: 30 / Insassen: 49
Sachschaden:	Zerstört
Konsequenzen:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Unfallort:	Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport (TFN) (Spanien)
Flugphase:	Annäherung (APR)
Betriebsart:	Inländischer planmäßiger Passagierflug
Flug von:	Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD), Spanien
Flug nach:	Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport (TFN/GCXO), Spanien
Flugnummer:	401

Unfallbericht:
The aircraft had been cleared for a runway 30 approach when the approach controller informed the crew that visibility was below minima with clouds 6/8 stratus from 0-30m.
The pilot made a very low run and initiated a go-around and made another approach to land. The crew had to go around again but the aircraft struck a scraper and a tractor located 50m from the runway edge. The Constellation crashed and broke up in farmland.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot-in-command should have proceeded in view of the adverse weather conditions prevailing at the airport, which he should have appreciated during his first fly-past. His partial view of the airport and the glow of lights must have induced him to make a new attempt with the consequences described above."

Informationsquelle:
» ICAO Circular 88-AN/74 (100-103)