Like most other aviation calamities, the 583 people killed in 1977 when a KLM 747 struck a Pan Am 747 at Tenerife resulted not from a single error or failure, but from a chain of improbable errors and failures, together with a ...
Southwest Airlines began their fantastic rise to becoming one of the nation's top airlines 40 years ago today. Here are 10 of our favorite photos of Southwest jets in action.