Two 747 jetliners collide in Canary Islands

A spokesm an for the Dutch airline KLM said all 235 p assen ­ gers and 14 crew m em bers aboard its Boeing 747 w ere killed w hen it collided with a Pan A m erican Boeing 747. Pan American officials in London said the ir plane was carrying 380 passengers and 16 crew m en. In Los A ngeles, w here the Pan American flight originated, officials said the plane had 370 passengers. A irport officials said 105 p assen ­ gers and an unknown num ber of crew m em bers had survived from the Pan A m erican plane. KLM presiden t Sergio O rlandini reported the D utch plane w as traveling a t a takeoff speed of a b o u t.156 miles per hour w hen it collided with the Pan A m erican craft th a t also w as m aneuvering for takeoff. Pan A m erican officials in New York said th a t the Pan A m erican plane was crossing a runw ay when the collision took place and tha t both p lanes w ere in the process of taking off. Both airlines repeated ly revised the num ber of people believed aboard the p lanes.