When did the airport disaster which involved Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten as the captain happened?
Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten (5 February 1927 – 27 March 1977) was a Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor. He was the captain of the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 which was involved in the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history.
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was an international charter flight that, on 29 August 1996 at 10:22:23 Central European Summer Time, crashed in Operafjellet, Svalbard, Norway during the approach to Svalbard Airport, Longyear. All 141 people aboard the Tupolev Tu-154M were killed, making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in Norway. The accident was the result of a series of small navigational errors causing the aircraft to be 3.7 km from the approach centerline at the time of impact. The accident was investigated by the Accident Investigation Board Norway with assistance from the Interstate Aviation Committee and became known as the Operafjell Accident (Norwegian: "Operafjell-ulykken" ).