Date:	05 MAY 1965
Time:	21:17
Type:	Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Operator:	Iberia
Registration:	EC-AIN
C/n / msn:	4550
First flight:	1954
Crew:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 9
Passengers:	Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 40
Total:	Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 49
Airplane damage:	Written off
Location:	Tenerife (Spain)
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD / LEMD), Spain
Destination airport:	Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport (TFN / GCXO)
Flightnumber:	401

Narrative:
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."

Source: www.aviation-safety.net

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