AMSTERDAM — February 16, 2007 —The Foundation Relatives Victims Tenerife today announced they have donated the International Tenerife Memorial to the island’s authorities. The Cabildo accepted the monument with gratitude: an artwork 18 metres tall designed by the Dutch artist Rudi van de Wint. Construction of the base for the International Tenerife Memorial is now underway and running according to plan. The Corten steel monument arrived on the Canary island of Tenerife unharmed at the end of January, aboard ship from Flushing (Vlissingen). The artwork, entitled ‘De Wenteltrap´(literally translated, spiral staircase) will serve as a monument to commemorate all the victims of the largest disaster in the history of civil aviation, which occurred on March 27, 1977 at Los Rodeos airport, Tenerife-Norte (TFN). KLM Boeing 747 flight number KL4805 crashed on the runway into a Boeing 747 of Pan American Airlines (Pan Am 1736). All 248 people aboard the KLM aircraft died; 335 of the 396 aboard the Pan Am aircraft perished, with 61 survivors. The International Tenerife Memorial is being sited on the Mesa Mota mountain, in the municipality of San Cristóbal de la Laguna. On March 27, 2007 the unique artwork monument will be unveiled in the presence of Spanish, American and Dutch surviving relatives and government representatives. Prior to the formal dedication, for the first time since the disaster occurred 30 years ago there will be an international memorial service in the Auditorio de Tenerife, in the port of the capital, Santa Cruz. Dutch and Spanish heads of state have been invited to both ceremonies. At the Foundation’s request a Dutch travel agency has arranged a special trip, which has been taken up by a number of people. Others will arrive using their own arrangements. The Foundation has also made a breakthrough in terms of contacting American survivors and surviving relatives. The first of these have already registered. They will fly via Amsterdam aboard the special flight to Tenerife. About the Foundation Relatives Victims Tenerife The Foundation Relatives Victims Tenerife was set up at the beginning of 2002. The non-profit organisation works towards its central objective: providing a substantial contribution to dealing with and commemorating the Tenerife air disaster of March 27, 1977, while emphatically not being involved in factual and legal issues of culpability and thus not devoting attention to blame or liability. Foundation for the Surviving Relatives of the Tenerife Disaster P.O. Box 222 2100 AE Heemstede The Netherlands info@tenerife-memorial.org Telephone: +31-20-658.06.28 Fax: +31-20-560.89.70 © 2007 Foundation Relatives Victims Tenerife, Amsterdam