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Collision on Tenerife

The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster

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Collision on Tenerife

By: Jon Ziomek, Caroline Hopkins - contributor
Narrated by: Charles Constant
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The world's worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided after a horrendous series of human errors.

One of the jets, KLM Flight 4805, was traveling more than 150 miles an hour and was within seconds of lifting off when it crashed into Pan Am Flight 1736 taxiing in its path. The loss of lives was staggering - 583 dead. The crash happened after a lengthy series of major and minor human errors. In the intervening years, has aviation advanced to the point that such a disaster can't happen again?

In this riveting account, written from the perspective of the passengers in the cabin as well as the crew members in the cockpits, Jon Ziomek explains how this largely forgotten accident took place - and what has happened since to reduce the possibility of another such catastrophe.

©2018 Jon Ziomek (P)2020 Tantor Air Forces Armed Forces Engineering Military Aviation
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Although a macabre topic, an excellent report on what happened unfortunately to human error. I am amazed some passengers actually survived to help tell this story and what happened. I remember as a child seeing vision of this on the news on TV and never forgotten about it. So it was interesting to read the whole story now I can appreciate the research.

Well researched tribute to those who died.

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