Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World’s Worst Aviation Disaster by Jon Ziomek

Forty-five years ago this month, two 747 passenger jets collided on a Canary Islands runway, killing 583 in the worst aviation disaster ever. A complex series of mistakes and oversights led to this crash. This meticulously researched book explains how it happened, plus the impact of this disaster on the survivors and on the entire aviation industry. One survivor later called this book “the most well-written, detailed account of this crash.”