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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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Riveting, this has opened my eyes to the real tragedy of the Tenerife disaster. One of my favourite books to date

A must read/listen

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Heartbreaking and fascinating. A deep dive into the hows, the whys and the whos of the worst air crash in history.

By the end I felt I knew these people.

Well narrated too.

Fascinating

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This book is not just an investigation of the physical crash but the emotion od actual passengers before and after the cataclysmic event.

Fascinating

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This book is a pin in time and shows what normal people can endur and how air travel was (I remember people smoking on planes).
Heartbreaking and life affirming.
The info on behaviour was fascinating.
bravo. 5 * thoroughly recommended

the things humans can endure is breathtaking

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Don’t worry about the poor reviews that state this book is just a list of plane passengers.
Ok, the first few chapters is a bit like that, but this is a book about these people as well as the crash.

It was very informative and interesting

Definitely recommend

Very interesting

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