At 5:06 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, 1977...
How did two passenger 747s wind up colliding on a remote Canary Islands runway? This book explains how.
Some reviews
Mark Martin, retired American Airlines pilot:
Gillian Flynn, award-winning author ("Gone Girl," "Sharp Objects") and television producer:
Gillian Flynn, award-winning author ("Gone Girl," "Sharp Objects") and television producer:
"Collision on Tenerife is compelling and engaging, taking the reader from how it happened to why it happened, and revealing the series of individually inconsequential decisions that perfectly aligned and resulted in disaster."
Gillian Flynn, award-winning author ("Gone Girl," "Sharp Objects") and television producer:
Gillian Flynn, award-winning author ("Gone Girl," "Sharp Objects") and television producer:
Gillian Flynn, award-winning author ("Gone Girl," "Sharp Objects") and television producer:
"Here we have – finally – a harrowing account, impressively researched and thoroughly reported, of the world's worst air disaster. Ziomek offers deep insight into not only the behavioral errors that led up to the disaster but also the psychological aspects of catastrophe and its aftereffects. A story that lingers in the mind long after the reading."
Comments from two survivors of the Tenerife aviation disaster:
Gillian Flynn, award-winning author ("Gone Girl," "Sharp Objects") and television producer:
Linda Hopkins, daughter of the survivors who started this project:
• "I am VERY impressed! You did a fantastic job of weaving many interviews into a coherent story of this most cataclysmic event" – David Alexander.
• "...how awesome your book is. It is the most well-written and detailed account of the 'real story' of the crash" – Joani Feathers.
Linda Hopkins, daughter of the survivors who started this project:
Linda Hopkins, daughter of the survivors who started this project:
Linda Hopkins, daughter of the survivors who started this project:
"This book tells the story of what my parents went through as they miraculously survived the crash. Yet, only those close to my mother would know the impact this crash had on everything she did for the remainder of her life."
Some questions about the accident:
Linda Hopkins, daughter of the survivors who started this project:
Some questions about the accident:
- Was there a single cause of the accident? No. There was a series of overlapping mistakes and coincidences that resulted in the collision of the two planes.
- Why were those two jets even at that airport? They weren't supposed to be. This is just one of the many horrible coincidences of the day. A terrorist bomb had diverted flights from a nearby island.
Linda Hopkins, daughter of the survivors who started this project:
Some questions about the accident:
• Did anyone survive? Yes. The Pan Am jet had 61 survivors. No one on the KLM jet survived, The death total was 583.
• Is flying safer now? Yes, although, as the book explains, it could be even safer with a few simple steps by passengers. Among other steps, all passengers should look at the safety card – and listen to the flight attendants.
Autumn 2020
Aviation History magazine's autumn 2020 issue includes a 3,000-word article about the Canary Islands disaster, written by Jon Ziomek, the book's author.
July 2019
The Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine has a Q&A with Jon Z. about the accident and the book in its July issue. Here's a link: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/reviews-crash-in-canary-islands-180972227/
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Here's a YouTube link to a recent interview on cable television about the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbkX19FLKk&feature=youtu.be
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WGN's legendary reporter Rick Kogan interviewed Jon Z. in June about Jon's reporting for the book. Here's a link to the interview: https://wgnradio.com/category/after-hours-with-rick-kogan/
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The Canary Islands are located off the northwest corner of Africa.
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