He has also written about the growing number of deadly airline disasters caused by confused pilots, and about sandwiches. (macleans.ca)
Joining us is Cockpit Confidential author and commercial airline pilot Patrick Smith to detail the difficulties of airline disaster investigations. (petergreenberg.com)
In fact, the world's worst airline disaster happened on a runway in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, in 1977, when a KLM pilot at the helm of a Boeing 747 mistakenly thought the controller had cleared him for takeoff and his plane slammed into a Pan American 747 taxiing on the same runway. (discovermagazine.com)