Jon Ziomek has written a riveting account of the errors that unfolded before the worst civil aviation disaster in history, when on March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets—KLM Flight 4805 ...

Taking off or landing from a taxiway risks catastrophic collision like what remains the deadliest accident in history.

South Korea's worst aviation disaster in decades also was the ... Spanish investigators blamed the captain of the KLM 747 for taking off without clearance from air traffic controllers.