R.I.P. Bob Bragg. Last Surviving Pilot From Tenerife Dies at 79

In Ask the Pilot: R.I.P. Bob Bragg. The last surviving pilot of the Tenerife disaster dies at 79. Meeting Bob Bragg in 2006 was one of the great thrills of my life. It wasn't about heroics or bravery or any of that. It was about the sheer momentousness of the disaster — the almost unbelievable chain of events that led to it, and its subsequent place in history. To have been a being witness to that — no, to have been part of it, right there in the cockpit! Bob Bragg was a giant. (www.askthepilot.com) More...