March 27, 2023. Tenerife at 46.

With so many runway incursions in the news, it’d be remiss of me (or else a gesture of the poorest taste) not to mention that today marks the 46th anniversary of the collision at Tenerife — the worst disaster in aviation history.

I was only nine at the time, but I remember my father calling me to the TV as the news showed grainy footage from an island I’d never heard of.