#goodlongread describes about everything Langewiesche writes. I let my Atlantic subscription lapse long ago, but still sign up for a year of Vanity Fair now and then, and Langewiesche gives credibility to my "I only get it for the articles" excuse. An experienced pilot, he can make a readable article about turning an airplane. Among his work at The Atlantic, the stories on Columbia's Last Flight and The Crash of EgyptAir 990 stand out.

http://www.theatlantic.com/william-langewiesche/

The Estonia tragedy was an example in Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable, which claimed that people involved in disasters typically don't panic.