For Aussies, Mac Job's air Crash series, the history of Australian aviation, told through every airline crash in Australia.
For others, the Air Disaster series - good, factual writing on disasters of the jet age of aviation.
Fiction: Gostrider One by Gerry Carroll, also author of North SAR, Gostrider is a book about flying Skyhawks and Phantoms in Vietnam. Unfortunately Corroll died in 1993.