![]() ![]() The conclusion was the accident was caused by a correction made to the route the night before the disaster, and they failed to inform pilot Captain Jim Collins and co-pilot Greg Cassin. This map shows the actual flight path of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 on 28 November 1979 (solid red line) before it crashed on the lower slopes of Mt Erebus. The original investigation showed it was the pilot's fault, but people protested and it led to an inquiry into the crash. Marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster, this is the first book on that tragedy written by a member of one of the affected. None of the 257 people on board the plane survived the crash. Because the weather conditions of the Antarctic were so bad (severely limiting visibility), and the crew believed they were following the original flight plan-the plane crashed straight into Mount Erebus. The flight's route had been changed without the crew's knowledge shortly before the plane took off. It was supposed to loop between Auckland, New Zealand, and Antarctica. NZST, and from around noon it had ongoing contact with both 'Mac Centre', the United States Navy's air traffic control centre at McMurdo Station. The McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 was scheduled to arrive over Antarctica between 12 and 1 p.m. ![]() On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 crashed into the. Warning: the content of this video may be upsetting to some people. It was a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. NZDT on 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand Flight TE901 left Mngere airport, Auckland, for its 11-hour return flight to Antarctica. It was New Zealands biggest peacetime disaster - and some say the nations biggest cover-up. The final moments aboard Air New Zealand flight TE901 before it crashed into Mount Erebus. It was New Zealands worst civil aviation disaster and at the time, the fourth worst in the world. Most of the wreckage of Flight 901 remains at the accident site.ħ7☂5′30″S 167☂7′30″E / 77.42500°S 167.45833☎ / -77.42500 167.45833Īir New Zealand Flight 901 was a flight that operated from 1977 to 1979. On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashed into Mt Erebus, Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board. Debris from the DC-10's fuselage photographed in 2004. NZST, the aircraft crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. ![]()
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