Nine hours later, a US Navy aircraft from McMurdo Station sighted the wreckage a brown smear on the ice. This category is managed by the Disasters Project in association with the Categorization Project. The ill-fated Air New Zealand flight which crashed into the side of Antarcticas Mount Erebus on November 28, 1979, instantly killed all 257 crew and passengers on board. On 28 November 1979, the Air New Zealand DC10 with 257 people aboard took off from Auckland International Airport and flew 2000 miles southwards to the Antarctic, to plunge into the slopes of Mt Erebus, a 20,000-foot volcano. At the time of the disaster, it was the fourth-deadliest air crash of all time. The crash and subsequent inquiry resulted in major changes in Air New Zealands management. On the day of the Erebus disaster there was a one-hour time difference between New Zealand and McMurdo Station. 01 The break-in On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 took off from Auckland Airport on a sightseeing trip to Antarctica. NZST, the aircraft crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus, killing all on board. Nov - Dec 2009 Taupo Mana Island Manapouri NZ from sea Erebus Subscribe Polar sun flooded the DC10’s cabin, haloing passengers in ethereal light. This is one of New Zealand's two deadliest disasters – the other being the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people. At this moment on this day 40 years ago Air New Zealand Flight TE901 crashed into Mt Erebus killing all 257 passengers and crew Aotearoa New Zealand’s worst civil disaster in history. Four minutes and 42 seconds later, at 12.49 p.m. The accident is more commonly known as the Mount Erebus disaster. On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE-901, collided with Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. This category contains profiles of persons associated with the 1979 AirNZ Flight 901 (Mt Erebus) disaster.Īir New Zealand Flight 901 (TE-901) was a scheduled Air New Zealand Antarctic sightseeing flight that operated 1977-1979, from Auckland to Antarctica and return via Christchurch.
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