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Mt Erebus air crash 

-New Zealand History

The morning of 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand

left an airport in Auckland, for an 11-hour return from

sightseeing in Antarctica.

At 12.49 pm the aircraft crashed into the slopes of mt Erebus

Killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew onboard. It was New Zealand’s worst civil disaster in New Zealand History.

A search and rescue aircraft was sent to Antarctica. The wreckage was sighted at the start of the sloping mountain.

A National Mt Erebus memorial will be unveiled in 2020.

Mt Erebus air crash

-Stuff

The wide-bodied DC10 jet operated by Air New Zealand flew into the lower slopes of the world's southernmost active volcano, the 3794-meter-high Mt Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board the Air New Zealand sightseeing flight. Chief air accident inspector accused them of flying to low he was obviously suspicious of them not following airline orders. 

Mt Erebus air crash

-Google

Air New Zealand Flight 901 was a scheduled Air New Zealand Antarctic sightseeing flight that operated between 1977 and 1979. The flight would leave Auckland Airport in the morning and spend a few hours flying over the Antarctic continent.

 Photos and maps

This is the DC-10 air new Zealand.

Flight 901 was the deadliest flight in the history of air new Zealand.