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The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) [nb 1] flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. [1] [2] Air New Zealand had been operating scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flights since 1977.
Western Airlines Flight 2605, nicknamed the "Night Owl", [2] was an international scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to Mexico City, Mexico.On October 31, 1979, at 5:42 a.m. CST (UTC−06:00), the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 used on the flight crashed at Mexico City International Airport in fog after landing on a runway that was closed for maintenance.
The wreckage was scattered over a large area of a glacier covered with snow. Over the decades, several search expeditions were only able to recover a small amount of debris, and searches for the flight recorders were unsuccessful. The accident remains the highest-altitude controlled flight into terrain in commercial aviation history.
The plane crash at the center of Netflix's "Society of the Snow" is based on the true story of a 1972 disaster in the Andes involving a Uruguayan rugby team.
Wreckage of the plane crash that killed President Samora Machel. ... Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into the side of Mount Erebus, Antarctica, on 28 November 1979 ...
Pilot dies after plane crashes into field, trapping him in wreckage, SC officials say ... The crash was reported in a field off S.C. Highway 101 in the Greer area, roughly 20 miles west of ...
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Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica 2019 Aircraft: 38 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash: ... Livingston Island plane crash [5] Livingston Island, Antarctica 1985