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Mount Erebus Flight path of Flight 901 Collins told McMurdo Station that he would be dropping to 2,000 feet (610 m), at which point he switched control of the aircraft to the autopilot . Outside, a layer of clouds blended with the white snow-covered volcano, forming a sector whiteout – no contrast between ground and sky was visible to the pilots.
Air New Zealand Flight 901 [2] Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica 2019 Aircraft: 38 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash: Drake Passage, Antarctica Aircraft lost en route from Chile to Teniente R. Marsh Airport, King George Island: 2010 Shipwreck: 22 South Korean trawler Insung [3] Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station
The flight engineer was Gordon Brooks, who had served as Vette's flight engineer on Air New Zealand flight 103 during the Cessna 188 rescue. [12] Map showing Air New Zealand Flight 901's flight path and its impact site on Mt. Erebus. Flight TE901 took off on 29 November 1979.
On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE-901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registration ZK-NZP, flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. [8] [9] The accident became known as the Mount Erebus disaster.
Mount Erebus (/ ˈ ɛr ɪ b ə s /) is the ... On 28 November, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed on Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. Geology and ...
Erebus: The Aftermath is a 1987 New Zealand television miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979. The miniseries, a docudrama, was produced by Television New Zealand, and was broadcast in New Zealand and Australia. It was also aired by BBC 2 television in the UK.
Mulgrew was killed in the crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 at Mount Erebus on a sightseeing flight to Antarctica, in which all 257 on board died. He was a commentator on the flight, having replaced his close friend Sir Edmund Hillary, who was on a scheduled speaking tour of the United States. In 1989 his widow, June, married Hillary.
One such flight, Air New Zealand Flight 901, crashed into Mount Erebus on the eastern shores of McMurdo Sound. The impact, occurring in sector whiteout into the lower slopes of the active volcano, took the lives of all 257 people aboard the aircraft.