3/26/2023 0 Comments Mt erebus crash![]() Latest: It has been agreed to erect the controversial memorial at Dove -Myer Robinson Park. Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage will submit the proposal and hopes it will be established at Dove-Myer Robinson Park/Taurarua Pā in early 2020. Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster which saw Air New Zealand flight TE901 crash into Mt Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board. NZ Herald of 16 November, 2018 reported this good news:Ī proposal to build the National Erebus Memorial at the celebrated Parnell Rose Gardens will be submitted to the Waitemata Local Board next week. I pray that the soul of those who lost their lives rest in eternal peace.Īnd their loved ones may get strength to proceed with life in memory of those loved ones they lost over three and half decades ago.Īnd we may be thankful that at last there may be something for the lost passengers next year to mark 40th Anniversary. While many mainstream Kiwi journalists may have forgotten this 40th anniversary of the disaster, this recent migrated Fiji-India Kiwi blogger remembers those who perished. The tail-piece in the wreckage with Air New Zealand logo The accident is New Zealand's deadliest peacetime disaster. In Justice Mahon's report, he accused Air New Zealand of presenting "an orchestrated litany of lies" and this charge in the end led to changes in senior management at the airline. The commission, presided over by Justice Peter Mahon QC, concluded that the accident was caused by a correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster, coupled with a failure to inform the flight crew of the change, with the result that the aircraft, instead of being directed by computer down McMurdo Sound (as the crew assumed), was re-routed into the path of Mount Erebus. ![]() The initial investigation concluded the accident was caused by pilot error but public outcry led to the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the crash. ![]() While I will not delve in who was responsible for this disaster, people may Google and find volumes of theories on this. Tickets for the November 1979 flights cost NZ$359 per person (equal to about NZ$1,386 in the first quarter of 2013). ![]() The aircraft would make a 45-minute stop at Christchurch for refuelling and crew change, before flying the remaining 464 miles (747 km) to Auckland, arriving at 9:00 pm. The accident became known as the Mount Erebus disaster.įlight 901 would leave Auckland International Airport at 8:00 am for Antarctica, and arrive back at Christchurch International Airport at 7:00 pm after flying a total of 5,360 miles (8,630 km). 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. The flight would leave Auckland Airport in the morning and spend a few hours flying over the Antarctic continent, before returning to Auckland in the evening via Christchurch. Here is for those who are new to this tragedy from Wikipedia.Īir New Zealand Flight 901 (TE-901) was a scheduled Air New Zealand Antarctic sightseeing flight that operated between 19. Please try to take time out to see the nondescript plaque in memory of crew of those who perished in flight TE 901. I am sure many journalists and those reading this may have never have seen this. But there is no monument to remember the 237 passengers who died in the disaster. The plaque in memory of DC 10 Crew who perished in the disaster. I read, and was shocked to see it was a plaque in memory of crew of DC 10. ![]() Something like a plaque caught my eyes, and I went down to have a look on a hidden slope of Tom Pearce Drive. I went along that street past Z Service Station, and roundabout towards aircraft viewing site, towards Puhinui Rd, facing Manukau. Hence one day some four years ago, after dropping my school charter at Butterfly Creek on Tom Pearce Drive near Auckland Airport, as usual, I proceeded on my habitual walk. And as mooted, there is no monument to honour those 237 passengers who perished with the 20 crew.Īir New Zealand DC 10 - the type of aircraft that went down.Īs a part-time school bus driver, you have the fringe-benefit and privilege to see many parts of Auckland that a normal mortal Aucklander does not get to see. In fact I found the shrine of the DC crew of the disaster, accidently. 28 November, 2020 is 41st anniversary of that biggest peacetime disaster to hit New Zealand on 28 November, 1979 at 1.49pm. ![]()
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