38 years ago today - the Mount Erebus disaster. 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, before returning to Auckland in the evening via Christchurch. 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, Antarct

Passenger Plane Crashes in Antarctica | Mt. Erebus Disaster. Find out why this Air New Zealand DC-10 aircraft crashed into Mount Erebus, the second highest volcano in Antarctica. | TheFlightChannel

On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand flight crashed into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 people aboard. Today we remember them. | nzherald.co.nz