NZ901 The Mount Erebus Disaster

An Air New Zealand flight is doing a sight seeing tour over Antarctica on a Douglas DC-10 when it hits terrain. Find out how weather and pilot error caused this flight to be too low over the snow. 2020 © Anchor FM Inc. All rights reserved.

Thanks to our Patron Kevin Shaw and Will Lanting from Twitter for recommending this episode! Thanks to Brendan for guesting for this episode!

Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19791128-0

https://www.fss.aero/accident-reports/dvdfiles/NZ/1979-11-28-NZ.pdf

https://www.erebus.co.nz/Portals/4/Documents/Reports/Mahon/Mahon%20Report_web.pdf

https://www.google.com/maps/@-77.4159033,167.4654638,7z

https://www.google.com/maps/@-77.4159033,167.4654638,161824m/data=!3m1!1e3

Research Sources:

https://www.fss.aero/accident-reports/dvdfiles/NZ/1979-11-28-NZ.pdf

https://www.erebus.co.nz/Portals/4/Documents/Reports/Mahon/Mahon%20Report_web.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19791128-0

External Links:

https://youtu.be/2YWqTDYdka0 (Documentary shown below)

https://www.erebus.co.nz/

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/erebus-disaster

https://youtu.be/Uthi8QAKboo

A documentary about The Mount Erebus Disaster, potentially from the New Zealand Library.