Air New Zealand Flight 901 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-04

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00:01:40 1 Flight and aircraft
00:04:06 2 Accident
00:04:15 2.1 Circumstances surrounding the accident
00:10:53 2.2 Changes to the coordinates and departure
00:12:59 2.3 Crash into Mount Erebus
00:15:43 2.4 Nationalities of passengers and crew
00:16:05 3 Rescue and recovery
00:16:14 3.1 Initial search and discovery
00:18:35 3.2 Operation Overdue
00:23:54 4 Accident inquiries
00:24:30 4.1 Official accident report
00:25:36 4.2 Mahon Inquiry
00:28:27 5 Court proceedings
00:28:37 5.1 Judicial review
00:29:26 5.2 Privy Council appeal
00:32:28 6 Legacy of the disaster
00:36:54 7 Memorials
00:38:33 8 See also
00:39:24 9 Footnotes



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SUMMARY
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Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE-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, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. The accident became known as the Mount Erebus disaster.
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. 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 had been led to believe), was instead re-routed to a path toward Mount Erebus. Justice Mahon's report accused Air New Zealand of presenting "an orchestrated litany of lies" and this led to changes in senior management at the airline.
The accident is New Zealand's deadliest peacetime disaster, as well as the deadliest accident in the history of Air New Zealand.