Air New Zealand Flight 901

When

28 Nov 1979

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

77.42° S, 167.46° E

Description

November 1979 aviation accident in Antarctica

Deaths

257

Injured

0

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

1979 aircraft accident in Antarctica

The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. Air New Zealand had been operating scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flights since 1977.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mount Erebus, Antarktis”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “катастрофа DC-10 в Антарктиде”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “el vuelo 901 de Air New Zealand se estrella en el Monte Erebus ubicado en la Isla de Ross en la Antártida”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page