Distance between new Zealand and Antarctica

New Zealand Air Flight 901

It was a regular Air New Zealand Antarctica service between 1977 and 1979. It would depart Auckland Airport in the mornings and fly over the Arctic Ocean for a few hour before heading back to Auckland via Christchurch in the afternoons.

The 14th TE-901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registered ZK-NZP, took off for Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica on 28 November 1979, and killed all 237 people and 20 members of the ship's personnel. 1 ][2] The incident became known as the Mount Erebus catastrophe. Investigations revealed that the incident was due to a pilots mistake, but the open cry resulted in the appointment of a royal commission of inquiry into the plane crashed.

Conducted by Justice Peter Mahon QC, the committee came to the conclusion that the incident was due to a correcting of the trajectory co-ordinates the evening before the catastrophe, combined with a lack of informing the aircrew of the alteration, with the consequence that instead of being guided by a computer via McMurdo Sound (as the crews had been made to believe ), the plane was diverted onto the route of Mount Erebus.

This is the most fatal peace catastrophe in New Zealand and the most fatal in Air New Zealand's entirety. It was conceived and commercialized as a one-of-a-kind sight-seeing adventure with an expert Antarctica tour leader, who showed the scenery and sights with the help of the sound system, while the travellers were enjoying a low-level soundtrack.

3 ] Air craft took off and arrived in New Zealand on the same date. Trajectory from trajectory 901. Approximately half an hours after the airplane ran out of gasoline, Air New Zealand told the media that she thought the airplane was doomed. Searching along the trajectory suspected, but finding nothing.

By 12:55, the flight crews of a United States Navy plane spotted junk on the side of Mount Erebus. Around 9:00 a.m., twenty hrs after the plane crashed, a helicopter with rescue teams landed on the side of the mt. Confirming that it was the wreck of Flight 901 and that all 237 people and 20 members of the flight crews had been dead.

Salvage of flight 901 was named "Operation Overdue". At the beginning there was very little bottled rinse on site and we only had a tray between us in which we could clean our hands before dinner. For this reason we had to collect all the corpses/parts that had been sacked and place 11 large heaps of mankind around the site of the fall to keep them buried under fallen people.

We had to shovel up the top layers of snows above the site of the fall and dig them up, only to expose them later when the wheather had settled and the helicopter could return to the construction site. It was at this point that we distributed the alcohol that had escaped the plane and we celebrated (macabre, but we had to let off steam).

It was published on 12 June 1980 by Ron Chippindale, New Zealand's head of the Aircraft Collision Inspectorate. Usual altitudes forbade descents below 1,800m even in good meteorological condition, but a mix of elements gave the skipper the impression that the aircraft was over the ocean (in the heart of McMurdo Sound and on some small low islands), and former F901 drivers had been flying deep over the area on a regular basis to give better visibility to travellers, as photos in New Zealand's own cruise guide and first-hand reports on NZ Scott Base staff on the grounds show.

Mr Mahon said the only dominating and actual cause of the accident was Air New Zealand changing the schedule via-path point co-ordinates in the terrestrial computer without informing the crews. This new timetable led the plane directly over the hill and not along its flanks. They may also have witnessed a scarce weather phenomena known as a spectral white-out that generates the optical delusion of a shallow horizontal far in the distance.

A very wide crevice between the clouds seemed to allow a glimpse of the far Ross Ice Shelf and beyond. As Mahon noted, the aircrew had many thousand flying lessons with the plane's extremely accurate system of in-ertial guidance.

It was Mahon who found out that Chippindale had a bad overview of aviation in the initial review, as he (and the New Zealand CAA in general) was usually implicated in the investigation of minor crashwork. Chippindale has therefore completely failed to recognize the importance of the timetable changes and the uncommon weather in Antarctica.

If the pilot had been notified of the timetable changes, the plane would have crashed. He had not had his knowledge of the cause of the incident, namely the re-programming of the plane's timetable by the crews, who then did not notify the crews, contested before the Court of Appeal and were therefore not contested before the Secret Council.

He therefore concluded that the accident was the consequence of a misdirection of the crew with regard to their trajectory and was not due to a pilots inaccuracy. However, the Law Lords of the Privy Council, chaired by Lord Diplock, actually concurred with some of the opinions of the minorities in the Court of Appeal when they concluded that Mahon had been acting in violation of the principles of nature when he found a plot by the Air New Zealand administration.

The Privy Council therefore rejected Mahon's appointment in its ruling of 20 October 1983. 33 ] John King, an aeronautical scientist, writes in his New Zealand Tragedies, Aviation: Destroying his case (Mahon's case for cover-up) piece by piece, complete with piece of evidence 164, which they said "cannot be interpreted by any skilled pilots to be meant for the purpose of navigation", they went even further by saying that there was no clear evidence to support a conclusion that there had ever been a scheme of deceit under the leadership of the CEO.

"Exponat 164" was a photocopy of the McMurdo Sound showing a southern route westward of Ross Iceland and a northern route eastward of the Isl. It has been demonstrated that the chart has been incorporated into the aircrew' documentation of briefings. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10's fame was seriously damaged by Air 901, in connection with the American Airlines 191 Chicago plane crashed six monitors before.

CC-NZP, along with the other seven Air New Zealand DC-10, had just been put back into operation after the plane crashed on Flight 191 when Flight 901 crashed. After Turkish Airlines Flight 981 and American Airlines Flight 191, Flight 901 was the third fatal DC-10 incident.

This was the beginning of the end of Air New Zealand's DC-10 fleets, although there was already discussion of the replacement of aircraft prior to the crash; the DC-10 was superseded by Boeing 747s from mid 1981, and the last DC-10 of Air New Zealand was flown in December 1982. Air New Zealand canceled all its commercial operations in Antarctica after Flight 901, and Qantas stopped its Antarctica operations in February 1980 and returned only to a restricted extent in 1994.

It' a TV mini-series, Erebus: Aftermath, which focuses on the inquiry and the Royal Commission of Inquiry, was aired in New Zealand and Australia in 1988. On the New Zealand Queen's Birthday Honours Schedule in June 2007, Captain Gordon Vette was named ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit) in recognition of his merits in supporting Justice Mahon during the Erebus survey.

Vette's Impact Erebus comments on the plane, its collapse and the ensuing investigation. Photo of the Erebus monument at Waikumete cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland. In 1986 it was superseded by an aluminum star after the prototype was discharged by low temperature, winds and humidity. It was American Airlines Airfare 965, a plane that went off-road after the planes changed co-ordinates.

Aerateca Game 901, a plane of the same number that also crashed into a vulcano. Air New Zealand had two IATA code, TE for intercontinental services (a relict of Air New Zealand's forerunner, Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL)) and NZ for national services (acquired from the April 1978 National Airways Corporation merger) at the date of the accident.

Although these are internal services from the immigrants' point of views, Antarctica has used the TE codes for logistic purposes. Accessed August 24, 2011. International flight: 1987. Archives from the orginal on 24 January 2013. No information was known at the date of the release about the flight data and dashboard vocal recorders of Air New Zealand McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ZK-NZP, which went down on Mount Erebus on 28 November.

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