Air New Zealand Flight 901

The sightseeing flight to Antarctica left Auckland Airport at 8:17 a.m. local time on 28 November. Earlier flights on the route had taken airliners from the Ross Sea into McMurdo Sound, well west of Ross Island and its 3,794-metre active volcano, Mount Erebus. The aircraft struck the north slope of Mount Erebus at approximately 77°25'30" South, 167°27'30" East, about 50 kilometres north of McMurdo Station.

Date
1979-11-28
Deaths (Wikipedia list)
257
What the pin marks
The crash site on the slope of Mount Erebus, Ross Island, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: aviation, antarctica, mount erebus, controlled flight into terrain

Coordinates: -77.425, 167.45833

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