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NZ901 The Mount Erebus Disaster

October 13, 2020

An Air New Zealand flight is doing a sightseeing 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.

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In Pilot Failures, Company Failures Tags New Zealand, Mt. Erebus, CFIT, Controlled Flight into Terrain, Antarctica, Air New Zealand Flight 901
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