Author(s): Gordon Vette and John Macdonald

Transport/Aviation

The crash of Flight 901 was the loneliest of the world's worst air disasters. On 28 November 1979, the Air New Zealand DC10 with 257 people aboard took off from Auckland International Airport and flew 2000 miles southwards to the Antarctic, to plunge into the slopes of Mt Erebus, a 12,000 foot volcano

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