Erebus: The Loss Of Flight 901

This is a Flight Simulator 2004 recreation of the crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901.

On November 28th, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 on a sightseeing flight to Antartica crashed into Mt Erebus on Ross Island in white-out conditions killing all 257 people on board. This remains as New Zealand's worst air disaster.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• FS2004
• FS9
• Air
• New
• Zealand
• ANZ
• 901
• TE901
• Antartica
• Mt
• Erebus
• white-out
• navigation
• CFIT

[turricaned]

Just to make it clear - this simulation is not accurate, and I don't think any version of FS without specialist weather software would be able to make it accurate - they were not in cloud and there was no cloud below them - they were in *sector whiteout*. There was an overcast between 2,500ft and 10,000ft which obscured the top of Erebus from their flight level, but it was a fog bank at the base of the mountain and reflected sunlight that obscured Erebus from the flight deck.

[Karlamon9]

@turricaned You've got a clear point mate. This video sucks by the way.

[Soldierboy641]

mount everest is in tibet not anattica

[Karlamon9]

It's "Erebus", not Everest.

[Mega80s]

My thoughts and sympathy goes out to all the familIes, friends and also Air New Zealand staffs, that lost 237 Passengers and 20 Crews members that were on board the Air New Zealand DC-10-30, Flight 901, Rego: ZK-NZP,and perished at the Mt Erebus site over 30 years ago. Rest In Peace.

[animesawesome]

@Soldierboy641 its not mount everest its mount erebus the one in antarctica with a lava lake im reasearching it for my project there a also many other volcanoes in antarctica

[brianrallen]

@bunglebear2084 OK. then. Not arrogant.

Not only arrogant, that is.

Add murderously, criminally negligent.

In an aviation career thus far spanning around a half century and more than 30.000 hours I've yet to witness a more bloody ridiculous - pathetic, even -- and pointless -- destruction of a perfectly good aeroplane -- and 253 innocent men and wonen and children.

[bunglebear2084]

@brianrallen Arrogant? Wow. Big call. His job was to fly a plane full of people down to see Antarctica. They had to fly that low to see anything and were given permission to do so. He was under control of McMurdo Base air traffic control in McMurdo airspace. Do some research.

[bunglebear2084]

@MoFoFoRillDo You better do your homework before you start criticizing dead pilots. Just so you know, a Royal Commission of Enquiry cleared the pilots of any fault. Unbeknownst to them someone changed their way point.

[MoFoFoRillDo]

all cause they wanted to get low enough for a look at the islands, its a high altitude plane ride not a sight seeing ride threw the country. Damn straight it was pilot error and they all payed the price for it !!

[DJQART]

not a simulation at all - at the time of impact they were below cloud base, less than 2000 ft above mean sea level, and in sector whiteout conditions, so they didn't see any horizon and proceeded straight to the white rising terrain of Erebus

[tasman763]

@brianrallen The end waypoint NDB location was changed . An error was made logging its new position. The check made to catch this error did not catch this error ( amounting to over 20 NM ) . This error was made by NAV section ANZ. The briefing given by ANZ was faulty ( according to US Navy pilots ) . Collings himself broke no rules at all. ( his descent was cleared by McMurdo ) Cannot evade THESE simple facts .....and I knew Collings, he was a damn fine pilot.

[brianrallen]

@MrCriticOfAll

"..didnt some dick change the flight path & stick the aeroplane straight into the mountain?

Yes some dick, did.

The pilot in command who, with effectively zero Off-Airways experience, over a thousand nautical from his last known position & only a little more than twenty miles from his next available suitable navigation aid, arrogantly elected to descend a perfectly serviceable aeroplane from the Minimum Enroute Altitude & to do just that! Cannot evade those simple facts!

[MrCriticOfAll]

@Soldierboy641 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you WANKER

[MrCriticOfAll]

Correct me if i'm wrong but didnt some dick at Air NZ change the flight path at the last minute that put the plane on a direct heading and level straight into the mountain?