Video embedded from YouTube on 14 November 2011 WhiteoutĪ Primary causation of the Erebus disaster was the crews inability to see rising terrain ahead, namely Mt Erebus and not having sufficient warning both visually and through technology to avoid controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). After further investigation they found out that the plane crashed into Mount Erebus as a result of the airline changing the aircraft's flight path data without telling the air crew. Around 12.49 pm the GPWS gave the pilots a warning but there was no time for them to save themselves from disaster.ġ1 hours later the crew of a United States Navy plane found the wreckage on the side of Mount Erebus and there were no signs of survivors. The captain of the flight faced whiteout because the white of the ice blended with the white of the mountain therefore he could not see the slope on the land. The change in the two coordinates put the flight path across Lewis Sound and towards the 3794 meter Mount Erebus. At this point when the captain looked at the navigational system, but the flight 901 was not where the crew or the McMurdo station thought it was. Fifteen minutes later the captain told the McMurdo station that he was dropping further to 610 meters.
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On 28th November the pilots entered the series of latitude and longitude co-ordinates into the aircraft computer but the pilots did not know that the coordinates had been changed earlier that morning and when they entered into the computer it changed the flight path 45 kilometres to the east.Īround 12.30 pm the McMurdo station gave permission to Flight 901 to descend to 3050 meters and continue visually. The plan gave the coordinates for the sightseeing trip to Antarctica and across McMurdo Sound. Three weeks before departure the pilots attended a briefing session were they were given the printouts of previous flights to Antarctica. However, the flight was deemed a straightforward flight.
The crew, captain Jim Collins and first oficer Greg Cassin, had not flown to Antarctica before. On November 28th 1979 the plane crashed into Mount Erebus killing all crew members and passengers on board. Air New Zealand Flight 901 was an international one-day sightseeing flight over Antarctica from Auckland International Airport in New Zealand.
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