Air New Zealand Flight Crashed in Antarctica
The majority of the traffic is internal with over 3000 flights a week to and from fifty domestic destinations. See Mt Erebus disaster and the related entry on Te Ara for more information. Pin On Air Disasters When an Air New Zealand flight crashed in Antarctica coming to all 257 people on board. . It demonstrated the dangers of that continents frequent whiteouts. 1985 Tory Channel air crash. The first aircraft accident in which 200 or more people died occurred on March 3 1974 when 346 died in the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981As of April 2020 there have been 33 aviation incidents in which 200 or more people died. Air New Zealand had been operating scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flights since 1977. She had only one leg left in her trip a final leap from Antarctica to New Zealand when she vanished Earhart-style in the South Pacific. 1979 Mt Erebus air crash On 28 November an Air New Zealand DC-10 airliner on a sightse