Mt Erebus

Mt Erebus 

By Levi, Rowan & lochlan

Facts before the flight

On the Mt Erebus flight there was 257 people on board including the pilot Jim Collins and co pilot Greg Cassin. There was 20 crew on board the plane the plane crashed at 12.49 into the middle part of mt Erebus the flight number was 901 and the planes identification was ZK-NZP and it was a DC.10. It took off from Māngere airport for an 11 hour for a return sightseeing flight to Antarctica. 

During the flight

On the morning of 28 november 1979 air New Zealand TE 901 was on a 11 hour  sightseeing flight to antarctica from manger new zealand at 8:00 am they made last  minute changes to the planes corse and they were write above the mountain and they did not know about it because it was extremely foggy so they could not see and they made a big decent and then crashed close to the bottom of the mountain they were found 1 day after the crash.

and that is all for now we are working to get more i will post some more later