80 selected for Erebus flight
Eighty people who lost family members in the 1979 Erebus tragedy will travel to Antarctica on a remembrance flight this summer after their names were drawn in a ballot.
Eighty people who lost family members in the 1979 Erebus tragedy will travel to Antarctica on a remembrance flight this summer after their names were drawn in a ballot.
A woman whose father died in the Air NZ Mt Erebus disaster has questioned the airline's use 'whoop whoop' - the last signal crew heard before the DC-10 went down - in its advertising.
Families who lost loved ones in NZ's worst air crash nearly 31 years ago have been asked to register for a ballot for 80 seats on a RNZAF commemorative flight to Antarctica.
The Govt will fly up to 80 relatives of the victims of the Mt Erebus crash to Antarctica, Murray McCully has announced
Memorial services were held in Auckland, Christchurch, France and at Scott Base in Antarctica yesterday.
A memorial trip to the crash site of the 1979 Mt Erebus air disaster has been postponed tonight after strong winds prevented helicopters from landing.
Family members attending the DC-10 Remembrance arrive in Antarctica.
Businessman Mike Pero says he feels like he is being persecuted for trying to help the Erebus crash victims' families travel to Antarctica for January's 30 year anniversary.
Concerns over Mike Pero's planned Erebus charter flight have forced the businessman to reconsider going ahead with the trip.
The daughter of one of the Erebus disaster victims has criticised Mike Pero's charter flight to the crash site as in "poor taste".
The families of those who died when Air NZ Flight 901 plunged into Mt Erebus received an average pay-out of only $100,000 - and were sworn to secrecy.
Margaret Modricker, who lost her mother in the 1979 disaster, says today's apology should have been done decades ago.
Air New Zealand has apologised to the families of those killed in the 1979 Mt Erebus crash for the first time.
Air New Zealand has acknowledged the "gaps and failings" after the Erebus tragedy 30 years ago.
The Erebus tragedy would never have happened if a Civil Aviation inspector, scheduled to be on board that day, had made the flight, an expert says.
The man who apologised over the Cave Creek disaster says Air NZ should have apologised for the Erebus air crash years ago.