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Forty years on, New Zealand apologises for Antarctic plane disaster | World News, The Indian Express

Forty years on, New Zealand apologises for Antarctic plane disaster | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Wellington |Updated: November 28, 2019 6:33:16 pm

Forty years on, New Zealand apologises for Antarctic plane disaster

On 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand flight 901 was on a sightseeing tour from Auckland when it crashed into the side of Mount Erebus, a 3,794 metre (12,448 ft) volcano near the US Antarctic research base of McMurdo Station.

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New Zealand apologises for Antarctic plane disaster


New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologised on Thursday for the then-government’s handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country’s worst peacetime disaster.

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