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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 11:46:19 AM

Title: "Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand"
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 28, 2019, 11:46:19 AM

Good coverage of a story I only vaguely remember

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50555046

Title: Re: "Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand"
Post by: Roses on November 28, 2019, 11:50:03 AM

I have no memory of that at all.

Title: Re: "Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand"
Post by: jeremyp on November 28, 2019, 02:09:11 PM

Quote from: Littleroses on November 28, 2019, 11:50:03 AM

I have no memory of that at all.

Neither do I but I have read about it before. The flight crew were briefed on a different flight plan to the one that had been programmed into the navigation computer. They also descended lower than was strictly legal. Although, note: descending to that level had become routine on those flights.