Author Topic: "Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand"  (Read 657 times)

Nearly Sane

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Good coverage of a story I only vaguely remember

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

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Re: "Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand"
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2019, 11:50:03 AM »
I have no memory of that at all.
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Re: "Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand"
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2019, 02:09:11 PM »
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.

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