The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer. / And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose / My youth is bent by the same wintry fever….by Dylan Thomas
carriers 2019-11-29 (08:34) IP address :104.143.92.144
The airline had very much been a source of pride for the country - as national carriers are, it was part of the fabric of how New Zealand saw itself on the global stage. But over the years, the overwhelming consensus became that the airline had indeed been at fault and not the pilot team.
It never ran the Antarctic flights again - though one private airline does cover the sightseeing route from Australia.
At the time, the crash and its aftermath were seen as "almost a sense of betrayal for people", Mr Light explains.
carriers 2019-11-29 (08:34) IP address :104.143.92.144
The airline had very much been a source of pride for the country - as national carriers are, it was part of the fabric of how New Zealand saw itself on the global stage. But over the years, the overwhelming consensus became that the airline had indeed been at fault and not the pilot team.
It never ran the Antarctic flights again - though one private airline does cover the sightseeing route from Australia.
At the time, the crash and its aftermath were seen as "almost a sense of betrayal for people", Mr Light explains.
population 2019-11-29 (08:29) IP address :104.143.92.144
The crash killed 227 passengers and 30 crew. Forty-four people were never identified during the search and recovery operations.
New Zealand's population was then only around three million people. As people said at the time, almost everyone was somehow connected to the Erebus disaster, whether through knowing a victim, a member of the many heroic recovery operations, or taking sides in the lengthy legal battle that ensued.
population 2019-11-29 (08:29) IP address :104.143.92.144
The crash killed 227 passengers and 30 crew. Forty-four people were never identified during the search and recovery operations.
New Zealand's population was then only around three million people. As people said at the time, almost everyone was somehow connected to the Erebus disaster, whether through knowing a victim, a member of the many heroic recovery operations, or taking sides in the lengthy legal battle that ensued.
Turkey 2019-11-29 (08:26) IP address :185.92.26.246
On Turkey, he said he respected its security interests after it suffered "many terrorist attacks on its soil".
But he added: "One cannot on one hand say that we are allies, and with respect to this demand our solidarity; and on the other hand, put its allies in the face of a military offensive done as a 'fait accompli' which endangers the action of the coalition against Islamic State, which Nato is part of."
Zealand 2019-11-29 (08:24) IP address :104.143.92.144
In 2009, Air New Zealand issued a first apology - although only for its behaviour in the aftermath, not for the actual accident itself.
But on this year's anniversary, the airline finally issued that full apology that so many people felt was overdue.
"I apologise on behalf of an airline which 40 years ago failed in its duty of care to its passengers and staff," the airline's chairwoman Therese Walsh said at the commemorations at government house in Auckland.
brochure 2019-11-29 (08:18) IP address :104.143.92.144
Even a promotional brochure for the scenic route had boasted of the scenery using photographs clearly taken from a way below the safe altitude.
The Royal Commission did not only find that the airline was to blame due to the mistakes in the flight path, but it also alleged that Air New Zealand had essentially tried to cover up its own responsibility: a conspiracy to blame the pilots leaving Air New Zealand morally in the clear - and also in terms of compensation payouts to the victims' relatives.
Famously, the head of the inquiry, judge Peter Mahon, described the airline's defence as "an orchestrated litany of lies" - a phrase which would stick in the national consciousness.
instead 2019-11-29 (07:59) IP address :104.143.92.144
But instead of ice and snow in the distance, what the cockpit was looking at was the mountain right ahead of them. Shortly before 1pm, the plane's proximity alarms went off. With no time to pull up, six seconds later the plane ploughed straight into the side of Mt Erebus.
After hours of waiting and confusion, the assumption back in New Zealand was that the plane must have run out of fuel. Wherever it was, it was no longer in the air.
reporters 2019-11-29 (07:26) IP address :185.92.26.246
Stromboli is the most remote of Italy’s seven Aeolian Islands. This summer, two major explosions shook the island, killing an Italian hiker and causing 70 people to be evacuated. Still, 300 residents chose to live directly under one of the world’s most active volcanoes and love this magnetic island.
Video by Anna Bressanin, Ilya Shnitser, Elisabetta Abrami. Music by Carlo Purpura
Newwz 2019-11-29 (07:25) IP address :185.92.26.246
It remains New Zealand's worst peacetime disaster. On 28 November 1979, a sightseeing aircraft carrying 257 people crashed head-on into the side of a volcano in Antarctica.
The tragedy of flight TE901 was a shock for New Zealand, affecting almost everyone in the country in some way, and led to years of investigations and a bitter blame game.
And the legacy of the Mt Erebus disaster is still felt 40 years on.