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Erebus crash site map
This map shows the flight path of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 on 28 November 1979 (solid red line) before it crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus. The dashed line on the left shows where the pilot probably thought he was.
In the detail image Mt Erebus is in the foreground. The actual flight path was about 45 kilometres to the east of where it was supposed to be.
Archives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga, Christchurch Regional Office Reference: CAHU CH282/Box12/1 Map of Ross Island area showing flight path of aircraft (as reconstructed by R.B. Thomson, Jan. 1980) and where captain may have believed he was, 1980
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