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Recovery work among the debris of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 on Mt Erebus continued even in terrible weather conditions. The original caption of this photograph reads: 'Hugh Logan below main fuselage. Strong ground blizzard blowing through wreckage. Antarctic Division photo, Colin Monteath'.
Archives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga, Christchurch Regional Office
Reference: CAHU CH282/Box13/9 Large black and white prints of crash site operations December 1979 [with captions], 1979
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