The Royal Commission on the Mount Erebus Air Disaster

On 28 November 1979 an Air New Zealand DC 10 aircraft on sight-seeing flight TE901 crashed into Mount Erebus, Ross Island in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board. The disaster and its subsequent investigation are of considerable concern not only for the New Zealand legal...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Auburn, F. M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1983
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Antarctic
Ross Island
New Zealand
Mount Erebus
Ross Dependency
Antarc*
Antarctica
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400019240
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400019240
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Summary:On 28 November 1979 an Air New Zealand DC 10 aircraft on sight-seeing flight TE901 crashed into Mount Erebus, Ross Island in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board. The disaster and its subsequent investigation are of considerable concern not only for the New Zealand legal system, but also for the nascent discipline of Antarctic law (Auburn 1982).

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