Air Disaster in Antarctica
On the 28th of November 1979, the fourth largest air disaster in the world occurred on the icy slopes of Mount Erebus, deep in Antarctica and 50 km from Scott Base. The 237 passengers and 20 crew were all killed instantly on impact, and their bodies and the wreckage were spread over an area 500 m lo...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s1049023x00045143 2023-05-15T14:11:57+02:00 Air Disaster in Antarctica Fahey, Morgan 1985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00045143 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1049023X00045143 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) Prehospital and Disaster Medicine volume 1, issue S1, page 359-361 ISSN 1049-023X 1945-1938 Emergency Nursing Emergency Medicine journal-article 1985 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00045143 2022-04-07T08:04:25Z On the 28th of November 1979, the fourth largest air disaster in the world occurred on the icy slopes of Mount Erebus, deep in Antarctica and 50 km from Scott Base. The 237 passengers and 20 crew were all killed instantly on impact, and their bodies and the wreckage were spread over an area 500 m long and 100 m wide. It had started out as a scenic flight, the 14th to Antarctica, and it had ended in tragedy. It was suffered, too, by an airline company which had maintained the highest standards of aviation safety. In an account of Scott's last Antartic expedition in 1910, Cherry Garrard wrote of the “worst journey in the world,” and he said, “I have seen Fuji, the most dainty and graceful of mountains—and also Kanchenjunga; only Mechelangelo among men could have conceived such grandeur. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica antartic* Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Scott Base ENVELOPE(166.766,166.766,-77.849,-77.849) Mount Erebus ENVELOPE(167.167,167.167,-77.533,-77.533) Cherry-Garrard ENVELOPE(168.683,168.683,-71.300,-71.300) Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 1 S1 359 361 |
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On the 28th of November 1979, the fourth largest air disaster in the world occurred on the icy slopes of Mount Erebus, deep in Antarctica and 50 km from Scott Base. The 237 passengers and 20 crew were all killed instantly on impact, and their bodies and the wreckage were spread over an area 500 m long and 100 m wide. It had started out as a scenic flight, the 14th to Antarctica, and it had ended in tragedy. It was suffered, too, by an airline company which had maintained the highest standards of aviation safety. In an account of Scott's last Antartic expedition in 1910, Cherry Garrard wrote of the “worst journey in the world,” and he said, “I have seen Fuji, the most dainty and graceful of mountains—and also Kanchenjunga; only Mechelangelo among men could have conceived such grandeur. |
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Air Disaster in Antarctica |
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Air Disaster in Antarctica |
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Air Disaster in Antarctica |
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Air Disaster in Antarctica |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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1985 |
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