Aircrash on Mount Erebus

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 aircraft, flight TE 901, crashed into the lower slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island in Antarctica. All 237 passengers and 20 crew died. More than 200 bodies and portions of human remains were recovered and these were received, stored and examined in the...

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Published in:Medicine, Science and the Law
Main Authors: Cairns, F. J., Herdson, P. B., Hitchcock, G. C., Koelmeyer, T. D., Smeeton, W. M. I., Synek, B. J. L.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 1981
Subjects:
Mount Erebus
New Zealand
Ross Island
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002580248102100306
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002580248102100306
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Summary:On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 aircraft, flight TE 901, crashed into the lower slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island in Antarctica. All 237 passengers and 20 crew died. More than 200 bodies and portions of human remains were recovered and these were received, stored and examined in the Department of Pathology at the University of Auckland School of Medicine. This paper describes the organization set up to deal with the task which resulted in the identification of 213 passengers and crew. In the light of our experience, some recommendations are made for future investigations of this sort.

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