You can listen to White Silence on RNZ, Stuff, or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or any other app using the RSS feed. "We've all been psychologically through quite a lot of trauma and I think the evidence of that should be shown publicly so that people can understand what it means to have suffered what we've suffered."Ĭarter also believed the footage would help focus attention on families and those who were lost. Seeing images from the flight itself was the closest people could get to the reality of what happened to the victims that day, and their loved ones afterwards, Carter said. After an unsuccessful attempt at trying to re-contact the control tower at 0049:24 - just 30 seconds before the crash - a flight deck member responds: 'I dont like this.' Five seconds later the. The extra trauma of that made it doubly hard for the family to grieve. They proved popular and Air New Zealand subsequently applied to the Civil Aviation Division of the Ministry of Transport for permission for further flights in subsequent summers. Kathryn Carter's father was Captain Jim Collins, the pilot of flight TE901 that day. Air New Zealand and Qantas began offering sightseeing flights to Antarctic a in February 1977. I think we've learned so much with regards to the and Pike River that the pastoral priority of the victims and their families was sort of lost sight of and that was a terrible thing." "I don't think New Zealand as a nation at that time sort of knew quite how to react. Waugh, who is closely involved in that, said he sensed that attention was finally shifting back to the 257 victims and their families. Only now are there plans to build a national memorial. That left many families of the victims feeling marginalised and voiceless. Over the last 40 years, Erebus has been dogged by controversy. Stuff has chosen to show the footage and still photos here to help re-focus the story of the Erebus disaster onto the victims. For others it could be quite heart-wrenching.That's the range of emotions you get with these hundreds of Erebus families." 28 November 1979: An Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica, Flight TE 901, departed Auckland Airport (AKL) on the North Island of New Zealand. All 257 people on board an Air New Zealand DC-10. "It's probably in the last five to 10 minutes before impact, so if you don't know what you're about to see it's quite jarring.For some people I could see it as revealing the excitement and the joy of a scenic flight and they're all thrilled about it. The tail section of an Air New Zealand DC10 plane is seen after it crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica in 1979. "The altitude is not high," aviation historian Richard Waugh said. One part shot out of a window gave a clue that it was filmed shortly before the crash. Seeing Frank Christmas in the footage helped Myles and her family, but it will not be for everyone. The footage was filmed by a passenger aboard aboard Air New Zealand flight TE901 Photo: 60 Minutes / Nine
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