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	Mount Erebus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost active volcano on Earth.
		Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (whose ships were named Erebus and Terror; these ships were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous search for the Northwest Passage), and first climbed (to the rim) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's party in 1908.
		The composition of the current eruptive activity on Mt. Erebus is anorthoclase-porphyric tephritic phonolite and phonolite, which constitute the bulk of exposed lava flow on the volcano.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Erebus (773 words)

	Air New Zealand Flight 901 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that the section Air disaster from the article Mount Erebus be merged into this article or section.
		Mahon's report, released on April 27, 1981, cleared the crew of blame for the disaster.
		The small size of New Zealand meant that nearly the entire population was affected by the disaster, personally or by association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster (1110 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mount Erebus disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Mount Erebus disaster was a major aircraft accident involving Air New Zealand Flight 901 in 1979.
		Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost active volcano.
		Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mount-Erebus-disaster (1803 words)

	Erebus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Erebus was often used as a synonym for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.
		Also, Erebus was the name of the gloomy space through which souls passed on their way to Hades.
		The Mount Erebus disaster was an aircraft accident that occurred in 1979.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Erebus (314 words)

	Mount Erebus Article, MountErebus Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (whose ships were named Erebus and Terror; these ships were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous search for the Northwest Passage), and first climbed (to the rim) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's party in 1908.
		The official accident report attributed the disaster to the decision of the captain in descending to a height below theapproved level, in cloud, and continuing at that height when the crew was not sure of the plane's position.
		The Commission ofInquiry concluded that the pilot had continued flying towards the mountain under visual flight rules because he was in clear airbut was unaware that the mountain was directly in front of him because polar lighting caused a whiteout situation that made the mountain invisible.
	www.anoca.org /flight/flying/mount_erebus.html (471 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mount Erebus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A volcano is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where magma (rock of the Earths interior made molten or liquid by extremely high temperatures along with a reduction in pressure and/or the introduction of water or other volatiles) erupts through the surface of the planet.
		HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke Dockyard, Wales in 1826.
		The Commission of Inquiry concluded that the pilot had continued flying towards the mountain under visual flight rules because he was in clear air but was unaware that the mountain was directly in front of him because polar lighting caused a whiteout situation that made the mountain invisible.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mount-Erebus (1234 words)

	New Zealand Disasters: Aircraft Accident: DC. 10 ZK-NZP Flight 901 - Christchurch City Libraries
		Early in the investigation into the causes of the disaster, it became clear that there was no mechanical reason for the crash.
		The Mount Erebus disaster was New Zealand's biggest single tragedy, with one more death than in the 1931 Napier Earthquake.
		Responding to Tragedy: the Police at Tangiwai, Wahine and Mt Erebus disasters, from NZ History.Net of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2002
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Childrens/NZDisasters/Erebus.asp (1075 words)

	Disaster Recovery Survival Disaster Recovery Survival
		The need for disaster recovery and business continuity planning has been highlighted recently by the continuing rapid increase in the dependency of business on technology and the series of headline-grabbing, thought-provoking disasters witnessed in recent years, caused by and including power failures, fuel shortages, storms and floods.
		As these disasters occupy prominent coverage by the news media, the senior management of virtually every company and governmental entity needs to consider and plan for the prospect of a disaster interrupting their operations.
		Yet the cause of the disaster condition is more often a localized occurrence which can have a deceptively great impact on a company or organization.
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	Read about McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The circumstances surrounding this crash were similar to those surrounding the previous crash; however, a modified seating configuration on the Turkish aircraft exacerbated the effects of decompression and caused the aircraft control cables to be severed, rendering the aircraft uncontrollable.
		Mount Erebus in Antarctica during a sight-seeing trip.
		The Mount Erebus disaster killed all 257 on board.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/DC-10 (1217 words)

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		This was at the time the fourth worst disaster in aviation history, and it follows that this direction on the part of the chief executive for the destruction of 'irrelevant documents' was one of the most remarkable executive decisions ever to have been made in the corporate affairs of a large New Zealand company.
		Immediately it was known that the aircraft had crashed on Mount Erebus the standard procedures for aircraft accident investigation were invoked by the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents, Mr R. Chippindale.
		The magnitude of the disaster, bringing tragedy to many homes in New Zealand and overseas, and the fact that the national airline was involved meant that the national attention was focused on the inquiry.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16130/16130.txt (18684 words)

	Tourist Flight Returns to Antarctica's Mount Erebus
		Mount Erebus had been sighted in the far distance on previous trips, but Flight 2915 was the first to return and close-circle it, performing a long figure eight to give passengers on both sides a clear view of the most southerly active volcano on the planet.
		She painted a word picture of life in the frozen wilderness and explained how water was always one of the major issues, as everything remains frozen, requiring significant use of resources such as oil and diesel to melt sufficient for daily uses around the base.
		It was clear from the voice cockpit recording in the minute before the disaster that the pilots were concerned about their position and inability to get a visual fix.
	www.avweb.com /news/features/187317-1.html (2065 words)

	Erebus and Terror, Ships of the Antarctic explorers, James Clark Ross
		Erebus and terror were designed as "bomb ships" for the naval bombardment of shore targets.
		Ross named it Mount Erebus after his ship and another smaller and extinct volcano rising to 10,900 feet, further to the east Mount Terror.
		On reaching nearly to Mount Erebus Ross encountered a feature he called the "Great Ice Barrier" at 78°4'S, a wall of ice rising 160 feet out of the sea and "...extended as far to the east and west as the eye could discern" that prevented any further sailing south.
	www.coolantarctica.com /Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/erebus_terror_antarctica.htm (2004 words)

	Mount Erebus disaster haunts, 25 years on - World - www.theage.com.au
		The November 28, 1979, crash was New Zealand's worst aviation disaster and shattered an Antarctic tourism industry still in its infancy.
		That mix-up, combined with white-out conditions, meant that the first the crew knew of the collision course they were on was when the plane's ground proximity warning system sounded in the cockpit, warning them to climb.
		New Zealand only heard of its worst-ever disaster hours after the crash when the airline had to admit the plane was "lost" as it would be out of fuel.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Mount-Erebus-disaster-haunts-25-years-on/2004/11/26/1101219743403.html?oneclick=true (574 words)

	Police at the Mount Erebus disaster, 1979 - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These photographs of the Erebus disaster were taken during the recovery operation by the New Zealand Police.
		The Erebus disaster occurred only a few weeks later, in fact the day after a refresher course had been held.
		The outcome of the whole event was a recording system for disaster victim identification that was a world leader in its time and was copied by a number of other countries.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/police/erebus.html (1315 words)

	Accidents and incidents in aviation
		The Andes flight disaster of 1972, in which the passengers who survived the crash had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive.
		The Tenerife disaster: on March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 airliners, from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and PanAm collided on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, killing 583 people.
		Lockerbie disaster â” On December 21, 1988 Boeing 747 was destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, killing all 278 on board and another 11 on the ground
	www.cooldictionary.com /words/Accidents-and-incidents-in-aviation.wikipedia (2207 words)

	List of disasters - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A disaster is a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment.
		Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive.
		Mount Erebus disaster in Antarctica (November 28 1979) 257 killed
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/List_of_disasters (2854 words)

	Air New Zealand Flight 901 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On November 28, 1979, at 12.49pm local time, the DC-10 registered ZK-NZP collided with Mount Erebus, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew members.
		Justice Mahon said the single, dominant and effective cause was the changing of the aircraft's navigation computer co-ordinates to route the aircraft directly at Mount Erebus, without the crew being advised.
		The new flight plan took the aircraft directly at the mountain, rather than along its flank, and due to whiteout conditions, the crew was unable to identify the mountain.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/air_new_zealand_flight_901 (627 words)

	Station Information - List of disasters
		An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history, in terms of loss of life in a single vessel (see also note at the end of the article RMS Titanic).
		This is a list of disasters involving objects in flight or near-flight.
		Mount Erebus disaster in Antarctica (November 28 1979)
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_disasters.html (323 words)

	Antarctic Resource Page
		Strict visitor guidelines are in place to minimise potential damage, but there still remains a real threat of a significant environmental disaster perhaps resulting from a cruise vessel going aground.
		The Erebus tragedy involved an Air New Zealand DC-10 on a sight-seeing flight over the Ross Sea region which crashed into the slopes of Mt. Erebus on 28 November 1979.
		Mount Erebus with a south polar skua in the foreground
	antarctica.org.nz /06-human_impact (1718 words)

	List of disasters - Simple English Wikipedia
		Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed in an undetermined Biblical disaster.
		The Blitz, (German massive bombing), caused the deaths of an estimated 42,000 civilians in major British cities.
		Vietnam agent orange herbicide sprayed on few millions vietnam civilians and US troops, by USA during the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1970.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_disasters (559 words)

	McDonnell Douglas DC-10 - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engined long-range airliner, with two engines mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer.
		The model was a successor to the company's DC-8 for long-range operations, and competed in the same markets as the Airbus A300, Boeing 747 "jumbo jet", and the physically similar Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.
		Perhaps the most infamous instance of a DC-10 crash was the Flight 232 disaster at Sioux City, USA, in 1989.
	en.freepedia.org /DC-10.html (1326 words)

	Mount Erebus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (whose ships were named Erebus and Terror; these ships were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous search for the Northwest Passage), and first climbed (to the rim) by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his party in 1908.
		On November 28 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901, which used a DC-10 and had 257 people on board on a sightseeing trip over Antarctica, crashed into the northern slope of Mount Erebus.
		The crash totally destroyed the aircraft; a recovery team spent over a week camped at the crash site performing body recovery and accident investigation work.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/mount_erebus (444 words)

	Erebus, Mount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Disaster on Mount Erebus; 257 missing (The Press (Canterbury, New Zealand))
		Erebus In memoriam Reflections on Erebus (The Press (Canterbury, New Zealand))
		Erebus crash coroner dies in Auckland (The Press (Canterbury, New Zealand))
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0817560 (198 words)

	Articles - Air New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Mount Erebus disaster killed all 237 passengers and 20 crew members on board.
		Mount Cook Airline is a regional airline based in Christchurch, New Zealand which also forms part of Air New Zealand's link network serving secondary cities in New Zealand with a fleet of 66 seater ATR 72-500 turbo-prop aircraft.
		Air Nelson is a regional airline based in Nelson, New Zealand which forms part of Air New Zealand's link network serving secondary cities in New Zealand with a fleet of Saab 340A and recently acquired Bombardier Q300 aircraft.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Air_New_Zealand (4590 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the ...
		As has been the practice in New Zealand when a Commission of Inquiry consists only of or is chaired by a High Court Judge, the Erebus Commission was a Royal Commission in that the warrant was expressed to be issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of 1917 constituting the office of Governor-General.
		Persons entitled to be heard—(1) Any person shall, if he is party to the inquiry or satisfies the Commission that he has an interest in the inquiry apart from any interest in common with the public, be entitled to appear and be heard at the inquiry.
		It would seem that if those at airline headquarters were unaware of the deceptive dangers of the whiteout phenomenon they could not have deliberately ignored it as a factor that should be taken into account in favour of the aircrew.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/6/1/3/16130/16130-h/16130-h.htm (19134 words)

	ELEVENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Malyon, his wife and daughter died in the Mount Erebus plane disaster.
		Marjorie, her husband and daughter died in the Mount Erebus plane disaster.
		Jane and her parents died in the Mount Erebus plane disaster.
	www.annapizzey.ic24.net /blyth%20data/d425.htm (77 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - Mount Erebus crash
		Regards Erebus crash which we sliced and diced.
		In the Erebus case they may have been flying in clear air, but with no horizon and whiteness above and below them the classic condition arose fast.
		I certainly agree that from what I know of this most unnecessary disaster the crew should be exonerated.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/showthread.php?s=ad95d29d30ffa2a57e1424aed411c4cb&t=47805&page=2&pp=10 (1002 words)

	Mount Erebus, Antarctica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mount Erebus (elevation: 12,444 feet, 3,794 m) is on Ross Island in the Ross Sea.
		Erebus is an active volcano with a convecting lava lake within a summit crater.
		Most eruptions are small and Strombolian in character, tossing bombs onto the crater rim.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/current_volcs/erebus/erebus.html (165 words)

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