Plane crash in Antarctic

Title

Plane crash in Antarctic

Genre

News report

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:03:04

Description

Report on the retrieval operation following the crash of an Air New Zealand DC-10 on a sightseeing tour to volcanic Mount Erebus in Antarctica with no survivors. Conditions will make retrieval difficult. The cause of the crash is not yet known, air accident investigators are coming in from the US. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Air accidents; Deaths; Antarctic regions; Air New Zealand; Volcanoes; Mount Erebus; Rescue work; Dead bodies

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