PM sorry for state-owned Air New Zealand’s efforts to blame pilots for 1979 crash into Antarctica’s Mt Erebus
The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has met the relatives of those killed in the Erebus disaster – New Zealand’s worst plane crash which claimed 257 lives – and offered the first apology by any government.
It is 40 years since a plane belonging to national carrier Air New Zealand crashed into Mount Erebus, a volcano, on a scenic tour of Antarctica. The crash was the worst in the country’s aviation history and on Thursday the Ardern said Erebus remained an unparalleled tragedy in Kiwi minds.
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