{"id":11616,"date":"2019-11-28T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/28\/mount-erebus-plane-crash-ardern-apologises-40-years-after-air-new-zealand-crash-that-killed-257"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T03:38:11","slug":"the-time-has-come-ardern-apologises-for-new-zealands-worst-air-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11616","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The time has come&#8217;: Ardern apologises for New Zealand&#8217;s worst air disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM sorry for state-owned Air New Zealand\u2019s efforts to blame pilots for 1979 crash into Antarctica\u2019s Mt Erebus <\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has met the relatives of those killed in the Erebus disaster \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s worst plane crash which claimed 257 lives \u2013 and offered the first apology by any government.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s aviation history and on Thursday the Ardern said Erebus remained an unparalleled tragedy in Kiwi minds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/28\/mount-erebus-plane-crash-ardern-apologises-40-years-after-air-new-zealand-crash-that-killed-257\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM sorry for state-owned Air New Zealand\u2019s efforts to blame pilots for 1979 crash into Antarctica\u2019s Mt Erebus The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has met the relatives of those killed in the Erebus disaster \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s worst plane crash which claim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[971,41,268,56,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-plane-crashes"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}