The Mount Eberus Plane Crash; November 28th, 1979

  The Eberus Plane Crash; November 28th, 1979

I think this disaster will be a plane crash on the 28th of November 1979, and there are no survives, and it crashes into snow.

I think i will find out where it happened and how people were on the plane, why no one survived, why were they in Antarctica.

1. IT was heading on a sight seeings trip around Antarctica, seeing McMurdo sound, Scott base,

2. Captain Jim Collins and co-pilot first officer Greg Cassin

3. So passengers could get a better view of the outside, not knowing he was flying into a mountain.

4. The flight path had been changed but the pilot and co-pilot hadn't been told, and they couldn't see where they were going because of the white out, meaning they couldn't tell the difference between the land and the sky.

5. The crash happened at 12:49 PM on Wednesday November 28th 1979, but it took till 1:25AM to find the remainder of the crash.

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Video #1

-is the worst new Zealand air disaster 
-the plane picked up people from both Auckland and Christchurch
-There were two flight engineers
-there were five flight crew and 15 fight attendants
-the navigation doesn't work as well near the earths poles
-the Erebus mountain is an active volcano
-international navigation system (INS)
-they were only supposed to go down to 6,000 feet but they went down to 450 feet.
-they were 30/40 feet away from where they thought they were

Video #2

-It took off from Auckland at 8:00 AM
-IT made a 45 minute stop at Christchurch to pick up more people
-$359 per person for the sightseeing plane
-There were 237 passengers aboard the plane
-2,000 feet of snow
-They said that they should go down to 1,500 ft
-It thought the snow was still clouds
-they circle twisted whilst descending
-unknown to the crew the aircraft was flying towards Erebus mountain, since it is covered in snow it is hard for the crew to see it.
-12:49 the alarm tells them to pull up
-they tried to turn the plane around but were unable to as it was to late.
-The aircraft broke and caught fire

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Resources- The videos above

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Reflection

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We are learning about the Eberus Plane Crash,

This work shows my learning because its stuff i learnt about the plane crash

I am wondering how everyone died, like they can't have all died from impact, some probably bleeding out and stuff.

Looking back on my predictions i was correct about what it was and the date and time.