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The sky that blinded and the eyes that saw what they expected
Previously on Scribblings… this week I’ve been writing about Air New Zealand flight TE901, an Antarctic passenger sightseeing flight that crashed into Mt. Erebus on November 28, 1979, killing all aboard. Yesterday, I looked at the institutional mistakes that were made leading up to the tragic accident. Today, the accident itself.
In the cockpit of flight 901 were Captain Jim Collins, co-pilot Greg Cassin, flight engineers Gordon Brooks and Nick Moloney, and tour guide Peter Mulgrew, a close friend and fellow adventurer of Sir Edmund Hillary himself; Hillary and Mulgrew alternated tour guide duties on the Antarctic flights, and Mulgrew was in fact filling in for Hillary, who had a prior commitment on the day of the flight. … Read more
