Episode 44: Air New Zealand Flight 901

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Who wouldn't like to go on a sightseeing flight? Have a glass of champagne, mingle with your fellow sightseers, and peer down in wonder at the glorious sights below. But for Air New Zealand Flight 901, the November 28, 1979, flight wouldn't end with a cheery goodbye to Antarctica and a swift turnaround back to Auckland, but in a smoldering pile of wreckage on the slopes of Mount Erebus.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise and a little housekeeping before we go on.
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0:39.0	whatever help you can give me. Second of all, a quick apology for taking a bit long to get this
0:45.1	episode out. This past weekend, my baby brother went and got married, and I spent a lot of last
0:50.9	week making my dress, which involved a little more work than I thought. And then there were Nazis, so I spent a lot of last week making my dress, which involved a little more work than I thought.
0:59.0	And then there were Nazis, so I got a tad distracted.
1:02.0	I'm also still working on the AIDS series. I just need to work on the notes for the next few episodes a bit more before I proceed.
1:07.0	And finally, please bear with me regarding some of the times and measurements in this episode.
1:13.5	From what I was able to discern mainland, New Zealand, and the area of McMurdo Sound on
1:19.2	Antarctica or only an hour apart, of course, that depends on the source I looked at. The time is
1:24.9	really weird. But some of the sources that I used varied in terms of which
1:29.8	times they used. So if that is correct, I got a time zone calculator that said they're both
1:35.8	the same, whatever. Basically, if I'm an hour off anywhere, I do apologize. There are also some
1:43.0	measurements in meters and some in feet throughout
1:45.5	the episode, as I didn't stick with one particular measurement or length given the number of
1:49.9	sources I used. They were all kind of different, so basically there are some that are feet,
1:55.7	there are some that are meters. Just bear with me. And with that in mind, thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area.
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