<sod>'''Air New Zealand Flight 901''' (TE-901){{#tag:ref|At the time of the crash, Air New Zealand had two [[IATA code]]s, TE for international flights (a relic from Air New Zealand's predecessor, [[Tasman Empire Airways Limited]] (TEAL)) and NZ for domestic flights (acquired from the merger with the [[National Airways Corporation (New Zealand)|National Airways Corporation]] in April 1978). Despite being domestic flights from an immigration point-of-view, the Antarctic flights used the TE code for logistical reasons.|group="nb"}} was a scheduled [[Air New Zealand]] [[Antarctic]] sightseeing flight that operated between 1977 and 1979. The flight would leave [[Auckland Airport]] in the morning and spend a few hours flying over the Antarctic continent, before returning to Auckland in the evening via [[Christchurch International Airport|Christchurch]]. On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE-901, a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30]], [[Aircraft registration|registration]] ZK-NZP, flew into [[Mount Erebus]] on [[Ross Island]], Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board.<ref name="ASN">{{ASN accident|id= 19791128-0|title= ZK-NZP|accessdate=24 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title= DC-10 playbacks awaited|journal= [[Flight International]]|date= 15 December 1979|page= 1987|url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1979/1979%20-%204557.html|archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/6DuZGyLR1|archivedate= 24 January 2013|quote= At press time no information had been released concerning the flightdata and cockpit-voice recorder of Air New Zealand McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ZK-NZP which crashed on Mount Erebus on 28 November.}}</ref> The accident became known as the '''Mount Erebus disaster'''.<eod>
<sod>'''Air New Zealand Flight 901''' (TE-901){{#tag:ref|At the time of the crash, Air New Zealand had two [[IATA code]]s, TE for international flights (a relic from Air New Zealand's predecessor, [[Tasman Empire Airways Limited]] (TEAL)) and NZ for domestic flights (acquired from the merger with the [[National Airways Corporation (New Zealand)|National Airways Corporation]] in April 1978). Despite being domestic flights from an immigration point-of-view, the Antarctic flights used the TE code for logistical reasons.|group="nb"}} was a scheduled [[Air New Zealand]] [[Antarctic]] sightseeing flight that operated between 1977 and 1979. The flight would leave [[Auckland Airport]] in the morning and spend a few hours flying over the Antarctic continent, before returning to Auckland in the evening via [[Christchurch International Airport|Christchurch]]. On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE-901, a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30]], [[Aircraft registration|registration]] ZK-NZP, flew into [[Mount Erebus]] on [[Ross Island]], Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board.<ref name="ASN">{{ASN accident|id= 19791128-0|title= ZK-NZP|accessdate=24 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| title=DC-10 playbacks awaited| journal=[[Flight International]]| date=15 December 1979| page=1987| url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1979/1979%20-%204557.html| archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/6DuZGyLR1|archivedate= 24 January 2013|quote=At press time no information had been released concerning the flightdata and cockpit-voice recorder of Air New Zealand McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ZK-NZP which crashed on Mount Erebus on 28 November.}}</ref> The accident became known as the '''Mount Erebus disaster'''.<eod>