AIR NEW ZEALAND FLIGHT TE901
MOUNT EREBUS, ANTARCTICA
WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 1979
On Wednesday 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand Flight TE901 crashed in to the side of Mount Erebus, Antarctica, during a sightseeing flight. This is New Zealand's biggest air disaster to date.
For further information see - MOUNT EREBUS AIR DISASTER.
Sunday 28 November 2004 marked 25 years since the Erebus disaster. A memorial service was held on the site and a specially commissioned poem by Bill MANHIRE was read by Sir Edmund Hillary.
Updated - Friday 9 November 2007 with ages and addresses taken from newspaper reports. If there are any errors in names etc, please let me know.
| ADDIS | Peter James | 29 | Te Atatu, Auckland | New Zealand |
| AISENMAN | Lleone Margaret | 39 | San Francisco, California | United States |
| ALLAN | Alan Lawrence Malyon | 59 | Clive, Hawkes Bay | New Zealand |
| ALLAN | Jane Phillipa | 17 | Clive, Hawkes Bay | New Zealand |
| ALLAN | Marjorie Townley | 66 | Clive, Hawkes Bay | New Zealand |
| ANDERSON | Audrey Gordon | - | - | United Kingdom |
| ANDERSON | Margaret Isabel | - | Devonport, Auckland | New Zealand |
| ANGLESEY | Grant William | 19 | Waitara, Taranaki | New Zealand |
| ARMITAGE | Ethel Mary | 73 | Milford, Auckland | New Zealand |
| ARNOLD | Melinda Maria | - | Manurewa, Auckland | New Zealand |
| ARNOLD | Valerie Ellen | - | Papatoetoe, Auckland | New Zealand |
| ASHTON | Graham Mitford | 63 | Orakei, Auckland | New Zealand |
| BAINBRIDGE | Thomas Eric | 40 | Meadowbank, Auckland | New Zealand |
| BALDWIN | Llewellyn Arnold (Peter) | 50 | Birkenhead, Auckland | New Zealand |
| BARNICK | Kay Marion | - | - | United States |
| BARNICK | Marion Ruth | - | - | United States |
| BEAUMONT | Earl Aubrey | - | - | Canada |
| BECKETT | Desmond William | 62 | Te Puke | New Zealand |
| BENNETT | David John | - | - | Assistant Purser |
| BLAIR | Patricia Adele | - | - | United States |
| BOND | Marilyn Alma | 48 | Blockhouse Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| BOND | Robin Melville | 54 | Blockhouse Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| BREHAUT | Ronald Thomas | 39 | Timaru | New Zealand |
| BROAD | John Philip Dr | 51 | Hamilton | New Zealand |
| BROAD | Philippa Margaret | - | - | New Zealand |
| BROOKS | Geraldine Kay | - | Timaru | New Zealand |
| BROOKS | Gordon Barrett | - | - | Flight Engineer |
| BROUGH | Aubrey Conroy | 68 | Thames | New Zealand |
| BUCHANAN | Geoffrey | 68 | Orewa | New Zealand |
| BURCKHALTER | Lucille Clark | - | - | United States |
| BURGESS | Lindsay Robert | 60 | Whangarei | New Zealand |
| BURGESS | Rose Ellen | 58 | Whangarei | New Zealand |
| BURGI | Heinz | - | Avondale, Auckland | New Zealand |
| BURTON | Lorraine Eileen | 42 | Thorndon, Wellington | New Zealand |
| BUTLER | Rae Jeanne | 43 | Waihi Beach | New Zealand |
| CAMERON | Rangiaho | 57 | Mt Wellington, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CAMPBELL | Stuart Donald | 22 | Whakatane (From Te Puke) | New Zealand |
| CARLETON | John Barrie | 46 | Otahuhu, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CARLETON | Marion Rennie | - | - | New Zealand |
| CARR | Margaret Bell | 64 | Whangarei | New Zealand |
| CARR-SMITH | Elizabeth Mary | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| CASSIN | Gregory Mark | - | - | First Officer |
| CATER | Graham Ronald | - | - | Senior Cabin Crew |
| CHADDERTON | Brian Harry | - | Papatoetoe, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CHADDERTON | Valerie Enid | - | Papatoetoe, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CHRISTIANSEN | Alla | - | - | New Zealand |
| CHRISTMAS | Hugh Francis | 58 | New Plymouth | New Zealand |
| CLARK | David | 60 | Mt Wellington, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CLARK | Irene Alice | 75 | Belmont, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CLARK | Iris | 65 | Takanini, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CLARK | William Henry | 67 | Takanini, Auckland | New Zealand |
| COCKRILL | Joan Audrey | - | - | New Zealand |
| COLBRAN | Cyril Bernard | 49 | Invercargill | New Zealand |
| COLBRAN | Yvonne Louise | 45 | Invercargill | New Zealand |
| COLE | John Wright | - | Westmere, Auckland | New Zealand |
| COLLINS | Martin John | - | - | Purser |
| COLLINS | Thomas James (Jim) | - | - | Captain |
| COPAS | Jean Ann Barnett | 46 | Puketapu, Hawkes Bay | New Zealand |
| COPLEY | Susan Elaine | - | - | United Kingdom |
| COPSEY | Audrey Joy | 55 | Pukekohe | New Zealand |
| COREY | Constance Dr | 46 | Epsom, Auckland | United States |
| CRABTREE | Mary Alison | 68 | Takapuna, Auckland | New Zealand |
| CRABTREE | Norman David | 72 | Takapuna, Auckland | New Zealand |
| DAHL | Marie Patricia | 57 | Broadmeadows, Wellington | New Zealand |
| DAVIES | June | - | - | Australia |
| DAWSON | Peter Massie | 50 | Pio Pio | New Zealand |
| DEAN | Kay | 22 | Reporoa | New Zealand |
| DEBBAGE | Florence Daisy | - | - | New Zealand |
| DEMARGE | Nora Violet | - | - | New Zealand |
| DUFF | Helen Dora | - | - | United States |
| DUKE | Athol David | 18 | Epsom, Auckland | New Zealand |
| DYKZUEL | Hermanus Adrianus Johannes Maria Douglas | - | Wiri, Auckland | New Zealand |
| DYKZUEL | Johannes Cabrini Maria | - | Morrinsville | New Zealand |
| EAGLES | Gwen Louise | - | - | New Zealand |
| EDWARDS | Edna Miriam | - | - | New Zealand |
| EDWARDS | Elizabeth Jane | 30 | Naenae, Hutt Valley | United Kingdom |
| EMMETT | Cecillia Campbell | 62 | Te Awamutu | New Zealand |
| EMMETT | John Barnham | - | Te Awamutu | New Zealand |
| FERRELL | Jean | - | - | United States |
| FINDLAY | Michael James | - | - | Assistant Purser |
| FROST | Katherine Edith Janet | - | - | New Zealand |
| FURUKAWA | Kuniyasu | - | - | Japan |
| GALLAGHER | Alfred James | 73 | Remuera, Auckland | New Zealand |
| GALLAGHER | Elsie Thelma | - | Remuera, Auckland | New Zealand |
| GIBBS | Brucie | - | - | New Zealand |
| GILLIVER | Richard | - | - | New Zealand |
| GOSLING | Violet Iris | - | - | New Zealand |
| GOTO | Norio | - | - | Japan |
| GULLAND | Pamela Margaret | - | Bucklands Beach, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HANCE | Florence Lee | - | - | United States |
| HANSEN | Marlene Anne | - | - | New Zealand |
| HARRIS | Hazel Phoebe | 60 | Hamilton | New Zealand |
| HARRISON | Annie | 50 | Takapuna, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HARRISON | Muriel Florence Rose | 78 | Campbell's Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HARTLEY | James Follett | 36 | Otorohanga | New Zealand |
| HARTY | Myra Pearl | 82 | Devonport, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HAWORTH | Kathleen | 47 | Forrest Hill, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HAWORTH | Peter | 52 | Forrest Hill, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HIGUCHI | Mitsuo | - | - | Japan |
| HILL | Eileen Elsie | 73 | Lower Hutt | New Zealand |
| HILL | Gordon Alexander | - | - | New Zealand |
| HOLLOWAY | Jean Marie | 63 | Glenfield, Auckland | United Kingdom |
| HOLTHAM | Bryan Ernest | 35 | Invercargill | New Zealand |
| HOTSON | Roy Henry | 58 | Tuakau | New Zealand |
| HOUGHTON | John Greenleaf | 39 | Dunedin | United States |
| HOWARTH | Ralph Brenton | 31 | Tauranga | New Zealand |
| HUGHES | Steven William | 32 | Bucklands Beach, Auckland | New Zealand |
| HUMPHREY | Mildred Alice | 69 | Orewa | New Zealand |
| HYNDMAN | Thomas William Noel | 60 | Blockhouse Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| IMAI | Akira | - | - | Japan |
| IMAI | Hisao | - | - | Japan |
| JAHN | Ernest Adalbert | - | Kingwood, NJ | United States |
| JAHN | Isabel | - | Kingwood, NJ | United States |
| JARVIS | Nicholas Dunstan | 43 | Glenfield, Auckland | New Zealand |
| JENKINS | Evelyn Lois | - | Birkenhead, Auckland | New Zealand |
| JENNINGS | Charles Ivory | 44 | Taradale | New Zealand |
| KARL | Kathleen Florence | 61 | Ellerslie, Auckland | New Zealand |
| KEARNEY | Dennis Frances | 40 | Hillsborough, Auckland | New Zealand |
| KEENAN | Dianne | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| KEITH | John Edgar | 39 | Whangarei | New Zealand |
| KENDON | Nancy Phyllis | 67 | Howick, Auckland | New Zealand |
| KERR | Betty | - | New Lynn, Auckland | New Zealand |
| KERR | Francis Ronald | - | New Lynn, Auckland | New Zealand |
| KERR | Geoffrey Ian Hamilton | 21 | Wanganui | New Zealand |
| KILSBY | Anthony John | 43 | Levin | New Zealand |
| KILSBY | Geoffrey Michael | 35 | Levin | New Zealand |
| KING | Nancy | 62 | Russell | New Zealand |
| KIRK | Donald Clive | - | - | New Zealand |
| KITAGAWA | Asako | - | - | Japan |
| KLASSOVITY | Paul Anthony | - | - | United States |
| KLENSCH | Carl Robert | - | - | United States |
| LAKE | Mary Louise | - | - | United States |
| LARSEN | William Olaf | - | Raetihi | New Zealand |
| LAVIN | James Francis | 58 | Half Moon Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| LEPINE | Yves | - | - | France |
| LEWIS | James Charles | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| LIES | Michael Ralph | - | - | United States |
| LING | Alison Louise | 60 | Titirangi, Auckland | New Zealand |
| LOCHER | Urs | 29 | Kelston, Auckland | New Zealand |
| LOMAX | William Brian | - | Kawerau | New Zealand |
| LOUGHNAN | Charles Henry Devenish | 66 | Tauranga | New Zealand |
| LOUGHNAN | Patrick Louis | 61 | Tauranga | New Zealand |
| LUCAS | Graham Neville | - | - | Flight Crew ? |
| MacKENZIE | John Alexander | 62 | Manurewa, Auckland | New Zealand |
| MacKENZIE | Margaret Joyce (Peg) | 62 | Hawkes Bay | New Zealand |
| MacKENZIE | Stella Conomrie | - | - | New Zealand |
| MADGWICK | Eudora Emily | 36 | Whangaparoa | New Zealand |
| MAGNELL | Muriel | - | - | United States |
| MAGNELL | Theodore James | - | - | United States |
| MANLEY | David Victor | 37 | Cambridge | New Zealand |
| MANN | Dorothy Maude | 49 | Te Atatu, Auckland | New Zealand |
| MARINOVIC | Suzanne Margaret | - | - | Senior Cabin Crew |
| MARSDEN | Dorothy | - | Tokoroa | New Zealand |
| MARSDEN | Joseph Alan | 45 | Tokoroa | New Zealand |
| MARTIN | Sarah Jane | 65 | Blockhouse Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| MASKELYNE | Trevor John | 26 | New Plymouth | New Zealand |
| MASON | Robert | - | - | New Zealand |
| MATTHEWS | Barbara Dawn | - | Palmerston North | New Zealand |
| MAXWELL | Bruce Rhodes | - | - | Senior Cabin Crew |
| MAYNARD | Olive Myrtle | 54 | Thames | New Zealand |
| MAYNARD | William George | - | Thames | New Zealand |
| McDONALD | Shirley Jane | - | Palmerston North (From Okaiawa, near Hawera) | New Zealand |
| McKENDRY | Richard John | 33 | Wellington | New Zealand |
| McMILLAN | John Bruce | 64 | Gisborne | New Zealand |
| McMILLAN | Melba Pearl | 63 | Gisborne | New Zealand |
| McNAMARA | Bernard Joseph | - | Pauanui, Tairua | New Zealand |
| McNEIL | Eric Albert Dunbar | - | Onehunga, Auckland | New Zealand |
| McPHERON | Roy William | - | - | Chief Purser |
| MEIER | Jurg | - | - | Switzerland |
| MITCHELL | Mark Geoffrey | 17 | Lower Hutt | New Zealand |
| MITSUHASHI | Junichi | - | - | Japan |
| MITSUHASHI | Nakako | - | - | Japan |
| MOLONEY | Nicholas John | - | - | Flight Engineer |
| MORRISON | Katrina Mary June | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| MULGREW | Peter David | - | - | New Zealand |
| MUNRO | Ross | 34 | Otorohanga | New Zealand |
| MURRAY | Owen John | 33 | Mataura, Gore | New Zealand |
| NICHOLSON | Christine Margaret | 26 | Christchurch | New Zealand |
| NODA | Shigeru | - | - | Japan |
| O'CONNOR | Ian John | 41 | Timaru | New Zealand |
| ODANI | Hiroko | - | - | Japan |
| ODANI | Morihiko | - | - | Japan |
| OLIVER | Mervyn John | 65 | Palmerston North | New Zealand |
| ONO | Tetsuro | - | - | Japan |
| OSAWA | Juhei | - | - | Japan |
| OSAWA | Masa | - | - | Japan |
| OZAWA | Norio | - | - | Japan |
| PALMER | David Lloyd | 31 | Stanmore Bay, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PALMER | Edward James | 63 | Tauranga | New Zealand |
| PALMER | Gary Kent | - | - | New Zealand |
| PARKKARI | Eija Kylli Marjatta | - | - | Canada |
| PATERSON | Ethel Mary | 54 | Onehunga, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PATERSON | Linda Jan | 22 | Onehunga, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PAYKEL | Nola Minchin | - | Devonport, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PAYNE | Alfred Murray | 34 | Remuera, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PEACOCKE | Marjorie Ethel Isabella | - | - | New Zealand |
| PETHERS | Carla | 49 | Takapuna, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PLUMMER | Alexander Francis | 85 | Pakuranga, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PLUMMER | Hilda Francis | - | Hamilton | New Zealand |
| POTTER | Michael Arthur Edwin | 53 | Whangaparoa | New Zealand |
| PRESTON | Robert John | - | - | New Zealand |
| PRICE | Beatrice Irene | 86 | Sandringham, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PRICE | Beverley | - | Sandringham, Auckland | New Zealand |
| PRIDMORE | Joy Agnes | 40 | Levin | New Zealand |
| RAWLINS | Valerie (Vere) Mary | 76 | Mt Eden, Auckland | New Zealand |
| REVELL | Basil Halvor | 52 | Waiwera | New Zealand |
| REVELL | Eileen Geraldine | - | Waiwera | New Zealand |
| RICHMOND | Pamela Gayl | 24 | Mt Eden, Auckland | New Zealand |
| ROBB | Helen Lady | - | Remuera, Auckland | New Zealand |
| ROBERTS | Alison Meryl | 46 | Wellington | New Zealand |
| ROBERTS | Michael Seaver | 47 | Wellington | New Zealand |
| ROBINSON | Betty Estelle | 36 | Pariate, Hawkes Bay | New Zealand |
| RUDEN | Karl | - | - | United States |
| SATO | Hisako | - | - | Japan |
| SCOTT | Marie Theresa | 40 | Dunedin | New Zealand |
| SCOTT | Russell Morrison | - | Takapuna, Auckland | Purser |
| SEKI | Michi | - | - | Japan |
| SEKI | Toshiro | - | - | Japan |
| SHEPPARD | George M | - | - | United States |
| SHIGETA | Seishiro | - | - | Japan |
| SHINONOYA | Ryoichi | - | - | Japan |
| SICKLEMORE | David Brian | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| SIMMONS | Stephen George | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| SMITH | Betty Louise | 49 | Whangarei | New Zealand |
| SMYTHE | Henry Howard | 55 | Thames | New Zealand |
| STEEL | Ralph Augustus | - | - | United States |
| STEVENSON | Anthony James Leonard | - | Picton | New Zealand |
| STEWART | Donald Matthew | 35 | Birkenhead, Auckland | New Zealand |
| STOKES | Alan Maxwell | 51 | Pakuranga, Auckland | New Zealand |
| STOREY | Phyllis May | 58 | Mt Wellington, Auckland | New Zealand |
| TAKADA | Masaaki | - | - | Japan |
| TANTON | Peter Alex | 60 | Manly, NSW | Australia |
| TAYLOR | Douglas Clement Frank | 56 | Whangarei | New Zealand |
| THOMAS | Roy Pearce | - | - | New Zealand |
| THOMAS | Walter Daniel | 69 | Whangaparoa | New Zealand |
| THOMPSON | Billie Tadlock | - | - | United States |
| THOMPSON | Henry Ford | - | - | United States |
| THOMPSON | Watson | - | - | New Zealand |
| TREMAINE | Florence Anne | - | Taupo | New Zealand |
| TREMAINE | Robert David | 60 | Taupo | New Zealand |
| TRINDER | Elaine Frances | 26 | Epsom, Auckland | United Kingdom |
| WARD | Henry | 58 | Henderson, Auckland | New Zealand |
| WARD | Valerie | 57 | Henderson, Auckland | New Zealand |
| WATSON | Isobel | 65 | Mt Albert, Auckland | New Zealand |
| WATSON | Katherine | 64 | Eastbourne, Wellington | New Zealand |
| WEBB | Alfred William | - | Waitoa, Morrinsville | New Zealand |
| WILLIAMS | Janet Challlis | 70 | Hastings | New Zealand |
| WILLIAMS | Janet Mary | 60 | Havelock North | New Zealand |
| WILLIAMS | Leonard Heathcote | 60 | Havelock North | New Zealand |
| WOLFERT | Marie-Therese | - | - | Cabin Crew |
| WOOD | Barbara Annie | 66 | Kiritea, Thames | New Zealand |
| WOOD | Irvine Kirkham | 72 | Kiritea, Thames | New Zealand |
| WORTH | Linda | 74 | Epsom, Auckland | New Zealand |
| YANAGISAWA | Hamako | - | - | Japan |
| YANAGISAWA | Nobuyoshi | - | - | Japan |
| YOKOYAMA | Ryoji | - | - | Japan |
| ZOLL | Otmar | 46 | New Lynn, Auckland | New Zealand |
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