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Mt erebus crash site today11/28/2023 Labour MP Marja Lubeck - a former flight attendant, union president and E tū Head of Aviation - will attend the service on behalf of the government.Į tū says it also remembers today the five Kiwi aviation workers who died in 2008 when their Air New Zealand A320 crashed off the coast of Perpignan, France. On 22 December 1978, a small Cessna 188 aircraft, piloted by Jay Prochnow, became lost over the Pacific Ocean. "The event is particularly poignant this year, as we consider the upheaval and thousands of job losses for aviation workers as a result of the pandemic.” Townsend says a small gathering of about 20-30 people is expected to attend the service, including friends and whānau of those who lost their lives, as well as current crew. The Mount Erebus disaster was (and still is) New Zealands worst peacetime disaster. (Photo courtesy New Zealand Press Association) wreckage were removed from Ross Island over. The one-minute silence at 1.49pm will mark the moment of impact when passengers and crew on Air New Zealand flight TE901 lost their lives in the tragedy on the slopes of Mt Erebus in Antarctica 41 years ago.Ī wreath-laying ceremony will be held at the crew memorial garden near Auckland Airport in Māngere this afternoon. Until Air New Zealand flew a DC-10 and all its passengers into the side of a volcano. “Today marks a day when our national airline, the nation, and the families of those aboard, suffered a great tragedy," says Dayna Townsend, an E tū union organiser. The union representing aviation workers has invited Kiwis to join in observing a minute's silence this afternoon in remembrance of the 237 passengers and 20 crew lost in Air New Zealand’s Mt Erebus disaster 41 years ago today.
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