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This Air New Zealand booklet was given to every passenger on a sightseeing flight to Antarctica on 21 November 1979, one week before the fatal crash of Air New Zealand flight 901 on Mt Erebus, Ross Island, on 28 November 1979. All 257 people on board were killed. It remains the worst civil disaster in New Zealand's history.
Sightseeing flights to Antarctica had started in February 1977 and were very successful.
The booklet includes comprehensive coverage of the 11-hour return sightseeing flight, photographs of previous trips, and photographs of early explorers and wildlife (e.g. penguins). It was given to passenger Sheena Hudson on the 21 November 1979 trip. She had 'an amazing flight and I was pretty shattered when the crash happened the next week. I had wanted to see Antarctica and it was magic'. The flight inspired her to apply as a general hand at Scott Base in 1985.