Story: Air crashes

More links and websites

• Airways New Zealand

  Airways New Zealand is a commercial company responsible for managing all domestic and international air traffic. It provides navigational, statistical and other services to airlines and pilots flying into or over New Zealand, and to overseas organisations.

• Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

  The CAA establishes civil aviation safety and security standards, and monitors adherence to those standards.

• Police response to disaster

  This NZ History website article about disaster includes a section on the harrowing job of retrieving and identifying victims after the Erebus crash.

• The Erebus story

  This website, created by the New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association, has considerable information about the Erebus crash.

• Transport Accident Investigation Commission

  The Transport Accident Investigation Commission, established in 1990, investigates all aviation, rail or marine accidents and incidents within New Zealand.

• White Silence: a podcast about the Erebus disaster

  In this six-part podcast series from Stuff and RNZ, Michael Wright and Katy Gosset explore the origins and aftermath of New Zealand’s deadliest disaster.

More suggestions and sources

• Aimer, Peter. Wings of the nation: a history
  of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation,
  1947–78. Auckland: Bush, 2000.
• Ewing, Ross, and Ross McPherson. The history
  of New Zealand aviation. Auckland: Heinemann,
  1986.
• Guerin, Michael. Dash 8 down: the inside
  story of Ansett flight 703.
  Auckland: Random House, 2001.
• King, John. New Zealand tragedies: aviation
  accidents and disasters. Wellington: Grantham
  House, 1995.
• McGreal, Maurice E. A history of civil
  aviation in New Zealand. Auckland: David
  Bateman, 2003.
• Myles, Sarah. Towards the mountain: a story of grief and hope forty years on from Erebus. Auckland: Allen & Unwin, 2019.