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- Title
- Erebus - Operation Overdue
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
When 257 people died on an Air New Zealand sightseeing tour to Antarctica in November 1979, a team of 11 Kiwi police officers were sent to help recover their bodies. This award-winning 70 minute docudrama chronicles the harrowing and life-changing fortnight the police experienced, in perilous conditions. Co-director Charlotte Purdy has close ties to the disaster — her uncle Gordon Brooks, an Air New Zealand engineer, died in the crash. Roundhill ski field in the South Island stands in for Mt ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2014
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/erebus-operation-overdue-2014
- Related subjects
- erebus - into the unknown / danger / peter rhodes / pilot / ice axe / destruction / mountain / birds / ringbinder / morrie davis / sue marinovich / cover up / justice mahon / royal commission enquiry / stuart leighton / disaster victim identification / air new zealand / plane crash / disaster / antarctica / mt erebus / ross island / crevasse / snow / sightseeing / dc 10 / flight te901 / police / operation overdue / greg gilpin / jerry power / bob mitchell / jim collins / death / mark penn / mcmurdo station / nz on air / new zealand on air
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