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Forty years on, New Zealand apologises for Antarctic plane disaster

Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologised on Thursday for the then-government’s handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country’s worst peacetime disaster. On 28th November, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 was on a sightseeing tour from Auckland when […]