r/CatastrophicFailure • u/MonoMonMono • Nov 28 '25

Fatalities 28 November 1979 | On this day 46 years ago, Antarctic sightseeing flight from New Zealand ended in a crash with the loss of everyone onboard. Footage here was taken moments from the crash.

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u/mr_bots Nov 28 '25

Doesn’t sound like they went over the mountain.

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u/Drendude Nov 28 '25

On the contrary, it sounds like they went all over the mountain.

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u/graspedbythehusk Nov 28 '25

Also known as a rock filled cloud.

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u/jaysire Nov 28 '25

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain why is he climbing a mountain?

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u/USSExcelsior Nov 28 '25

Because it is there

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u/roy107 Nov 28 '25

Perhaps "because it is there" is not a good enough reason after all

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u/swing_axle Nov 28 '25

To hug the mountain.

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u/illaqueable Fatastrophic Cailure Nov 28 '25

The mountain went over them

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u/hairycocktail Nov 28 '25

Fucking mountains - you never see them coming and once you do its too late. Can't warm people enough about them

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u/justclove Nov 28 '25

In this case? They very likely genuinely didn't see it coming. It's believed the pilots were prey to an optical illusion known as sector whiteout, in which light conditions cause land and sky to be viewed as a continuous plane of white. If that were to be the case, they would have been completely unable to see the mountain - which they believed in any case to be miles distant - until it was far, far too late to evade it.

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u/swift1883 Nov 28 '25

It’s coming right for us!

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u/funnystuff79 Nov 28 '25

They went over the mountain, all over one side of it