As a naval photographer, Hitchcock, then 19, was chosen to be a part of Operation Overdue, the recovery and identification of the 257 victims from the crash site of Air New Zealand Flight 901.

On Nov. 28, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 was on a sightseeing tour of Antarctica ... On Thursday, exactly 40 years after the crash, New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, apologized ...

It was an Air New Zealand ... panel of flight 901. A change in the flight path that wasn’t communicated to crew was found to have contributed to the crash. Picture: AP/New Zealand Archives ...

Air New Zealand flight TE901 slammed into the lower slopes of Mount Erebus while on a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. All 237 passengers and 20 crew were killed and the crash remains the worst ...

Erebus disaster that challenged the official government explanation for the crash and accused Air New Zealand of a cover-up campaign. Air New Zealand Flight 901 was a one-day sightseeing flyover ...

Robyn Dorday, from Napier, talks to Hawke's Bay Today reporter Nicki Harper about a report written by her late husband Alan Dorday. Family of victims of New Zealand's deadliest disaster are being ...

It was an Air New Zealand ... panel of flight 901. A change in the flight path that wasn’t communicated to crew was found to have contributed to the crash. Picture: AP/New Zealand Archives ...