Mount Erebus Disaster - The Shocking True Story of Air New Zealand Flight 901 | FD History
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- Mount Erebus Disaster - The Shocking True Story of Air New Zealand Flight 901 | History Documentary
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On 28 November 1979, a jet carrying 257 passengers crashed into Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Within hours, 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty. Travelling to the most inhospitable place on earth to deal with one of the world’s worst air disasters, they were pushed to their limits.
As they started recovering the victims, an investigation team tried to uncover the mystery of how a jet could fly into a mountain in broad daylight. Did the airline have a secret it wanted to bury? For the first time, senior staff from Air New Zealand give us the inside story.
Mixing high quality reconstructions with original archive and interviews and filmed in the beautiful environment of Antarctica, this is the compelling true story of an extraordinary police operation.
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Wonderful documentary. No sensationalism, no loud dramatic music, no over editing and repeating and above all no annoying overbearing narration.
Heroic effort from these guys. Nobody should be obliged to see all that.
Wow you’re hard to please
I always find it hilarious a bunch of free loaders on TH-cam expecting everything to be perfect and exactly the way they want it lol
This is free TV bud maybe lower your standards a little bit
you're that guy that complains about the free salad bar at the restaurant😂😂😂😂😂
True. The only thing I didn’t like was that sing during the part where they located the wreckage.
@@NocturnalNewsTRACY THEY WERE just GIVING THIS CHANNEL A COMPLIMENT! Don’t be a boob. Lol ❤😛
@@Chocobohunteryou must not know to accept a compliment. Only mean troll comments like you left.
I served on three crash site recoveries while in the Air Force and can identify with everything these men experienced. Burned or rotting, human remains have a distinct indescribable odor, one you never forget, and the images of the bodies or parts of bodies haunt me to this day. You do have to dehumanize the process in order to get through it, because you have have a job to do: to get the remains home to their families, but dealing with it afterwards is hard. God bless these guys.
I had flashbacks and horribly vivid dreams after seeing event's like pedestrian vs double decker bus @ 55 mph
Good on you for doing this work, the families have to be most grateful for your help, Im sure it can’t be easy.
I have scelti a person decomposing and it's horrific. No way to describe it and quite unique. Makes us who have smelt it realise that we are nothing. So much anger and evilness in the world and all for what? In the end we all rot away. These men are commendable ❤
Thank you for rendering a vital service to your country and humanity.
Nature rewards those like you, always
I know I'm just some arbitrary person that watched this but I was deeply affected by this documentary I just happened to stumble across. All the men involved in the recovery process are heroes. The tenacity these men showed, even when they were physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted, enabled them to complete such a daunting task. Thank you for honoring all involved!
Amen
AMEN
I couldn’t say it any better. Well put together program; I’m glad that what these men did has been recognized.
You are not some arbitrary person to me ❤
Thanks. Saved me from commenting. 😢
The amount of courage and just resiliency is really something to admire. These men took their job very seriously even when it wasnt their normal jobs. Thanks to eveey single person that assisted on this
My grandfather was stationed in Antarctica and was part of the crew that pulled out every last body and body part from this crash. He suffers from ptsd from it.
This documentary moved me very much. I hope your grandfather was there to finally receive the recognition he deserves. Shocking how they were treated when they got back. Ignored and left on their own.
I heard from another documentary that every individual who helped recover the bodies suffered from PTSD. Does anyone know if that’s true?
Thanks to your Grandfather and the others for doing such a traumatic job. I’m not surprised if they all have ptsd 😢❤
@@connorvincent4652wouldn't at all be surprised.
God bless him and the others who helped. 🙏
Sad it took 27 years for these brave men to receive the recognition of their monumental efforts to bring peace to so many families around the world.
There was serious corruption and cover-up involved. And it's unlikely that this tragedy will ever be investigated again given who rules in New Zealand now. I'm sure that many people have wanted this affair completely forgotten ever since it happened.
I lived in NZ when this happened, a young boy of 15 was working at the same place I was working. He lost both his parents on this flight. It turned a happy kid into a very distubed young man. It was very sad to see him change.
Oh that's awful. As I'm forever reminded, you'll never win the lottery but a ridiculous disaster like this has a great chance 😕
@@loretta_3843 But be thankful: not as much nowadays. Today, the risk among the 1st tier airlines is a tiny trickle compared to the 1970s.
@@cchris874I agree with you. The awful thing is that a lot of the safety measures are due to tombstone technology. That's what I find the saddest part. Along with a lot of the disasters in the 1970's and 1980's being caused by money taking precedence over safety. The amount of times that was the root cause of a disaster back then was appalling.
An old Kiwi mate here in Australia lost every adult in his family and he became an orphan. His mum, dad, auntie and granny.
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg The 17 year old brother of my best mate was on the plane, he was gifted the trip by a friend of the family. I still think of the life never lived 44 years later.
To all of you on the mountain: I see and admire you. You did something almost inhuman. You had no training and were not prepared. To live in those conditions at the same time as that tragedy next to you. The sun that shines constantly. You truly are what heroes are made of. I commend you and thank you.
Absolutely. Hear hear. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much for making this available, at your own cost, to anyone willing to watch. It's an excellently done, moving documentary that, to the extent possible, and without sensationalizing anything, tries to convey the magnitude of a horrific event as experienced by the men on the frontline. Simply unfathomable.
The amount of time that goes into making these is amazing. It doesn't go unappreciated
thank you!
This channel only uploads them to TH-cam. Somehow gets past Copyright.
@@splitman1129 dude. we purchase the licensing rights to each and every documentary in our library we don't produce ourselves. But hey, thanks for stopping by with such insightful comments.
Just to inform you that most older TH-cam documentaries are not made by the TH-cam channel is question, but have previously been made by TV companies, which are then uploaded to YT. This is no exception and old BBC documentaries are often found on YT. The Falklands War documentaries are a good example of this fact.
is this a common or a competitive youtube creator category. just curious
No words for those brave men. RIP all the victims.
I just watched this documentary on November 28th, 2023, exactly 43 years after the accident of Air New Zealand flight 901. It left me shocked and completely numb because of how very graphic the images of the bodies are! Please remember and pray for all these innocent victims who died and for their families throughout the world. God bless them all.
Same.
Praying for people after death is non effective and has no effect. Prayers are for the living.
@@reneesantiago6496sometimes when we're praying for the people we are praying for their family. That is what we really mean. The comment is rude and wasn't needed as people have a hard way of expressing their feelings in a situation like this and are simply usually repeating what they have heard which is pray for those who have died which we do. We pray that their souls are safe and comforted and not distressed after what they experienced in death and that they are at and the prayer extends to their family and all that loved them. You're slapping somebody for their expression of sympathy is simply you're being a troll.
@@reneesantiago6496
“Prayers for the living” do no good either. So your sanctimonious comment is completely inappropriate. Prayer has been studied over and over and it works 50/50 or at no better than the rate of chance. And it’s much less effective than a placebo. So who cares when you do it? If a person is religious and praying make them feel better, then why is it anyone else’s business? After all if the pilots and crew were religious , I’m sure they were praying and that did no good. If there was a god and it cared, it could easily have had the plane clear the mountain instead of just watching it crash, killing hundreds of people. Since that never happens, who cares when or how someone else prays?
God is the God of the living.. That's why it Is called an Accident. God does care ,we are Humans remember and we live in a high tech age, nothing last and nothing is perfect. Yes prayer works,God hears prayers of the saints his people that have gotten ready no matter what. Just be saved ,make sure of your salvation.
The pictures taken by the people on flight 901, just before it crashed and as it was actually crashing, are the most haunting things I've ever seen in regards to this disaster. Great documentary and thanks for uploading it. There's another very good one, made just after the crash, that focuses on the inquiry, as well as the actual events leading up to the crash and the crash itself.
I didn’t realize anyone was actually recording when it crashed.
@@Nomaaaaamthere's pictures taken just before it crashed into Mt Erebus. It shows the window of the plane, and then just white through the window. I'm sure there's a very similar picture that shows something splattered on the outside of the window of the plane. In this documentary actually. 41:36
🎉wonderful men to take this job especially having no experience. I think you brave men did an excellent job recovering the bodies which was a horrid thing to deal with. All of you are HERO'S! God Bless you all and your families! Also all the familes that lost loved ones in that horrible plane crash! 🙏🙏
From what I understand there is more film footage that has been withheld from the public all these years.
This is still a raw event. How the hell those executives weren't charged with manslaughter at a minimum. RIP all those who died, condolence to their family and friends and love to those who recovered the remains.
Corporate manslaughter and corporate negligence. I absolutely agree with you.
There was a reply, buy youtuber has deleted it
Yes. We want to know why they were given the wrong coordinates.
All goes back to free masons..shell oil, corruption....rotten to the core. .
I was a 23 year old in New Zealand when this happened. I remember the grief and the somber mood of everyone. There was such a common unity of sadness and disbelief in society. I had a friend whose Mum and Dad died on that flight.
you set out on a fly over your experience seeing the Antarctic and its icy beauty and then you never come back.
So sorry for her loss!! 😢
Documentary was a little boring though
@@lionheart4552Could you do it better?Show compassion instead!
@@karenhoward6712 Okay, Karen.
In the hearts and minds of viewers I would say the pilots are completely without guilt. Most horrifying is those few seconds when the reality of their
situation showed the inevitable - thankfully brief. The men who went to the mountain are courageous beyond belief. What beautiful beings men can be!
The pilots were given WRONG coordinates which would have led them to crash into the mountain regardless. The airline covered this up for ages while blaming pilot error. Truly awful!!
It's true Air New Zealand were wrong to lie about changing the DC10's computer's way point coordinates without telling the flight crew, but if the pilot had gone to full power and climbed steeply as soon as the Ground Proximity Warning started blaring, they would have been safe as proven by flight simulator reenactments.
@@johnwatt2748 It's easy in a flight simulator, but if everyone of those simulator pilots was on that flight, they would have been just as confused as the actual pilots were and would have been smashed into the volcano.
Crash recovery work is never fun. I can still vividly remember the smell and body parts that I'd recovered, bagged and tagged. The memories never go away. Kudos to these guys.
Thank you so much for making this available, at your own cost, to anyone willing to watch. It's an excellently done, moving documentary that, to the extent possible, tries to convey the magnitude of a horrific event as experienced by the men on the frontline. Simply unfathomable.
This was excellent. These men are heroes for what they did for the families of those who perished on this flight.❤🙏
I was going to write exactly the same thing x
This is an absolute stunning documentary. I thought I knew so much about this disaster already but this showed a whole other world of tragedy. Beautiful and touchingly portrayed.
I applaud the guy who chasing the birds this must be a heart breaking remembering their love ones and family. This guys are true hero in the eyes of new Zealanders and us. Thanks to FD, for filming this accidents, all actors are good.
We didn’t do the filming. But we were lucky enough to get a good licensing deal.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistoryTHANK YOU for doing that so more people can appreciate these heroes!!! CHEERS mate!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇳🇿
These guys are heroes. They worked through the most hellish and horrific conditions imaginable. Just . . . gruesome carnage . . . trying to reunite the remains of the deceased with their familes back home, and trying to find those all-important data recorders. Absolute unsung heroes. Thank you for doing the hard work that had to be done.
Only 3k views. I think this video deserves more than 30M views. This is a gem and a wholesome of this incident. There are really very less footprints of this incident. Most of the people don't know about this incident unlike MH370. Hats off to you guys.. Great job guys.💚💚💚
i know right? I hope it gets lots more views. I really do
@@steveallen648 This documentary was released in 2014, so you couldn't have watched it 20 years ago. Perhaps it was another documentary.
Maybe it was MT Erebus-The Aftermath that you saw 20 years ago. Another great documentary on this terrible disaster.
@@tiadaid it was probably the one from 1986, in that case that was a docudrama.
"Only 3k views." Did you comment that the day they uploaded??
These men are the true definition of the word hero. They deserved so much better. Took almost two decades before they got any sort of recognition for the amazing things that they did. They all made the ultimate sacrifice, that stuck with them almost half of a lifetime later.
I doubt they were volunteers.
Who was responsible for sending these untrained men to a most extreme place on Earth? Second disaster in the making.
@@Anton-tf9iw / Right. Why send cops if not there to do an investigation?
1980-2007. 27 years.
@@longfade Did you even watch the video? These men needed recognition. Just because a thing is "their damned job" doesn't mean they are not affected.
I'm so glad that these men finally received the recognition they deserved. I hope they continue to heal and with each passing day it all gets put a little further behind them.
Holy heck; what a devastating airplane crash; I hope the people on the plane didn’t suffer long. Having been in a car crash and knocked completely unconscious, I hope they didn’t suffer.
How devastating to be flown out to the scene of a horrific airplane crash and have to collect the bodies and discover why it happened; these men are true heroes and May God Bless them all. It’s usually the men who ALWAYS take on such horrifically devastating tasks and these days, no one seems to appreciate them for ALWAYS doing them. We need to appreciate our men and their strength of character more.
They didn't know what hit them. The compression wave would have traveled faster than the speed of sound, micro sec and basically, that's really what blasted the passenger compartment 1st knocking all to bits and then nano sec later impact. That's not enough time for the human brain to register sound or visual, even the autonomic nervous ... fight or flight instinct... I'm sure they would have chosen flight... Har dy Har har.. I'll show myself out
I so appreciate the men in the world who throughout history have done the tasks which only they can do because of their biological and physical strength. And then they have to keep a stiff upper lip. My mother was a New Zealander.
@@elizabethschreiner5151 If the plane was flying at 404 km/h, that would be 112 metres/sec. Tfuselage was 55 metres in length. That means that unless the plane skidded, it would take half a second for the impact to consume the fuselage. Given the oblique angle between the aircraft's motion and the slope of the mountain, it took perhaps a second or two for the entire deceleration and disintegration to take place. I have seen a somewhat smaller aircraft (Nimrod, based on the Comet 4) crash into water, but that was pretty quick, perhaps a third of a second, with the fuselage exploding.
Thank you for this.
It is heartbreaking that it took so long to recognize such extraordinary people.
A brilliant documentary, those young men who went to recover all the bodies, are absolute heroes. Unbelievable amount of trauma they had to endure.
I do not understand why regular cops were assigned this.
Someone, please explain. I'm from the states and this seems absurd. Why? Rescue mountaineers are assigned to rescue in the mountains
I came to the comments to ask this same question..@@barbaracollins5605
Yea especially when it wasn't considered a crime scene.
@@barbaracollins5605while Erebus is a tall mountain it's not "overly" tall at roughly 3800m (12500ft) and the plane crashed very low on the slope as they were flying in-between 1000ft (305m) and 3000ft (910m) before the impact, the wreckage lies only 1500ft (450m) above the sea level on the slope so I doesn't really warrants the use of mountaneering team, specially when a settlement/support base the size of McMurdo and Scot acessible is nearby by helo.
I guess the thought cops might be able to either locate the body fragments better or cope better with the scene due to their crime experience? Personally I would've thought of firefighters before cops but I digress...
@@fernandomarques5166 I don't consider altitude to be the primary issue here. It's the hazardous conditions of the recovery work taking place on what is essentially a glacier & in arctic (Antarctica) conditions.
This has to be one of the best documentaries I have ever seen!! No words…..true heroes!!!!
One of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time.
My heart swells with the pride of the family of Officers & Servicemen just doing their job. People who are there on someone’s worst day doing the things that honours the hurt & fallen through decency.
~~A Blue Line family
First of all, I would like to say a HUGE thank you to all involved in the recovery of bodies at Mt Erebus. You did a grand job in extreme circumstances and had to endure so much awfulness, I cannot comprehend what you all went through. God Bless you one and all. Secondly, the re-enactment of the recovery was absolutely superb! The actors did a brilliant job. Thank you for the upload.
47:42 this documentary takes you by the hand. The words, the footage - it’s as if you were there. It just pierces your heart. 😢 Fantastic documentary. Doesn’t use the music to make it more dramatic. Just to underline the story. I know i wasn’t there and watching cannot in any way be compared to what these men went through but I do feel as if I understand them and the significance of such a catastrophe. We hear about so many catastrophes - you just tune out. I tuned in for this one and it was worth it. My deepest respect to those first responders and I’m so glad you are finally getting recognized.
Bless all these men for what you did , recovering so many bodies. Unbelievable job that had to be done and you should feel so much pride at the challenge you faced. I am so glad you got some recognition for all you went through , bless you all .
Respect! Respect! Respect to the teams that risked their own lives and their sanity in the recovery of the crash victims!
Wow! That was difficult to watch. Those men have a special place in heaven waiting for them. On their way through the pearly gates, they will meet each of the souls they recovered. It will be a beautiful reception.
I want to say THANK YOU ALL WHO HELPED IN THIS RECOVERY OF PRECIOUS BODIES OF LOVED ONES. I’m from the United States and I commend you all for excellent work ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Moving. I cried for the rescuers at the end. Incredible story. Beautifully done.
I can't believe how well made this is
We have examples upon examples of incidents where we’ve sent out the call for brave men to step up, overcome the obstacles, dangers and their fears to serve humanity. And they not only answered the calls putting their families on a back burner, but they accomplished great feats with courage dignity and strength. Paying the price later, most of them in silence. To these men and all of the others in the past, present and future... Thank you! We couldn’t have done it without you, we wouldn’t have the incredible world we have and so many owe you more than just a heartfelt appreciation.
This remains the finest air disaster documentary to this day. The men who retrieved the bodies from the crash site of New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus may as well have been doing the recovery on the moon, for all the difficulty, stress and horror of it all, which they encountered and continue to relive to this very day in the form of PTSD. True heroes all.
Wow, such tragic and uplifting story! Thank you for uploading it.
thanks for watching!
Phenomenal documentary. These men are the very definition of the word HERO. Thank you for telling us their story, and THANK YOU to those men for their bravery and dedication to helping the families who lost loved ones in that horrible tragedy. I know we can never understand what you went through, but we are eternally grateful for your sacrifice.
I never forget the judges remark..
A litany of lies on behalf of Air New Zealand..
We lost 2 friends in this disaster..
I’m sorry for the tragic loss of your two friends.
I too lost a relative in this disaster I'm so sorry for your loss ❤️
You are all heroes. Every single one of you. Thank you for all you gave to reunite these souls with their loved ones. ❤
Respect to you all, from a member of the human race,thank you all,,, from Dublin Ireland ☘️🇮🇪💚🤍🧡🍀
This deserves more recognition. great effort!
Thank you for making this available!
The only light hearted moment in the documentary was the bit where they got off the plane, dressed up for a blizzard, and the American bloke is in shirt sleeves!! One light hearted moment that was needed in a very solemn and heartbreaking documentary. Those blokes are bloody heroes. I'm surprised that they weren't given the odd sleeping pill, or some brandy, just so they could get some proper sleep for 5-6 hours. Especially with it never getting dark, the horrific sights that they were encountering and the conditions being terrible. The fact that the disaster was caused by someone changing the direction of the flight plan, without the knowledge of the crew flying the aircraft, makes it even worse. An avoidable and unnecessary disaster. No wonder the management of Air New Zealand didn’t want those details getting into the public domain.
Since the pages were gone, how did they know about the change in coordinates? This was not covered in the film.
@@jamespppyacek342it was discovered in the flight plan that was on a print out. Plus the policemen on Mt Erebus that are the subjects of this documentary film found Capt Collins ring binder intact, with no pages removed. They handed it in to the property inventory people and the next thing they knew, the pages had been removed. I watched another documentary about this disaster and it shows how the change in the flight plan was discovered.
At about 1 hour 4 minutes mark shows this evidence
The coordinates being changed and not advised to the flight crew is why it all happened.And Air NZ tried to cover it up.Those missing pages from the pilots notebook were deliberately taken.The presiding judge got to the bottom of this and exposed 'The litany of lies' from Air NZ.
Poor guy was probably too shocked to start getting dressed.
Disgusted to learn of yet another cover-up. How do these criminals get away with it? 🤬
Total respect to the rescue team. They deserved recognition and more, much much more.
The airline (Air NZ)'s majority shareholder is the NZ Government, that's how - finding Air NZ guilty for causing the crash (which they were), would be no different than blaming the NZ Gov. This is why the PM at the time (Rob Muldoon) was WAY too involved in the investigation - and how it was so easily covered up. I'm pretty sure Air NZ was owned solely by the NZ Gov in 1979, but I may be wrong. There has never really been a separation between Air NZ and the NZ Gov - even now, the Prime Minister is the former CEO of Air NZ 🙄
Those poor policemen!! No psychological support whatsoever. What a shame!!
Im watching this documentary now. Tragedy of epic proportions. The bravery of the New Zealand police took my breath away. Getting the job done in the most horrific conditions. Harden men today. Passengers R.I.P. SA Cape Town
Thank you for uploading this. What a sad but amazing situation. These men stepped up.
The amount of courage displayed in this documentary is just incredible. Shows humanity at it's best.
yes, i do agree
The new modern New Zealand should do the right thing. These pilots deserve the honour that they owned, and those who attempt to cover up should go down in history. It's such a sad and unresting to the crew's families that they never got the right acknowledgement.
It won't happen, the NZ Prime Minister is the former CEO of Air NZ, good luck getting him to admit Air NZ's guilt :(
Really good doc!! I’d never heard of the accident. As a retired American military cop, it’s so hard to stop the images in the middle of the night. These guys are def hero’s! Thanks brothers for your service!
Well done and shot. Building the unbelievable drama that was for them to go through with it. Effective and touching. The human condition to the highest.
Write it out guys. Write out everything in your memory, every single thing and keep writing over and over again. If you write until you have no feelings left about the matter, this helps to nullify the whole experience and later you won't have any response left in you. It's very healing. This is a great video.. Thank you so much for uploading.
Amazing documentary. Thank you to those who helped with the recovery❤
This film has pulled me in so many different ways. The outright contempt of the airline to the emotional roller-coaster of the brave people who dealt with this tragic accident first-hand. My heart goes out to you all and your families. ❤
Sooo grateful this story has been properly documented for history. Outstanding work from these men!
A very touching 💙 documentary. These gentlemen did an excellent job and showed so much respect for recovering all the bodies. They've got grit! Such a sad thing to have to do. They did it for the families of the lost. Thank you 💛 and may God bless all of them.
God bless you for your work.
My friend visited this site when she was working in Ant, and she said it was horrific, even 35 years later.
Absolutely heartbreaking and heart warming at the same time.
All those rescuers are beyond human to tackle such a great task. Well done and God bless everyone involved 🙏
That was a well directed documentary. True hero’s doing a job with compassion to the recovery of the victims and return them back home. RIP
I give kudos for every man that went and performed this necessary task. Whatever nationality it was inspiring to have you the special recovery team tell your stories.
My respect for those men, cannot be put into words. My thoughts about Air New Zealand's criminal neglect and coverup; probably shouldn't be written. RIP to those lost.
I was crew on a QANTAS flight when we heard the news. AirNZ crew stayed at the same hotel when we landed. They refused to leave their rooms until they received news and details of the crash. We stayed with them. A terrible wait. We were finally told. Tragic.
I can't stop my tears. Great job you all my brothers lot's of love and respect from India.I appreciate you all.
Those gentlemen who recovered all the bodies are true heroes & will never be forgotten. Thank you for bringing the bodies back to their families 🙏 🇳🇿
My heart goes out to all of you... And to the people who died tragically on Erebus. I thought I knew the story of this crash but I see now how wrong that story was. Thank for making such a thoughtful, moving and informative documentary.
Such traumatic event. The men that recovered all those lost ..So courageous .. and persistent in awful conditions.. Amazing that they risked there own lives to bring peace to families Bless them all 🙏
“More important than finding the truth -
is finding the reason why one needs to lie.”
Which usually leads you to the truth. Lol
That's basically the same thing
Incredibly well done documentary. Nice mix of the real people and re-enactments. The high wind, blowing ice scene really gave you an idea what these guys faced when it would happen.
What angers me is that these men went through physical and mental heath and never got debriefed or psychological help. Those men did a remarkable job.
Unexpectedly well done documentary. The quiet tone and reality of it made it so much more impactful. It hurts my heart that the pilots names haven’t been cleared.
I was very sadend To know you were not giving any recognition and your return.. There should have been some kind of celebration or parade even.. What, you Men did Was beyond amazing., And, heroic. To know what you've been through. I can't even fathom.. You are Great men. I hope things have gotten better for you. God bless. Teresa. From jackson, Michigan.
Such dedication and tremendous empathy. Hero’s. Beautiful souls, these men.
can't even imagine what you guys went through , , bodies , birds trying to eat bodies , , the cold the extreems you were thrown into , , AMAZED by your resilience for what you faced and for what you all did
Such courageous men!!! How anyone could be expected to do this is beyond imagination. Heartbreaking for all of them😢
You beautiful humble men, I shed tears for your suffering. I was so glad to see you were recognised for the job you had been given. I wish you all love, peace & harmony as you live out the rest of your own lives. ❤
I never heard of this! Remarkable documentary!
Wow !…one of the most moving and sad Documentaries I’ve ever seen …bless you all ,for the dignity you gave to the victims and the relatives of this terrible disaster 🙏
Yes l cried for the victims and this rescue team.
Such a great documentary! Very respectful to the families that were involved and anyone else that was related to the crash. What a tragic event, all because the pilot was given the incorrect coordinates, so sad. They had evidence, but somehow it "disappeared"....hmmmm.....
It seems that the U.S. government is not the ONLY corrupt government on this planet...not sure if that's good OR bad!
These rescuers are true heroes. The term is overused, but my god, these men are absolutely worthy of some sort of medal & perhaps a monetary reward. It will impact their lives forever, and it did. God Bless them all 🙏
Edit - yes I see they were finally awarded medals.
That the air crew was never totally exonerated is absolutely unconscionable.
If not for police officers willing to stand up and speak out, no one would have known about the pilot's binder. Do you think the airline and/or government worked together to destroy evidence?
Do you think untrained police officers were selected so any mistakes could be blamed on them? Who sends 11 untrained police officers to such an inhospitable environment following an accident like this?
Then, offer no counseling or assistance upon their return is evil. To take 21 years to finally recognize their accomplishments in their mission is also uncalled for.
Airline executives and government officials should have been held accountable. The air crew exonerated.
Each officer should be proud of the mission they accomplished. I can't imagine the horrors they endured and the affect on their personal lives.
I agree 👍
You did an awesome job of making this documentary. You put a very human element to this history 😢
Those men on the mountain were heroes that suffered a lifetime of emotional damage that was irrevocable. Many lives were lost and many more were terribly affected. God bless them all.❤❤
The wives.
Great documentary. Great work of the rescue team. My thoughts go out to everybody (directly or indirectly) involved in the accident. YÖU ARE TRUELY HEROS - all of you.
Especially i feel for the wives of the men of the rescue team. Making a documentary about Trauma, PTSD and the impact this has on the entire family (out of the perspective of the wives) would be so incredibly interesting.
Wife of the rescue man,
you tried to recue your man,
your family, your marriage, your children,
and you - no matter wheater you succeeded or not - are a victim and a hero too.
I had never heard of this tragedy before watching this documentary,but Im glad I watched it. It was very informative and very human. I did not know that there are such exhaustive body recoveries like this, unless it was famous people or what happened on 911, etc. These men did an awesome job, considering they werent specialized in these recovery efforts and werent debriefed afterward. They maintained the humanity of the deceased bodies while grappling with their own human emotions and physical and mental limitations. These men seem so humble, God Bless them and their loved ones.
What an incredible documentary. This was so well done, and is a great example of truly outstanding documentary filmmaking.
This film had me totally engrossed by its careful use of storytelling and its considerate way of allowing the brave men who were there to tell their own story, in their own words, and at their own pace. These heroic men had to deal with something so devastating, and had no thanks or support until many years had past. Thank goodness they finally honoured their efforts and sacrifice by gracing their chests with medals. It's the least they can do for leaving these poor men scarred by their service, unsupported and alone.
They ignored these poor men afterwards.
No asking them questions, no debriefing, no counseling for them, no support.
My God.
These men, who were inexperienced and untrained in the snow and in the field of airline disaster recovery, street policemen, worked to exhaustion for 12 days, in the freezing cold.
Talk about PTSD!
And the airline has the nerve to challenge the accusation of the Magistrate who found the Pilots flight log binder, and the courts saying that he exceeded his authority?
Oh, he was good enough to put into a death defying task of digging out dead bodies trapped frozen in ice, but not good enough to be believed about the content of coordinates in the binder he saw with his own eyes?
Shame on that airlines officials...shredding documents that would clearly implicate them of making changes to the coordinates and Not informing the Pilots!
And to this day the Pilots have yet to be exonerated!💔
You guys are HERO's in SO Many ways. Thank you for bringing those families Closure, and for ALL you sacrificed and did on that mountain! I just watched this from the U.S. And am Proud of you guys! ...True HERO'S!
You must do another one as there is far more to this story than you have covered
What a feat to blindly go and climb to do a task almost unfathomable. Bless you all with such guts & stamina.
“We were invisible after Erebus” 1:00:09 😢
This is one of the very finest and most sublime documentaries I have ever seen. Every aspect of it is outstanding. The attention to detail in recreating the crash site, the period items, and clothing is unprecedented. The imagery, music (and lack thereof at times), humane capturing of the men's accounts, and acting are all top tier. An incredible job by the producers and director to present this harrowing story.
Phenomenal story and phenomenally well told in such a moving and powerful way! I pray that this wonderful documentary also brings these heroic gentlemen peace along with all the other heroic NZ Police, US Servicemen and Mountaineers/Volunteers who risked their own physical and mental wellbeing to recover those bodies. We salute you!!
well said - thank you!
My heart goes out to you all. Grateful
Whoever Directed and Produced the re-enactments did an incredible job - the Production Design, costumes are so accurate it looks totally authentic. The Tents and the crash site looks exactly like the pics - they must had had a big budget - on location on some mountain and building giant set pieces like the Aircraft tail. Much higher quality than Air Crash investigation. Great casting and acting too - wow!