Frank Finlay was born in Farnworth, Bolton which is around 5 miles from me. Coincidentally my second name is Farnworth, Not sure if I am missing something here but this reminds me of the infamous Grand Canyon disaster in the 50's where flights regularly made a 'tourist' pass over the famous landmark leading to a double-crash. I would have thought that twenty-years later this would have been frowned-on. So what am I missing, did Air New Zealand allow 'sight-seeing' flights at lower altitudes as part of their fares? Also, I considered when the pilot mentioned it being a little bit heavy, was he talking about possible snowfall, that would have explained why, on this occasion they were unable to see the mountain, especially at low altitude. Frank Finlay who acts superbly in this magnificant drama- documentary should have been awarded at least a BAFTA for his perfomance, indeed he was backed by superb stalwarts.

On 28 November 1979, 237 passengers and 20 crew were killed when Air New Zealand Flight TE901 was hit by a SAM Missile launched from an automatic launch site in Antarctica in error and then crashed into Mt Erebus, Antarctica. MI5 initiated the cover up to hide the fact of this error and most importantly to MI5 was to cover up the reason the SAM missile installation's are in Antarctica in the first place and what it is they are protecting anyone from knowing about. One would only need to view pictures/video of the wreckage of Flight TE901 to see that Flight TE901 hit Mt Erebus as a burning wreck. A passengers photos developed after the recovery show hydraulic oil splashed onto the windows while Flight TE901 was still in flight.

Beautiful organ song. It’s a lovely day today. I love that song , especially played so nice by Margaret Hall. It gives good chills up my body. 😢❤I heard that song played on the Dodger Stadium organist , Helen Dell and Nancy Bea Heafly.Wonderful

It doesn't seem to matter if we're telling the truth... Ask Justice Mahon about the mercy of Proof... And how an "Orchestrated Littany of Lies" blew our innocence out of the skies... right before our very eyes... And if you listen hard you'll hear the cries... Of Kiwis drowning in pools of lies... RIP Justice Peter Mahon... And all those who passed tragically on Air NZ flight 901.❤❤❤

Carpenter è un fenomeno tecnico e di talento che fa quasi paura per la facilità e la scioltezza. Detto questo la sua interpretazione non mi piace assolutamente, così come la quasi totalità delle sue esecuzioni. Ridateci Karl Richter

On 28 November 1979, 237 passengers and 20 crew were killed when Air New Zealand Flight TE901 was hit by a SAM Missile launched from an automatic launch site in Antarctica in error and then crashed into Mt Erebus, Antarctica. MI5 initiated the cover up to hide the fact of this error and most importantly to MI5 was to cover up the reason the SAM missile installation's are in Antarctica in the first place and what it is they are protecting anyone from knowing about. One would only need to view pictures/video of the wreckage of Flight TE901 to see that Flight TE901 hit Mt Erebus as a burning wreck. A passengers photos developed after the recovery show hydraulic oil splashed onto the windows while Flight TE901 was still in flight.

Such a wonderfully, decent, honest and honourable man, treated so badly.Judge Mahon, deserves to be greatly respected ❤

because what can go wrong when you mix government and business?

Flew on the DC10 from nz to Singapore, best flight ever I was 17 years old.

Yankees always on the wrong way.

Oh for a small fraction of the talent, musicianship and musicality of this artist!🎹

My only minor criticism about an otherwise almost flawless depiction: is the non inclusion of the extremely loud stenographer’s machine at the actual inquiry, that all but drowns out proceedings . To me, it was shocking that that would have been allowed. It was amazing that the witnesses could actually maintain composure, think and speak connected thoughts with such continuous racket. This reenactment was superb, down to actors’ almost identical resemblances to the actual participants. Thanks.

You are barking up the wrong tree deliberately to cover up for this foolish pilot circling down to 500m right to a 3800m high volcano he couldn't see! They were only allowed descent so low if the conditions were 100% clear. All these court cases with these pretentious quasi British actors and intrigue were just a sideshow

Hello there John! I loved this documentary so much! Thank you for sharing it with us! I really appreciate it! I wanted to tell you that I have BOTH Chief Inspector Chippindale's and Royal Commissioner Mahon's reports on Erebus. I got these from the New Zealand Archives, and they arrived at my house on the 40th anniversary of this tragedy of monumental proportions for New Zealand alongside the Privy Council's rejection of Mahon's appeal and a letter from then Prime Minister Jacinda Adern expressing her heartfelt gratitude for my interest in researching Erebus. In my personal opinion, I loved reading Mahon's report over Chippindale's because Mahon, an aviation outsider, took his time and effort to analyze all of the evidence in front of him and compose his findings that seemed best for the New Zealand public. Thank you once again

Frank Finlay was quite simply an exceptional actor..much missed.

Are the instruments the same as the 727 and 737 100 and 200 series vsi attitude indicator altimi ter and the airspeed like can you swap from one plane to a another if you need to while waiting for the part oo come in

and this documentary doesn't even mention a great deal of the malfeasance that occurred: the break in of Collin's home office and possible removal of relevant documents while his widow was attending his funeral; the "disappearance" of pages seemingly ripped out from the pilot's notebook that was recovered from the wreckage and much more. An orchestrated litany of lies was indeed the order of the day.

I do believe that if Cameron were J.S. Bach's student, we would have a new type of music today, something unheard of in history.

Hypothesis - After the crash, the New Zealand Government who owned a major share in Air New Zealand ordered the complete destruction of any documents pertaining to the misidentification of the coordinates for the waypoint because not only would it embarrass the airline it would do potentially catastrophic damage to the government reputation. Therefore Morrie Davis ordered the destruction of the pages from Captain Jim Collins’ flight journal.

Per giunta non so se vi siete accorti che la suona in Fa diesis maggiore e non in Fa maggiore come originale,così è molto più difficile.

FYI - THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY is an organization (and website) that pretends to believe in the idea of a FLAT EARTH. They are a gatekeeper group of people whose purpose is to make ridiculous claims in order to discredit people who believe in the FLAT EARTH theory. How do I know this. . . just search for FLAT EARTH on the internet and you will find THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY is near the top of the search results. Most serious people who made Flat Earth videos in the past have been removed from the search results for the past 2 or 3 years. Only Globe proponents ridiculing Flat Earth are in the search results.

If memory serves, Cameron sat down on that organ, and complained that it didn't have all the resources he needed. A 200-rank organ, and he's complaining about it. Every organist I know would almost kill to play an organ that size!

IT'S CALLED ADDED DISTURBANCE OF FLIGHTS ✈️ TURBULENCE

I agree with the judge's conclusion, but I do think there was pilot error involved in flying below 2,000 ft in whiteout conditions, regardless of lack of training, If you're flying blind or confused, you should pull up regardless of where you think that you are.

A beautifully played selection of music from ME AND MY GIRL on an equally beautiful WurliTzer Organ. THANK YOU for the music Margaret. Very enjoyable!

Ppff...MESSY!

I still don’t understand why the coordinates were changed. 🤔

He is playing it in B major!

Thanks for this excellent and interesting presentation, from an era when things really *were* 'made in Great Britain'.

As an old movie - its good quality , a visual and musical editorial!

Hewitt has the blood of 257 people on his hands

The lesson here is to sit in the rear of the plane! Why? I'v never heard of a airbus backing into a mountain.😮

First class performance by Finlay and the other actors. A brilliantly crafted work.

bravó

I watched a documentary on this accident just this morning. The airline company is guilty. 1 of the policeman that was sent to bring back the bodies found that book with its pages still inside. It's awful that these governments can cover up just about anything they feel is bad publicity for them. Disgraceful 😢

BRAVO!

Interestingly how at 17:17 they were still talking about expanding the network and yet in little over 10 years hence it was being ripped up.

The only relevant fact is that Minimum Safe Altitude is 16,000 feet, they were at 1,500. This may be the dumbest idea in commercial aviation. This was always going to happen it was just a matter of time.

Yes I felt the energy. Not heard him play for so long. And his repertoire is/was phenomenal

Not a note, nor a dynamic, nor stop choice out of place! Beautiful craftsmanship!

I find it crazy that I know a friend who played on that organ

From I discerned from this video and from my own knowledge, the NZ government - in particular ‘Piggy’ Muldoon, and Air NZ left a lot to desired to be desired in how they responded to this tragedy! On the balance of probabilities they were complicit in not doing enough and worse, did not follow an appropriate process of investigating an ‘aircraft accident’. You can fool all of the people some of the time and fool some of the people all of the time… fortunately, there were people who were willing to speak up and out to come to the most logical description of what truly happened. RIP Ito the victims, and to those people who were prepared and willing to speak up and speak out and no longer with us.

We were in the audience that night, and I can tell you that the craftsmen who designed and built that magnificent organ would have been very, very proud.

Air New Zealand’s actions were disgraceful they should have been charged with murder. The fact they all went into cover up how can someone live with themselves

Gosh I remember that engine sound. Unforgettable to anyone who’s ever flown a classic. Happy memories.

Pilot error, beyond doubt

Sadly, this crash was the pilots fault.once in the air, the buck stops with the PIC

Such an amazing documentary. My cousin, Lady Helen Robb, was on that fateful flight.

Margaret inspires me so much with her beautiful playing that I want to get on the bench after her and play this beautiful organ too.

From Colne, in Lancashire, Adrian shaw says, carlo displays the finest qualities and talents of humanity.