Nearly 30 years after an Air New Zealand jet slammed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 on board, the airline is apologising to families of the dead.
The Air New Zealand DC-10 was on a sightseeing flight when it hit the mountain November 28, 1979.
The airline said today's apology would take care of some of the "many of the gaps and failings that occurred in the days, months and years after November 28, 1979".
Chief executive Rob Fyfe will make the apology at the unveiling of a sculpture commemorating the disaster at the airline's head office in Auckland this morning.
It was understood he would not apologise directly for the accident or its controversial aftermath, but about the lessons learned and the way the airline interacted with the families.
