Verdict on Erebus

Previous owner's name inside. Some residue from tape.

Just over seven months after New Zealand's worst disaster - the crash of Air New Zealand's DC10 aircraft on the slopes of Mount Erebus in Antarctica with the loss of 257 lives - a Royal Commission of Inquiry began its hearings. The man appointed to report on the cause of the tragedy was the Hon. P. T. Mahon, then Mr. Justice Mahon, a Judge of the High Court of New Zealand. Strangely enough the Commission hearings had been preceded by the publication of the report of the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents. That report placed the blame on the aircrew. In this engrossing book Mahon describes, in calm and objective detail, the course of the inquiry, and, for the first time, tells how he reached the conclusions which were to startle the public, the airline management, and the Government. Not only did the Mahon report clear the aircrew from responsibility, it also accused the airline of a `pre-determined plan of deception.' This book takes the reader behind the scenes of the investigation and gives fascinating pen pictures of the major participants; it reveals the painstaking study which brought the Commissioner to his conclusions; and it reveals in full detail the extraordinary story of the Erebus inquiry...