Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) was a scheduled Air New Zealand Antarctic sightseeing flight that operated between 1977 and 1979, from Auckland Airport to Antarctica and return. On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth such flight, operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. The accident is commonly known as the (Mount) Erebus disaster.