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Old Dec 21, 2024 | 3:53 pm
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Originally Posted by airsurfer (Post # 1)
[ W]hat happens when there is no airport accepting an A380 (SYD-SCL is 789) within thousands of miles ? Ditching into the ocean or landing crashing on icebergs in the Arctic, like the NZ case of the DC10 disaster in Mount Erebus in the 1980s ? [Emphasis added.]
Originally Posted by trooper (Post # 5)
The NZ DC-10 flew straight into Mt Erebus due to incorrectly inputted navigational information... it was irrelevant that it was a remote area really...given there were no survivors of the crash.
Indeed. The details of the navigational error (not by the pilots) causing this Antarctic disaster in the late 1970s are well summarized here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster
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