Historical records matching Earl Aubrey Beaumont
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About Earl Aubrey Beaumont
I only met Earl briefly. But I’ve never forgotten him. He was booked on the November 28 flight, but asked to go on standby for the November 21 flight. We put him on standby, but he didn’t make it on. It was very rare for a booked passenger on the Antarctic flights not to show up. He asked me where he should go for the next week and so I helped him arrange a hire car and work out a North Island itinerary. When he returned to the airport, he came to find me to tell me what a fabulous week travelling around the North Island he’d experienced and how he was very excited about the Antarctic flight he was about to board. It was the last thing he had planned before going back to Canada for Christmas. I knew some of the TE901 crew that day, especially captain Jim Collins, who would always have time to engage with us ground staff. But whenever I hear about the Erebus disaster, I always think of that excited young man from Canada. Source: Brian Roberts (former Air New Zealand ground passenger service agent) via https://insights.nzherald.co.nz/apps/2019/erebus/
On the morning of 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand Flight TE901 left Mangere airport, Auckland, for an 11-hour return sightseeing flight to Antarctica. At 12.49 p.m. (NZST), the aircraft crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. It was the worst civil disaster in New Zealand's history. Source: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/erebus-disaster
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Earl Aubrey Beaumont's Timeline
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May 9, 1917
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| 1979 |
November 28, 1979
Age 62
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Antarctica
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November 28, 1979
Age 62
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Mount Erebus Memorial Cross, Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica
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