Tangiwai disaster

[philipmartin]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Caused by a lahar knocking out a previously damaged, (in 1925,) pier of the Whangaehu River bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaKo8zL7fa4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdS23S-jH0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Photo: Ka949.

[David Benton]

The Maori name "Tangiwai" means funeral waters, Tangi been Funeral , Wai been water.
This remains New Zealand's second biggest transport disaster , only surpassed by the Mt Erebus plane crash.
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[philipmartin]

The aircraft ground proximity warning sounded six seconds before the plane hit Mount Erebus. I suppose that is normal under these circumstances.

Photos: Mount Erebus
Skua gull, they were eating the body parts on Mount Erebus
The DC10 that crashed.

Erebus: The Aftermath, one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImFx0GrjHE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Erebus: The Aftermath, two. http://youtu.be/avnBAtLvVqY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://youtu.be/yP36X0BsMQ0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;