In integrated studies this week we have been researching a New Zealand history topic of our choice. I have been looking into the Cave creek disaster and the Mount Erebus disaster. For my question I decided to to look at the human error and the effect that it had on these disasters.
These are some of the things I have found out~
Cave Creek
On the 28th of April 1995 17 university students and a DOC officer were on a viewing platform overlooking cave creek collapsed. Killing 14 people and injuring 4 . They plunged 40 metres into a chasm.
After the disaster at cave creek DOC who were responsible for the viewing platform received a lot of criticism and so did the government. People said that government should be devoting more resources towards doc to ensure New Zealanders safety.
The Human error here is definitely the lack of a proper safety check and Docs inadequate job with the platform coast 14 people their lives.
Mt Erebus
On the 28th of November an air New Zealand plane left Mangere airport in Auckland, for a sight seeing trip to Antarctica. While on that trip the plane crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus killing all 237 of the passages and crew on board. There were no survivors and it was the forth worst accident in aviation history.
he Human error here has not been confirmed due to one thing but 5 different errors due to different people but air New Zealand said it was only due to Pilot error. After watching a few different documentary I found that the chief of the navigation team had made an error in the navigation writing one wrong coordinate which turned out to be fatal.
