Auckland, Nov 28 NZPA - A prayer will be said and a period of silence observed at Scott Base around 12.50pm today to mark the moment 30 years ago when an Air New Zealand plane crashed in Antarctica.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - A memorial trip to the crash site of the 1979 Mt Erebus air disaster has been postponed tonight after strong winds prevented helicopters from landing.

Six people whose family members died in the crash landed in Antarctica this afternoon.

Wellington, Nov 27 NZPA - Six people whose family members died in the 1979 Mt Erebus air disaster landed in Antarctica this afternoon.

This Saturday will mark the 30th anniversary of Air New Zealand Flight TE901's crash into Mount Erebus on Antarctica.

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The Police released their hit single Walking on the Moon thirty years ago. The immortal lyrics contained in my blog title are from that song. They imagined a time when astronauts would saunter around the Moon again.

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