Belated Accident Investigation But Not For Crews
Operation Overdue was a Television Programme that lived up to its own billing. It is always interesting to see how the programme makers view their own work and in this case it promised to tell the Emotional and Compelling true story of four Police Officers who went to Antarctica to Recover the victims of Air New Zealand Crash that killed all 260 on board. The crash was the Fourth worst Aviation Disaster at the time. The eyes of the world were upon this small country and we just got on with it and did what needed doing. Interspersed with news clips from the time, Erebus Operation Overdue did an excellent job, even though it was grim viewing. Naturally Actors played the men from the days of the Crash in the Antarctic, but it lost little in the reconstruction. The horrors the men experienced made for some delicate viewing. The first descriptions of decapitated bodies and limbs meant I was flying solo so to speak, on this one as Mrs Brown quickly declared it too grisly and l...