We are getting an apolgy next week - in Auckland at the Air New Zealand Head office. If not for the major newpapers placing information very few of us would know anything about this.
For the majority of families i am sure we are unable to travel to Auckland on a Friday to attend such a cermony to remember OUR loved ones. I am even unsure how any of us feel about an apolgy and if it had not been for the air crash last year in France i am sure we would still after 30 years not be seeing one.
Air New Zealand have already said the accident in France has caused them to look back on the Erebus Crash and see thier failings we all as victims have suffered. We all have our personal stories related to how our lives became losing vital members of our families in an isolated place. 44 families were not so lucky we never recieved a body our family never got to attend to service in Auckland for the mass burial of 14 coffins dedicated to the 44 not recovered bodies
No trip to Antartica or no apolgy can go any way to helping, 30 years is along time to have scared some families i personally will go to my grave with the scars i have no idea where my family member is - half in a coffin in Auckland half in a creavse on Mount Erebus
30 years on no body and no apogly will ever give me the closure that Air New Zealand is hoping for - now days sorry is a word so easily used for all the wrong reasons
"Rest my loved one you will never be at peace"
my loved family member - you remain in my heart then, now and forever love you x o x o x o