Troubling pictures have revealed the last moments of a doomed flight that crashed into a volcano, killing everyone on board.
There were 257 people onboard Air New Zealand's flight 901 sight-seeing round-trip from Auckland to Antartica when it crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island on November 28, 1979. Pilot Captain Jim Collins had looped through clouds and dropped the plane to around 2,000 feet so passengers could get a better view of the land below.
It is thought he was following the same flight path as previous successful flights, however something went awry. The plane was heading straight for the volcano ahead and had only seconds to raise the alarm.
The aircraft plowed into the volcano's side, with passengers photographing and filming the views mere seconds beforehand. Many of these photographs have been salvaged from the plane's wreckage, and some have resurfaced on Reddit more than 40 years on from the tragic accident – considered New Zealand's largest peacetime disaster.
A fourth image is shared in the comments by a Redditor who claimed the image was "literally snapped a moment before the life of the person taking it was tragically ended and a multimillion dollar machine was exploded into tens of thousands of pieces by a bleak, windswept mountain of snow and rock."