Erebus crash families received only $100,000 compensation and sworn to secrecy for 30 yrs...
The families of those who died when Air New Zealand Flight 901 plunged into Mt Erebus, in Antarctica, received an average pay-out of only $100,000 - and they have been sworn to secrecy all these years.
The same year, an Auckland woman who was badly burned in a Pan American crash was awarded much more by a US court.
Compensation for the 200 New Zealand passengers on the doomed 1979 Antarctic flight totalled about $21 million, according to calculations based on new disclosures.
About a third of the compensation ($6.9m) was paid by the Government after Civil Aviation was named in a class action brought by a passenger consortium. That amount showed up in the 1982 Budget.
In addition to the $21m, a further $4m was paid out to the families of 24 Japanese passengers on the flight.
An Air New Zealand spokeswoman would not confirm the amounts, saying the Erebus settlements were confidential between the airline and the families.
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