Erebus – have you ever looked it up in the dictionary? ..”A dark region between earth and hades (hell).” Nothing could have been closer to the truth than when on 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashed into Erebus at the Antarctic, killing 257 people on board. This is about the disaster, the conspiracy, the court battles: how the news unfolded for the family of the pilot Jim Collins, how it affected them, their challenges, and a government who didn’t want to know the truth.