Flight 901 was the third deadliest accident involving a DC-10 , following Turkish Airlines Flight 981 and American Airlines Flight 191 . The event marked the beginning of the end for Air New Zealand 's DC-10 fleet , although there had been talk before the accident of replacing the aircraft ; DC-10s were replaced by Boeing 747s from mid-1981 , and the last Air New Zealand DC-10 flew in December 1982 . The occurrence also spelled the end of commercially operated Antarctic sightseeing flights – Air New Zealand cancelled all its Antarctic flights after Flight 901 , and Qantas suspended its Antarctic flights in February 1980 , only returning on a limited basis again in 1994
Turkish Airlines Flight 981
Turkish Airlines Flight 981
Air New Zealand Flight 901