New Zealand’s Worst DisastersA full train plunges into a raging river at Tangiwai; the Wahine is tossed onto rocks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour; an Air New Zealand DC 10 plunges into Mt Erebus; an earthquake destroys Christchurch disasters like these are known to all New Zealanders: they are part of our history. But New Zealand has experienced many less well known disasters, some of them shocking and brutal. Graham Hutchins and Russell Young describe some of the most