The commission, presided over by Justice Peter Mahon QC, concluded that the accident was caused by a correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster, coupled with a failure to inform the flight crew of the change, with the result that the aircraft, instead of being directed by computer down McMurdo Sound (as the crew had been led to believe), was instead re-routed into the path of Mount Erebus.
A comisión, presidida polo xuíz Peter Mahon, concluíu que o accidente o causou unha corrección feita nas coordenadas da ruta de voo a noite anterior ao desastre, xunto cun fallo ao informar á tripulación do voo do cambio, co resultado de que o avión, en vez de ser dirixido polo ordenador polo estreito de McMurdo (como asumía a tripulación), foi rencamiñado pola ruta do monte Erebus.