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Erebus - Operation Overdue
Television (Full Length and Trailer) – 2014
It’s affected me to this day … you can’t get away from it.– Police officer Greg Gilpin
It was just a scene of utter destruction.– Police officer Greg Gilpin, on arriving at the Erebus crash site
Each of those families that lost somebody on Erebus grieved for that individual family member — I grieved about the whole lot.– Police officer Stuart Leighton, on recovering bodies after the Erebus disaster
I thought we deserved better than what we got. No one wanted to know and no one went out of their way to support us in that respect, and that was devastating.– Police officer Stuart Leighton, on life after Erebus (It took nearly 30 years for these police officers to be recognised for their work)
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