I’m sure the passengers of the Air New Zealand flight 901 thought the same when they set off on just such a sightseeing tour in 1979, unfortunately flying at low altitude led to a collision with Mount Eribus during a ‘white-out’, and there were no surivors. The problem occured because the pilots at ANZ often dropped below permitted flight levels to give their passengers a better view, and on this occasion it started snowing heavily which disorientated the crew, and due to the mountain being covered in snow it was not visible.

I did a google trawl for a link to give you the history…..

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/NZDisasters/Erebus.asp

It was Air New Zealand who blamed Captain Jim Collins for the Accident, however the reason they were off course is the wrong flight plan was fed into the FMC by the people at Auckland airport!!