The wife of a man who fell 14m to his death on an adventure course has spoken about her frantic rush to get to him - and the devastating moment she was told he was dead.

Police say they are "comfortable" with the actions of officers involved in a one-minute pursuit that resulted in four teenage girls fighting for their lives in hospital.

An RNZAF officer has been charged over the fatal Iroquois crash at Pukerua Bay on Anzac Day 2010.

A wife watched in horror her husband fell 14 metres to his death from a high-ropes adventure course near Auckland yesterday.

Screams of "I can't feel my legs ... I'm going to die" were heard by a witness shortly after a crash in Kohimarama involving four teen girls who fled a police stop.

Rescue helicopters were kept busy over the weekend with five people in four separate incidents being helicoptered to hospital.

The flight training industry stands on the threshhold, says Lyn Neeson: either tighten regulations now or lose more of the country's finest young pilots.

Captain Ravendra Pal Singh, convicted of assaulting two student pilots in a cockpit 1500ft above the ground, compares himself to Jesus Christ.

Rail workers were yesterday fixing crossings after a wheelchair-bound woman was nearly killed after a wheel on her chair became jammed.

Two naked fishermen had to make a desperate swim to Matakana Island after their kayak sank in Tauranga Harbour.

More than 120 young people were caught driving illegally during a week-long police campaign targeting high schools.

A man is dead and three people - including two children - are in hospital in a stable condition following a bus crash in Manurewa yesterday.

One person has been killed and three people injured in a bus crash in Auckland this afternoon.

The wife of a Wellington man charged with careless driving, resulting in the death of their unborn baby, is devastated about the charges and does not want court action to continue, a court was told today.

A mother has told of the moment she saw her 8-year-old son lying under his motorbike with a large branch sticking out of his thigh.

A coroner says it will be a "massive task" to piece together what happened in a fatal mid-air crash which killed two teenagers and a helicopter pilot in 2008.

A woman was killed on a Waikato farm yesterday when the vehicle she was driving rolled down a bank.

A wheelchair-bound woman who was hit by a freight train in Auckland remains in a critical condition following a desperate rescue attempt.

It looked look a simple task of helping a woman whose wheelchair was stuck on train tracks. But Matthieu Mereau was soon locked in a desperate struggle for her life and his own.

A man was watching the end of an international cricket match in his lounge when a police pursuit came to a dramatic end outside his doorstep.

A worker run over and killed by a forklift in an early morning industrial accident in Christchurch today has been named.

A Whangarei man was taken to hospital after crashing into a power pole shortly after police abandoned a pursuit of his car.

A man is in intensive care at Dunedin Hospital after he was hit by a car near Dipton last night.

What's the first thing that goes through a cyclist's head when he is hit from behind by a car travelling at nearly 100km/h?

A seven-year-old boy and his father suffered leg injuries when their boat exploded in a Picton harbour today.

A man has survived a 15m fall from the top of a waterfall into a shallow pool near Te Anau where he needed to be rescued by a helicopter.

A Korean man has died tramping on the Milford Track.