Safety debate rages over Robinson helicopters after a series of unexplained crashes in NZ.

Helicopter legend designs black-box recorder for helicopters after death of her son.

Because a specific cause has not been found, families are restricted in any legal action.

Shocking footage has emerged showing the aftermath of a plane crash in Peru.

A report has revealed that the Essendon crash pilot radioed Mayday seven times.

Crashed helicopter already on accident commission's watchlist.

A helicopter has been sent to the scene in the Ohau Ski Field.

Terrifying footage taken by a passenger shows the moment the plane crash landed at Amsterdam airport.

A pilot was lucky to walk away from a plane crash in South Auckland unharmed today.

A helicopter has gone down in a hilly area in the Ruapehu District this morning - the pilot has survived, but was seriously injured in the crash.

A woman's single dress boot found in a remote valley in the Southern Alps has reignited one of New Zealand's greatest aviation mysteries.

A skydiver has been flown to hospital after a heavy landing in Parakai.

A "dangerous" manoeuvre led to two Queenstown skydivers being seriously injured on Saturday was probably unintentional, an industry safety expert says.

The pilot was father of three, Peter Lynch, 52. The crash also claimed the life of his partner Endah Cakrawati, 30.

A black box has been found in the wreckage of a Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday.

Now that Gisborne is out of the unexpected chaos and back to the usual Christmas mayhem, locals are reflecting on how it all started. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Investigators will begin combing through the wreckage of a plane crash that killed two people and cut power to 20,000 homes in the Gisborne region.

After Jake Millar's dad died in the Fox Glacier plane crash, the 15-year-old wrote to Prime Minister John Key asking for his advice.

The family of Brazilian soccer player Neto, one of only six survivors of a plane crash in Colombia, say he had had a dream his airline crashed.

Bolivia's aviation authority has suspended the licence of the airline behind the horrific plane crash as blame shifted to the pilot and co-owner of the airline.

A plane crash in Colombia has killed 71 people, including most of a Brazillian football team. However, six people survived - here is how it happened.

An Australian comedian has been forced to apologise after he tweeted an off-colour joke about a plane crash that killed 71 people

Though air accidents are very rare, there have been tragic cases of preventable crashes caused by pilots - here's a list of the worst.

The wreckage of a helicopter in which two men died this week is removed from the Northland bush.

Environment Canterbury and Department of Conservation move follows this week's double fatality in Northland.

On New Year's Day in 1985, a Boeing 727 crashed into the side of a South American mountain with 29 people on board - but no one knows why.

A light aircraft has gone down near Matamata

New Base jumpers prone to leap dangerously beyond their experience

A terrifying video of a Boeing aircraft aborting its landing was captured in Prague as the plane went up against some very strong cross winds. Videographer, Radko Nasinec, captured the cringe-worthy footage of the Boeing 737-430 narrowly avoiding a crash as its wheels grazed the runway.

A Lord of the Rings sightseeing flight crashed, killing the pilot, after he flew low to clear livestock from the airstrip.