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.

A plane carrying about 40 people has crashed in northern Pakistan, with witnesses at the site of the flaming wreckage saying there were unlikely to be any survivors.

Danica Weeks says it is 'farcical' relatives have been forced to search for wreckage from the lost Malaysia Airlines flight.

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.

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.

The parents of a dead airman were last night delighted by a promise from NZ First that it would establish a Commission of Inquiry into the crash.

The most significant piece of potential wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has been found - and it could change everything.

More than 20 passengers were injured in severe turbulence that saw them slam into overhead lockers as their plane "dropped like an out of control elevator."

New analysis of MH370's signals reveals the missing plane took a massive dive at up to 20,000 feet a minute, as it plunged into the sea.

A light plane has gone off the runway and crashed in the Bay of Plenty.

Searchers say they're a step closer to recovering the main body of the missing EgyptAir plane after making an incredible breakthrough.

Mystery about EgyptAir MS804 deepened today with news that the captain did radio air traffic controllers before the crash.

Coastguard and police were on hand when a hot air balloon ran into trouble and started drifting out to sea.

The family of a 52-year-old man injured in a fatal helicopter crash yesterday say he is "pretty knocked around" but improving.

One person has died and one person has critical injuries after a helicopter crash just east of Lindis Pass in Central Otago today.

It's been two years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 passengers and crew on board.

The final paranoid outpourings of the pilot who deliberately crashed a plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people, have been revealed.

Passenger who was sucked out of a plane after explosion smuggled bomb on board in wheelchair, claim investigators.

Emergency services are at the scene of a light plane crash at Nelson Airport today.