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.

A skydiver had just been given permission to use modified equipment for her dwarfism plunged to her death when her parachute failed to open properly.

Air crash investigators are planning to dump replica Boeing 777 wing flaps fitted with satellite trackers into the Indian Ocean.

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.

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.

A helicopter pilot is in a critical condition in Antarctica after falling down an icy crevasse and laying injured for at least two hours.

A light plane crashed near Sheffield in Canterbury after the pilot misjudged the landing.

AirLive reports the search for missing airliner MH370 will end in June next year.

The bodies of all three remaining victims of the helicopter crash have now been airlifted from glacier.

The apparent lack of significant damage to the rotor blades has raised a suggestion the cause of the Fox Glacier helicopter crash could have been mechanical failure.

It could be 18 months before the investigation into what caused Saturday's Fox Glacier helicopter crash is concluded.

Tributes are pouring in for the six tourists and one helicopter pilot killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash on Saturday.

The family of the pilot killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash know they may never get his body back, but they hope authorities can bring him home.

Aviation security is likely to be tightened following a review that's been given impetus by the apparent bombing of a Russian plane in Egypt.

Maids, porters and other hotel staff in Sharm el-Sheikh are being questioned to discover if one of them hid a bomb in the luggage of a passenger on board the doomed Russian holiday flight.

Investigators of the Russian plane crash are pursuing the theory that a bomb could have been placed inside a passenger's luggage by hotel staff.

The decision by several airlines to avoid the airspace over the Sinai Peninsula following the break-up of a Russian passenger jet was only the latest addition to a list of official and self-selected....

Suspicions that foul play caused the passenger jet crash in Egypt were growing as the Russian airline's owners said the plane could only have been brought down by "external factors".

Heartbreaking photos have emerged putting faces to the names of those killed in the Russian airliner crash.

Three major airlines announced yesterday that they would no longer fly over the Sinai Peninsula after a Russian passenger plane crashed in the area.

Deadliest Russian plane crash in post-Soviet era kills 224, but Moscow and Egypt deny Isis claims terrorists brought down jet.