"Brace, brace, brace." If you're on an aircraft and you hear these words over the PA system from the flight deck something has clearly

The family of the helicopter pilot killed while fighting the Port Hills' fires have given him a final gift.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.