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.

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.

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.

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.

Attempts to recover the remaining three bodies of people killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash have resumed this morning.

Recovery crews at Fox Glacier are frustrated by bad weather continuing to put a hold on efforts to retrieve the remaining victims.

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.