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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Blink-182 rocker was one of only two survivors when a Learjet 60 carrying him and five others crashed in South Carolina in 2008.

A pilot suffered a cut to his arm after a microlight plane had a crash at Mercer Airfield today.

A man injured in a paragliding accident was airlifted from a paddock in Waihi on Saturday.

A blade of grass may have been responsible for a plane crash off Raglan Beach on Boxing Day.

It was supposed to be one of his final flights, a 10-hour trip from Las Vegas to London before celebrating his retirement from a 42-year career with a holiday in Barbados.

EXCLUSIVE: The Taranaki woman who miraculously survived a plane crash speaks for the first time about her recovery.

Anne Warner and her husband Alan escaped from a light plane crash that left them with a number of injuries.

France has launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Reunion Island.

Confirmation that a wing part came from the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft establishes that Flight 370 crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean.