A plane has crash landed at Whenuapai Airport in Auckland tonight after its landing gear would not come down.

A paraglider stranded on a steep mountainside as night closed in was saved by rescuers using night vision gear after he was forced to make an unplanned landing.

Craig Mitchell guided his stricken Cessna 182 to a crash landing in the soft sand of Tomahawk Beach to avoid beachgoers.

Just over a year on, inhabitants of the remote island of Kudahuvadhoo, have reported seeing a low-flying passenger jet on the morning MH370 flight disappeared.

A pilot and his passenger had a lucky escape after their light plane crashed on Tomahawk Beach yesterday afternoon after ''spluttering'' over the city.

The parents of a young woman killed in the 2012 Carterton hot-air balloon crash say they waited six days to see her body.

Does the Germanwings tragedy mean passengers now have to add the pilot’s state of mind to worries about mechanical failure and terrorism?

In a country where Nazi and communist persecution and eavesdropping have left deep scars, data secrecy has cast-iron legal protection in Germany.

A child, her mother and grandmother, all called Emma, were among the Spanish victims of last week's Germanwings air disaster.

The girlfriend of killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz may be pregnant with his child.

Forensic teams working on the site of the Germanwings crash may already have recovered the remains of suspected killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Voice recorder reveals Alps crash pilot urged captain to go to the toilet and leave him alone in the cockpit.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said Friday.

The disaster French Alps has raised questions about how pilots are evaluated and how airlines can be sure that such a horrifying event won't recur.

Media reports tell of a disturbed young man in relationship crisis as friends say he was happy in job.

Police investigating the Germanwings crash said they had made a 'significant discovery' at the home of pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Germanwings last night would not confirm reports one of the two pilots on its doomed flight was locked out of the cockpit before the plane crashed in the French Alps.

One of the two pilots on the doomed Germanwings flight was apparently locked out of the cockpit before the plane crashed in the French Alps.

The shocked families of the dead stood vigil in Barcelona airport all day, in tears, leaving only after night fell and police ushered them out.

Too often Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has had to inform the nation of deaths in horrific circumstances overseas.

Aviation experts are focusing on the possibility that key sensors on the Airbus A320 could have iced up, causing the aircraft to descend rapidly.

Pilots and cabin crew refused to fly over concerns the crash may have been linked to a repair to the nose-wheel landing doors, according to an unconfirmed report in Spiegel magazine

Dozens of military personnel were injured when an RAF transport plane nose-dived 4,400ft after the captain's camera became lodged alongside the aircraft's joystick.

An experienced helicopter pilot who died after hitting a power line in Marlborough last week is being described as “a big-hearted man” with a passion for flying.

One person has been killed after a helicopter crashed into the sea in French Pass.

It took nearly a week to find the plane that slammed into Mt Ruapehu in 1948, killing 13 people. Now the tragedy is to be relived as an episode in an upcoming TV series.

Indiana Jones star recovering after crashing vintage plane into golf course. Kiwi actor Temuera Morrison says Ford is a "rugged" nice guy who'll be all right.

A support group for the families of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is holding a remembrance day in Kuala Lumpur this weekend.