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".

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.

Authorities hunting for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said yesterday they were increasingly confident that wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island was from the ill-fated jet, raising hopes of solving one of aviation's great mysteries.

The instructor was "walking around with a broken arm'' and cuts to his face, and the trainee was lying on the ground, conscious, but with possible spinal injuries.

An ageing Indonesian military plane packed with soldiers and their families crashed after takeoff in a densely populated area of Sumatra's biggest city, killing more than 140 in the latest air....

Large crowds and emergency services gathered around the flaming wreckage shortly after the crash in the city of Medan, on Sumatra island.

A chopper crash in a remote part of the South Island’s West Coast has seriously injured the young pilot and hit the helicopter community hard.

Three people have survived a helicopter crash in Westland National Park this morning.

A Red Devil parachutist had a lucky escape when his chute failed to open at an air show - leaving a teammate to catch him in mid-air and bring him to safety.

A team of researchers at Texas A&M University at Qatar believe they have solved an important puzzle, identifying the most likely MH370 crash scenario.

Six US Marines and two Nepalese soldiers have died after their helicopter crashed in a mountainous region of earthquake-devastated Nepal.

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.