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

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

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

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 co-pilot who killed 149 people when he plunged Germanwings flight 9525 into the French Alps had been treated for suicidal tendencies, it had emerged.

Australian airlines must have two crew members in the cockpit at all times, under a deal struck with the industry after the Germanwings plane crash.

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.

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.

All that could be heard outside Joseph-Konig Gymnasium high school was birdsong and the quiet sobbing of pupils who had lost friends and classmates.

As the search and rescue helicopters descended from the high peaks, hope faded even of finding intact bodies from the Barcelona-Dusseldorf flight.

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.

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.

A scene examination at the site of a helicopter crash near Queenstown, which killed two men and led to the country’s largest aircraft grounding, will wrap up tomorrow.

Aviation businesses face financial losses after the grounding of the helicopter model involved in a fatal crash last week.

Aviation businesses face an uncertain wait and the prospect of financial losses after the grounding of the type of helicopter involved in a fatal crash last week.

Representatives of a helicopter company which employed two men who died in a crash on Thursday are due to be interviewed by specialist investigators today.