The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume tomorrow.

Six weeks after his "miracle" survival when the helicopter he was in ploughed into a snow-covered mountainside, ski guide Mark Sedon feels "grateful and lucky" to be alive.

Members of the New Zealand Defence Force rescued passengers from a plane crash in Papua New Guinea.

The man leading the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has admitted there are 1000 possible flight paths it could've taken before crashing.

The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed off the east coast of Jamaica had twice asked traffic control - before they lost contact - if he could reduce his altitude and had indicated that there was a problem with the aircraft.

A prominent real estate developer and his wife were aboard an unresponsive private plane which crashed off the east coast of Jamaica on Friday.

Aircraft have flown too close to one another over Auckland 19 times in two years; the figure was disclosed after two incidents in one day.

A fatal microlight crash near Westport has been blamed on the pilot breaking Civil Aviation rules.

Jerome Box was tragically killed when the helicopter he was in crashed into Mt Alta.

Jerome Box's death during a heliski excursion on Mt Alta on Saturday has devastated his close-knit family and church community, some of whom escaped the "mystery" crash.

The congregation at St Paul’s Church is preparing for "a tough couple of weeks" as the fatal crash of a churchgoer on a skiing holiday was announced.

Debris was strewn for almost 1km as a church group smashed into the side of a mountain aboard a helicopter yesterday, killing one and injuring six.

The Otaki man who was killed when his Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down over the Ukraine has been formally identified.

'It was a wonderful flight, we were having a great time.' An American couple have spoken about the day their scenic Lord of the Rings flight turned deadly.

The wife of a missing pilot says it's a miracle that wreckage of her husband's bi-plane which disappeared more than four months ago has apparently been recovered.

Fears about air travel are common and entirely understandable. Human beings have not evolved to fly, writes psychologist Peter Kinderman.

Imagine a plane is taking off from Heathrow Airport. It crashes on the runway. Do you continue to film the burning aircraft or pan away?

Complaints were made about balloon pilot Lance Hopping being too impaired to fly, and cheating on his pilot's test before the Carterton disaster, but no action was taken.

Today's memorial service for Malaysia Airlines victim Rob Ayley will be held at the same church where he regularly played the drums.

Malaysian Airlines is set for a brand overhaul after two major tragedies in the last six months, it emerged today.

France says there are no survivors from the Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali and several families have been been wiped out in the tragedy.

The family of Rob Ayley, who was killed on flight MH17, will hold a private memorial tomorrow while they wait for his body to be returned.

This year is the deadliest for air disasters since 2010, but Kiwi aviation experts say passengers are still statistically unlikely to die in an aircraft crash.

Malaysia Airlines' website has gone dark. In keeping with airline practice after a crash, its special "dark site" is free of logos and the imagery of its standard home page.

Survivor of the Anzac Day helicopter crash Sergeant Stevin Creeggan has endured years of pain and humiliating treatment from the Air Force, but his family are speaking out.

A Dutch couple coming to New Zealand to visit their Taupo-based daughter on a "trip of a lifetime" were among those killed on MH17.