When young pilot Adam Reid saw the glider go into a spiral, he knew disaster was imminent. It was to be the second fatal glider crash in four hours.

Air New Zealand has been rated the world's second safest airline to fly with by a leading air travel website.

Two aviators had a lucky escape after their aircraft suffered a fuel leak and caught fire this afternoon.

Searchers have found the body of the helicopter pilot whose aircraft crashed yesterday in steep terrain near the start of the Milford Track.

An Invercargill Police search and rescue (SAR) team has arrived in Te Anau to help with the recovery operation.

An experienced helicopter pilot is feared to have died in a crash yesterday near the Lake Te Anau starting point of the Milford Track.

The family of a helicopter pilot who died in a crash in South Westland nearly three years ago is upset over the time it has taken for the Transport Accident Investigation Commission to complete its investigation.

The helicopter pilot killed in a crash in North Canterbury today has been named as David Stanley Jones, 48, of Woodend.

It was supposed to be a routine test flight. But at 4.46pm on 28 Nov 2008, an Air NZ Airbus plunged into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all seven men on board.

The sole survivor of the Anzac Day helicopter crash has been allowed to lay health and safety charges against the Defence Force.

A small plane has had to abort its takeoff at the last minute at Auckland Airport this afternoon, and has ended up in the grass.

Three parachutists made a desperate bid to exit a blazing aircraft seconds before it plunged into a field in southern Belgium, killing 11 people.

A plane carrying five Americans and a Panamanian on an anti-drug mission has crashed n a remote part of northern Colombia, killing four of the occupants.

The instructor in yesterday's helicopter training crash has been praised for his quick actions in averting a double fatality.

Two pilots had a lucky escape yesterday when their helicopter crashed during a training flight near the Waimakariri River in Canterbury.

Two New Zealanders are dead after their plane crashed in South Africa while flying in formation with two other aircraft filled with tourists on safari.

The aircraft was reportedly caught in a strong gust of wind and crashed into mountains in Mpumalanga, near Durban.

A friend of speedwing flyer Sean Kerridge has told an inquest he believes the thrill-seeker may've felt pressure to undertake the flight that killed him.

Asiana Airlines says its reputation was damaged by a report on a San Francisco TV station that used bogus names for four pilots on its plane that crashed last week.

You know it's big when they get special graphics made, crashing and zipping across the TV with a flashy soundtrack to match.

Emergency services are responding to a mayday call from an aircraft in rural Canterbury.

A Christchurch headmaster who was caught up in the San Francisco air crash drama initially thought it was a terrorist attack.

The trainer assigned to guide a pilot who crash-landed an Asiana Airlines plane in San Francisco was on his first day in the job.

An expert in product harm says the public feels the need to quickly apportion responsibility for plane accidents.

At least one person died and 10 more were critically injured when a Boeing 777 slammed tail-first into a runway at San Francisco airport this morning, reports say.

Divers have recovered the bodies of two Maryland police officers, a day after their two-seater aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

A 50-year-old tall tale about how a table saved a man from death in the worst air disaster on New Zealand soil has been quashed by his widow.