A pressure malfunction on board a domestic Jetstar flight forced the plane to turn around and return to Wellington shortly after take-off this morning.

An Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Palmerston North was abandoned just after take-off yesterday after smoke appeared in the cockpit.

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.

A new twin-engined air force helicopter will need all its rotors repaired or replaced, at a cost of millions of dollars, after being hit by lightning.

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.

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.

The sole survivor of the Anzac Day 2010 military helicopter crash today launched his court bid to seek criminal prosecutions for his air force superiors.

Three Canadian men who were in a plane that crashed into one of Antarctica's highest mountains have officially been pronounced dead by a NZ coroner.

Part of an airliner carrying about 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.

The Civil Aviation Authority has called for a report from the pilot of a helicopter that took off without him, at Tarras, on April 10.

Helicopter pilot Peter Maloney saw a warning light and within seconds knew the aircraft was going down.

A helicopter which went down in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour was the first of its kind and was due to feature in a helicopter expo in Russia in a few days.