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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.