A rigging supervisor who narrowly escaped death in a helicopter crash is fighting to overturn official findings that hold him partly responsible.

A Civil Aviation Authority report into a helicopter crash which killed two Far North men a year ago will be completed early next year.

Safety systems across the entire air force are in for an overhaul after an independent review into the Anzac Day crash found greater change was needed.

The 78 recommendations made after an inquiry into the Anzac Day Iroquois crash are not enough to prevent another tragedy, an independent review says.

A Rotorua student pilot who was killed in a crash yesterday had finished a flight lesson shortly before his plane hit the ground.

A skydiver has been killed in a mid-air collision with another parachutist at Wilton in Sydney's southwest.

Three airmen killed in an Anzac Day helicopter crash were on a one-hour flight because it was considered too expensive to accommodate them in a hotel.

The father of a British woman who vanished while on a helicopter trip in Fijordland in January 2004 has spoken for the first time about her remains being discovered.

Pilot error and bad weather caused an August 2010 crash on a Papua New Guinea island that killed three Australians and a New Zealander.

The 38-year-old Italian man who died in a skydiving accident while filming a tandem jump in Wanaka yesterday has been named.

An Italian man is dead after his parachute failed to open on a skydiving flight and he crashed to his death in front of a horrified Wanaka man.

The Queenstown pilot killed when his helicopter "dropped out of the sky" last night was the chief flying instructor at Wakatipu Aero Club.

A female pilot has been killed in a helicopter crash near Wanaka this evening.

A gyrocopter carrying two men, lost power shortly after take-off and plunged into Tauranga Harbour. The men did not have any serious injuries in result of the crash.

Internal probe tears apart rule-breaking and risk-taking culture of service.

The department in charge of workplace safety did not investigate the Anzac Day air force crash because it misunderstood the law it enforces, a government legal review has found.

The Air Force was warned about risks being taken before a deadly Iroquois crash - now an inquiry will look at whether best practice was followed.