Footage of the police anti-terrorist team sliding down ropes on to a ferry in a helicopter training exercise shows why passengers saw the incident as a near-disaster.

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.

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.

A helicopter pilot has made a "miraculous" escape from a crash landing at Mokau in Taranaki.