Pilot error is emerging as the most likely cause of the crash of the Air France Rio-Paris Airbus in 2009.

Air accident investigators now have both 'black boxes' from the doomed Air France flight 447.

Friends and family have paid tribute to Olympian Geoff Smale after an air force Iroquois found...

Former Olympic yachtsman Geoff Smale's body has been recovered from Mount Duppa.

A helicopter carrying two people has crashed in Fiordland.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is investigating the cause of a helicopter crash which left a pilot with head injuries after it came down north of Levin this morning.

Relatives of the 257 people killed in the Mt Erebus air disaster returned last night from an emotional memorial service in Antarctica.

Quick-witted rescuers scrawled a line in the beach to point others to the site of a helicopter crash.

In a scene straight out of a desert island castaway story, a line scrawled in the beach pointed rescuers to a helicopter crash in the sea near Whangarei today, helping save a pilot's life.

A 23-year-old man has been taken to hospital after being pulled from the sea after his helicopter crashed off the Northland coast. He was the pilot and only occupant of the chopper and escaped with minor injuries.

An air search has started off the Northland coast after reports an aircraft may have crashed into the sea.

Inside the aircraft, passenger Sonu Jaiswal was live streaming the plane's descent seconds before the crash. Video / Supplied / AP