An AeroCaribbean airliner goes down near Havana, killing all 68 people on board.

Passengers on a Qantas jet heard a boom and saw fire as one of the plane's engines exploded in mid-air.

Two occupants of a plane which crashed near Ohakune this morning have survived unscathed.

A widow wants pilots to stay away from a helicopter involved in 30 crashes in six years in which nine people have died, including two this month.

Two people were hurt when a light plane crashed into a sewage pond at the end of a runway at Thames Aerodrome this morning.

The wreck of the helicopter that crashed, killing two people on Thursday, has been recovered from Bluff Harbour.

A helicopter has crashed on the Banks Peninsula, less than 24 hours after two hunters walked away from a crash in Fiordland.

An inquiry into a fatal mid-air collision has revealed a huge increase in dangerous close calls in the skies - and sparked pleas for change from grieving families.

The manufacturers of the Bombardier say yesterday's Blenheim incident was the third one of its kind worldwide in less than a week.

A plane with 46 passengers on board has crash landed at Woodburn airport near Blenheim tonight.

TAIC is investigating the standard of pilot training in NZ after a sharp rise in fatalities and near misses involving training aircraft.

A woman whose father died in the Air NZ Mt Erebus disaster has questioned the airline's use 'whoop whoop' - the last signal crew heard before the DC-10 went down - in its advertising.

A glider pilot escaped injury after a crash landing in Paraparaumu this morning.

Flight-deck error, inadequate training and a maintenance slip caused the crash of an Air NZ jet, France's air safety board has determined.

Days after her partner died in last Saturday's tragedy, Dido Eden found a poem from him asking her to marry him.