The pilot at the controls of an Indian jet that crashed this year, killing 158 passengers, had slept for more than half the flight.

Air NZ pilots helped to avert a midair disaster that air traffic controllers failed to spot, an inquiry has found.

A plane that crashed near Fox Glacier, killing nine, is believed to have been over its maximum allowable weight and off-balance.

More questions over engines are likely to cause massive delays for Qantas passengers.

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.

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 man killed in a microlight aircraft crash at Tauranga Airport has been named. Counselling is being offered to witnesses of the accident.