A Labour MP has revealed he'd been skydiving three times with Rodney Miller, who died in Saturday's plane crash in Fox Glacier.

On a pool table at a Fox Glacier pub, a variety of drinks were arranged alongside the words "RIP Boys", as locals remembered their friends killed in Saturday's plane crash.

Skydive NZ's John Kerr says he's "absolutely devastated and numbed" by the Fox Glacier crash that claimed the lives of more than a third of his staff.

Transport accident investigators are confident they will find "most, if not all", of the reasons for the Fox Glacier plane crash, despite fire causing massive damage to the aircraft.

The deaths of five local men and four overseas tourists makes it one of New Zealand's deadliest plane crashes.

A fiery plane crash that killed nine people in Fox Glacier today happened just metres from the town's chief fire officer's house.

The sister of the Kiwi sole survivor of Tuesday's plane crash in PNG says she felt "utter disbelief" when she heard he was alive.

The New Zealand man who was the only survivor of a plane crash in Papua New Guinea in which four died has been named.

A mid-air explosion forced a Qantas' 747 jetliner carrying 230 people to make an emergency landing.

The sole survivor of a plane crash in Papua New Guinea that took the lives of three Australian and one New Zealander has been evacuated to Australia.

The NZ High Commissioner is on her way to a remote plane crash site in Papua New Guinea where one New Zealander and three Australians died. The NZ co-pilot is the sole survivor.

A wide cross-section of the Feilding community turned out for a candlelit service tonight in response to recent tragic deaths, and to celebrate the town's strength of spirit.

A helicopter pilot was sending and receiving text messages in the minutes prior to being killed in a crash, a report says.

The Govt will fly up to 80 relatives of the victims of the Mt Erebus crash to Antarctica, Murray McCully has announced

A video game may have helped a pilot put his damaged aircraft down safely after a mid-air collision that killed two others.

Get the latest on the crash which saw a passenger plane plunge into the isolated hills in Pakistan's capital.

An international flying student did an "exceptional job" landing unhurt with a dead engine and missing a wheel after a fatal mid-air collision.

The student pilot who died after a mid-air collision with another plane in Feilding yesterday has been named.