Four soldiers, three of them Australian, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Six Australian mining executives, including one of the country's richest men, breached protocol by boarding a plane that has gone missing in West Africa.

A light plane has gone down in Sydney's southwest, killing two people aboard and narrowly missing children on their way to school.

An experienced helicopter pilot from has been killed after hitting power lines in Australia after surviving a similar accident in 2008.

A plane has successfully landed despite problems with its landing gear that forced it to abort several landing attempts.

Ruben van Assouw joins a list of more than a dozen known examples of sole survivors from air disasters.

The Netherlands has gone into mourning over the deaths of at least 61 Dutch citizens among the 104 people on a plane that crashed in Libya.

John Key spent half an hour in Wellington Hospital with the only survivor of the Anzac Day Iroquois crash on the eve of the funeral for his three colleagues.

The Air Force crewmen killed in an Anzac Day crash were farewelled at a full military funeral in Ohakea this afternoon.

The survivor of a crash that killed three colleagues is having difficulty comprehending his fate, his uncle said.

The father of one of three Air Force crewmen killed in the Anzac Day Iroquois crash said his son "died doing the thing he loved."

About 160 Defence Force personnel will miss the military funeral for their colleagues killed in the Anzac Day helicopter crash.

Investigators will try to find out if an Air Force helicopter crew was performing an emergency turn when it crashed into a hillside.

The sole survivor of the worst Air Force tragedy in decades probably does not know three colleagues have died.