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Slow road to recovery for flying instructor

The flying instructor badly injured in Monday's plane crash near Palmerston North has shown promising signs of recovery.

Balloon firm to appeal grounding

Flying instructor's condition improves

Crash victim keen to fly again

Cause of plane crash likely months away

Crash survivors on road to recovery

The flying instructor who survived an air crash has had surgery for bleeding to his brain but doctors hope to bring him out of a coma today.

Engine failure ruled out in plane crash

Instructor fights for life after air crash miracle

Two men were lucky to survive an air crash that left their plane balanced precariously on the side of a cliff during a delicate three-hour rescue.

Human error to blame for Air NZ crash - report

Experts for French prosecutors probing the crash of an Air NZ jet in 2008 agree with air safety investigations which blame human error.

Air NZ in France for Perpignan crash talks

All seven people aboard an Airbus A320 test flight died when it crashed in 2008. Air NZ said it could not confirm a report that an announcement would be made tonight regarding the crash.

Congo: Bodies recovered from plane crash

Pilot missed plane

Painstaking process to retrieve bodies

Engineers will need to carve a road through rugged, heavily forested mountains to retrieve the bodies of the six Australian mining executives killed in a plane crash.

Miners broke protocol to fly single aircraft

The search for a plane carrying one of Australia's richest men and the entire board of one of the country's mining companies resumed last night.

Aussie soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan

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

Grave fears for missing Aussie mining bosses

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.