Two breaches of Civil Aviation rules lead to $6700 fine for company.

Suburban homes in Utah have become a fiery wreck after a plane crashed into a backyard.

The person who sparked the callout was sure the plane had ditched into the sea. It hadn't.

Five out of nine tandem skydiving accidents were dislocated shoulders.

There was no evidence pilot Rick Lucas' medications were a factor in the crash.

Anthony Frederick Hector Budd and Kusum Pasha were killed in an accident on Mt Tauhara.

Rāhui placed on the mountain for five days out of respect for the families of the pair.

The location for the memorial is not confirmed but a quarter of the budget has been spent.

Weather conditions were fine, with clear skies and light winds at the time of the crash.

If a helicopter and a drone collided the results could be catastrophic, pilot warns.

The plane has made an emergency landing into mudflats near Motueka.

The plane's pilot reported getting into difficulties around 1.40pm.

Just minor injuries after biplane crashes at Napier Airport this afternoon.

"It's thick in clouds, and then I heard a pop and it immediately stopped."

The accident happened near Mt Cheeseman ski area at Castle Hill on Tuesday afternoon.

The woman crashed near Mt Cheeseman ski area.

Twin-engine plane crashes in Louisiana killing five people and fully engulfing a car on the ground. Video / KTAC / Scott Clause / Lafayette Daily Advertiser via AP

Board minutes show the airline did not send its planes over Erebus, says judge.

Judge Gary Harrison, who was a lawyer on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Erebus disaster, says Air New Zealand did not reveal evidence which showed Justice Peter Mahon was right to accuse the airline of "an orchestrated litany of lies". Video / Media Construction Group

Retired senior judge Ted Thomas thinks Mahon's famous eloquence ran away from him.

Judge Gary Harrison felt during the Mahon inquiry that something was not quite right.

Police name man who died in a light plane crash at Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury.

Peter Grundy maintains his friend Jim Collins was responsible for the Erebus disaster.

Paul Davison says it became clear that pilot error did not fully explain the Erebus crash.

Air accident investigator Milton Wylie says Justice Peter Mahon ignored his evidence.

A former US helicopter crew chief recalls the price he and others paid for Erebus.

A US navigator reveals his panicked alert to the doomed Air NZ flight to Erebus.

Expectant parents keep coming up with elaborate ways to announce the sex of their baby.