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![Houston hop part of Air NZ growth spurt](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Houston hop part of Air NZ growth spurt
Air New Zealand is launching a fresh near half-billion dollar push into the United States with services to Houston from Auckland this year.
![Air NZ - Houston will be longest haul](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Air NZ - Houston will be longest haul
Air New Zealand's Auckland-Houston flights will be the longest on the airline's network.
![Air NZ set to service Tigerair](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Air NZ set to service Tigerair
Air New Zealand and a global aircraft parts supplier AJW Group have done a deal to service components of Tigerair Australia planes.
![Hero pilot dodges lightning](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Hero pilot dodges lightning
A pilot saved his passengers with just seven seconds to spare after his plane was struck by lightning and went into a steep nose dive.
![Qantas marks 50 years of jets in NZ](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Qantas marks 50 years of jets in NZ
New Zealand travellers joined the jet age 50 years ago today when Qantas began Boeing 707 flights to Christchurch.
![Safety fears over Wgtn airport expansion](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Safety fears over Wgtn airport expansion
Pilots are worried expansion plans at Wellington Airport could risk safety.
![Lubitz 'spiked captain's coffee'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Lubitz 'spiked captain's coffee'
German newspaper suggests he may have mixed diuretic drug into captain's coffee to get him out of the cockpit.
![Maori heritage helps China Southern exec](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Maori heritage helps China Southern exec
Blair Haeata says his Maori heritage has helped him fit into marketing roles at a number of Chinese businesses, including his latest job at China Southern Airlines.
![Four spared by pilot's quick thinking](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Four spared by pilot's quick thinking
Craig Mitchell guided his stricken Cessna 182 to a crash landing in the soft sand of Tomahawk Beach to avoid beachgoers.
![MH370: Islanders saw 'low flying plane'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
MH370: Islanders saw 'low flying plane'
Just over a year on, inhabitants of the remote island of Kudahuvadhoo, have reported seeing a low-flying passenger jet on the morning MH370 flight disappeared.
![Lucky escape for beach plane pair](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Lucky escape for beach plane pair
A pilot and his passenger had a lucky escape after their light plane crashed on Tomahawk Beach yesterday afternoon after ''spluttering'' over the city.
![Clipped wings: Depressed and flying?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Clipped wings: Depressed and flying?
Does the Germanwings tragedy mean passengers now have to add the pilot’s state of mind to worries about mechanical failure and terrorism?
![Calls for overhaul of medical secrecy](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Calls for overhaul of medical secrecy
In a country where Nazi and communist persecution and eavesdropping have left deep scars, data secrecy has cast-iron legal protection in Germany.
![WW2 German fighter crashes](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
WW2 German fighter crashes
Pilot of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 escapes unharmed from accident at the Omaka Classic Fighters Airshow at Blenheim.
![Lufthansa knew Lubitz had depression](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Lufthansa knew Lubitz had depression
Lufthansa has admitted for the first time that it knew Andreas Lubitz suffered from serious depression.
![Pilot warned of cockpit risk](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Pilot warned of cockpit risk
A Dutch pilot issued a chilling warning of the risks of being locked out of the cockpit weeks before the Germanwings crash.
![Passenger screams caught on video](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Passenger screams caught on video
Footage taken on board doomed Germanwings flight recorded moment screaming passengers knew they were going to die, it has been claimed.
![Air NZ? No, Air Auckland](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Air NZ? No, Air Auckland
Air New Zealand is facing a backlash in Christchurch after announcing it was canning summer flights to Japan.
![Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over Wanaka](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over Wanaka
The US space giant has been linked to an apparent unauthorised flight over Wanaka yesterday morning by Sir Peter Jackson's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.
![Alps crash: 3 generations killed](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Alps crash: 3 generations killed
A child, her mother and grandmother, all called Emma, were among the Spanish victims of last week's Germanwings air disaster.
![Lubitz treated for suicidal thoughts](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Lubitz treated for suicidal thoughts
The co-pilot who killed 149 people when he plunged Germanwings flight 9525 into the French Alps had been treated for suicidal tendencies, it had emerged.
![Aussie airlines must have two cockpit crew](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Aussie airlines must have two cockpit crew
Australian airlines must have two crew members in the cockpit at all times, under a deal struck with the industry after the Germanwings plane crash.