Saudi Arabia yesterday blamed a "technical fault" for forcing two of its pilots in an F-15 to eject over waters south of Yemen.

A pilot who once flew with killer airman Andreas Lubitz yesterday spoke of how he flew the "route of death" just two days after the Alps tragedy.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said Friday.

The disaster French Alps has raised questions about how pilots are evaluated and how airlines can be sure that such a horrifying event won't recur.

Media reports tell of a disturbed young man in relationship crisis as friends say he was happy in job.

Air New Zealand has tightened its cockpit security policy amid concern that a co-pilot deliberately ploughed his Germanwings aircraft into the French Alps.

Police investigating the Germanwings crash said they had made a 'significant discovery' at the home of pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Germanwings last night would not confirm reports one of the two pilots on its doomed flight was locked out of the cockpit before the plane crashed in the French Alps.

All that could be heard outside Joseph-Konig Gymnasium high school was birdsong and the quiet sobbing of pupils who had lost friends and classmates.

Airbus has launched a hearts and minds campaign to make New Zealanders aware of what it has to offer the Royal NZ Air Force to replace its ageing Hercules.

Pilots and cabin crew refused to fly over concerns the crash may have been linked to a repair to the nose-wheel landing doors, according to an unconfirmed report in Spiegel magazine

As the search and rescue helicopters descended from the high peaks, hope faded even of finding intact bodies from the Barcelona-Dusseldorf flight.

The shocked families of the dead stood vigil in Barcelona airport all day, in tears, leaving only after night fell and police ushered them out.

Too often Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has had to inform the nation of deaths in horrific circumstances overseas.

Aviation experts are focusing on the possibility that key sensors on the Airbus A320 could have iced up, causing the aircraft to descend rapidly.

Airbus Group expects to see growing demand for military aircraft in Asia amid simmering tensions in the South China Sea and other areas.

Going away on holiday? Strategic thinking can go a long way to preventing long-haul discomfort.

China Southern Airlines' growth has been spectacular since its entry into the New Zealand market in 2011, Grant Bradely writes.

Ryanair refused to fly a sick child to an organ transplant operation because the boy's family arrived at their departure airport "too close to the departure time", it has been revealed.

It has been a "bad and very sad year already" for aviation in the south, the Civil Aviation Authority says.

A Qatar Airways employee has been shamed by the airline's boss after he emailed a photo of her slumped on the floor to the entire workforce.

Class action against Air New Zealand and other airlines accused of price-fixing on flights across the Pacific could stretch on for two more years.

Cathay Pacific plans to fly the latest widebody plane from Hong Kong to Auckland later next year.