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.

Craig Mitchell guided his stricken Cessna 182 to a crash landing in the soft sand of Tomahawk Beach to avoid beachgoers.

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.

A pilot and his passenger had a lucky escape after their light plane crashed on Tomahawk Beach yesterday afternoon after ''spluttering'' over the city.

Does the Germanwings tragedy mean passengers now have to add the pilot’s state of mind to worries about mechanical failure and terrorism?

In a country where Nazi and communist persecution and eavesdropping have left deep scars, data secrecy has cast-iron legal protection in Germany.

Pilot of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 escapes unharmed from accident at the Omaka Classic Fighters Airshow at Blenheim.

Journalist tweets praise for a Germanwings pilot who did something extraordinary to comfort frightened passengers.

Andreas Lubitz had searched online for suicide methods and cockpit doors before he crashed a Germanwings flight into a mountain, prosecutors say.

Lufthansa has admitted for the first time that it knew Andreas Lubitz suffered from serious depression.

Footage taken on board doomed Germanwings flight recorded moment screaming passengers knew they were going to die, it has been claimed.

Air New Zealand is facing a backlash in Christchurch after announcing it was canning summer flights to Japan.

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.

A child, her mother and grandmother, all called Emma, were among the Spanish victims of last week's Germanwings air disaster.

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.

The girlfriend of killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz may be pregnant with his child.

Forensic teams working on the site of the Germanwings crash may already have recovered the remains of suspected killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.

Twenty-five people hospitalised after an Air Canada flight made a crash landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

Voice recorder reveals Alps crash pilot urged captain to go to the toilet and leave him alone in the cockpit.

Colonel Patrick Touron looked grim-faced, as well he might.

One year before he made the cut for Lufthansa's elite flying school, Andreas Lubitz worked at a Burger King behind a car wash, flipping Whoppers and frying fries and talking to co-workers about his dream.

Dramatic recordings from the Germanwings flight’s black box have revealed the captain’s desperate attempts to break into the cockpit to regain control of the plane.

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.