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Wanaka: Eye of the tiger, thrill of the flight
Julie Symons and her fiancé take to the air in magnificent flying machines.

Justin Bieber gets a scolding on flight
Justin Bieber was told off by cabin crew for "acting like a child" during a flight.

Second black box recovered from Air France crash
Air accident investigators now have both 'black boxes' from the doomed Air France flight 447.

When kids are all alone at 10,000m
Kids often like solo air travel, but it's scary for the parents, finds Danielle Murray.

Flyby for pals ends in tragedy
CAA report points to unsafe action but developer dad blames high winds.

Glass made volcano ash a flight risk
Air traffic controllers were 'right' to close European airspace last year over fears of the ash plume.

Flights delayed after system failure
A failure involving a Telecom communications network vital to air traffic control has delayed flights throughout the upper North Island this afternoon, with some flights remaining grounded as a safety precaution.

James Griffin: Flying high with a disco beat
There's no kind way of putting this, so I'm going to come right out and say it: clearly a number of people at Air New Zealand have gone insane.

Olympians mourn best mate killed in air crash
Friends and family have paid tribute to Olympian Geoff Smale after an air force Iroquois found...

Dead pilot's skills 'saved passenger's life'
The daughter of a pilot killed in a helicopter crash near Lake Coleridge credits his flying with saving the life of her husband.

Air NZ checking fleet for cracks
Air NZ says it is checking its fleet of Boeing 737-300s following the explosive decompression of a Southwest Airlines plane in the US last weekend.