A former Air Nelson flight attendant says she has no memory of having sex with a senior pilot, who was sacked over the incident and is appealing.

Two men were lucky to survive an air crash that left their plane balanced precariously on the side of a cliff during a delicate three-hour rescue.

Two men are "pretty banged up" after their plane crashed in the Ruahine Ranges this afternoon.

Two men have survived a light plane crash in the Ruahine Ranges and have been taken to Palmerston North Hospital.

Peter Kollar has left the United Arab Emirates in the wake of a fatal hot air balloon crash which saw his pilot sentenced to a year in prison.

A mother who lost a son in the Air NZ Airbus crash off France is saddened to see blame being meted out to the people involved.

Air NZ has hit out at an aviation safety specialist's interpretation of what went on before an Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean off France in 2008.

Air New Zealand crew encouraged the pilots of an Airbus 320 to carry out tests minutes before the plane crashed off the coast of France, a specialist said.

Experts for French prosecutors probing the crash of an Air NZ jet in 2008 agree with air safety investigations which blame human error.

The CAA has asked airlines to investigate a loophole in airport security, after major flaws were revealed yesterday.

Four soldiers, three of them Australian, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Six Australian mining executives, including one of the country's richest men, breached protocol by boarding a plane that has gone missing in West Africa.

Will a new European climate change travel tax damage NZ tourism?