Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 say they could finish scouring the priority zone by May, more than a year after it vanished.

Investigators seeking the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean are widening their search area to cover the chance the aircraft fell from the sky at a shallower angle than expected.

A Hawke's Bay pilot who illegally carried passengers has admitted causing a catastrophic plane crash - and says his flying days are over.

The families of two New Zealanders who died in a gliding crash in a remote area of Namibia yesterday have paid tribute to two "wonderful men and experienced pilots".

Two men miraculously survived a helicopter crash north of Auckland yesterday - the second time one of the pilots has crashed in 19 months.

Two people have been injured following a helicopter crash in Rodney, north of Auckland.

A flight formation ended the funeral in Auckland today of pilot Ann Barbarich, who died after suffering a suspected brain aneurysm at the controls of a plane after landing in Perth.

A top Malaysia Airlines executive who is in NZ this week is urging relatives of those lost aboard MH370 to be patient as the carrier works to pay compensation.

Two people were seriously injured after a light plane crashed yesterday afternoon.

A terrifying roller coaster ride in the sky turned Fuzzy Maiava's life upside down. Six years later, the ride goes on.

Two men had lucky escapes after separate accidents in the skies.

Malaysia Airlines says a compensation offer of US$50,000 to the families of MH370 victims is only "part of" the final payment it intends to make.

The widow of Kiwi MH370 victim Paul Weeks has rejected a compensation offer of $64,000 from Malaysia Airlines.

A top airline boss has voiced doubts about the search for doomed airliner MH370 and said the plane may not even be in the southern Indian Ocean.

A piece of paper caught in a tree led searchers to the wreckage of a missing helicopter and the body of pilot Damian Webster in Kahurangi National Park.

Damian Webster was flying from Karamea on the West Coast to Nelson, when his Robinson 44 helicopter disappeared on Tuesday.

The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume this morning but bad weather has delayed search teams.

The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume tomorrow.

Six weeks after his "miracle" survival when the helicopter he was in ploughed into a snow-covered mountainside, ski guide Mark Sedon feels "grateful and lucky" to be alive.

Members of the New Zealand Defence Force rescued passengers from a plane crash in Papua New Guinea.

The man leading the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has admitted there are 1000 possible flight paths it could've taken before crashing.

The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed off the east coast of Jamaica had twice asked traffic control - before they lost contact - if he could reduce his altitude and had indicated that there was a problem with the aircraft.

A prominent real estate developer and his wife were aboard an unresponsive private plane which crashed off the east coast of Jamaica on Friday.

Aircraft have flown too close to one another over Auckland 19 times in two years; the figure was disclosed after two incidents in one day.