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Air NZ in France for Perpignan crash talks

All seven people aboard an Airbus A320 test flight died when it crashed in 2008. Air NZ said it could not confirm a report that an announcement would be made tonight regarding the crash.

Congo: Bodies recovered from plane crash

Pilot missed plane

Painstaking process to retrieve bodies

Engineers will need to carve a road through rugged, heavily forested mountains to retrieve the bodies of the six Australian mining executives killed in a plane crash.

Miners broke protocol to fly single aircraft

The search for a plane carrying one of Australia's richest men and the entire board of one of the country's mining companies resumed last night.

Aussie soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan

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

Grave fears for missing Aussie mining bosses

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.

Sydney plane missed kids by seconds

Kiwi chopper pilot killed in Australia

An experienced helicopter pilot from has been killed after hitting power lines in Australia after surviving a similar accident in 2008.

Anzac crash survivor supports chopper appeal

Plane crash in Afghanistan

Plane makes safe emergency landing

A plane has successfully landed despite problems with its landing gear that forced it to abort several landing attempts.

Small plane in emergency landing

Plane hit van before crash

The miracle onboard flight 771

Ruben van Assouw joins a list of more than a dozen known examples of sole survivors from air disasters.

Child only survivor of airliner crash

The Netherlands has gone into mourning over the deaths of at least 61 Dutch citizens among the 104 people on a plane that crashed in Libya.