New Zealand travellers joined the jet age 50 years ago today when Qantas began Boeing 707 flights to Christchurch.

Pilots are worried expansion plans at Wellington Airport could risk safety.

German newspaper suggests he may have mixed diuretic drug into captain's coffee to get him out of the cockpit.

Today (April 10) marks the 50th anniversary of Qantas' jet service to New Zealand. This supplied video shows an old TV advertisement urging travellers to fly to New Zealand.

Air NZ has implemented new rules requiring two people, including at least one pilot, to be in the cockpit at all times.

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.

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.

A Dutch pilot issued a chilling warning of the risks of being locked out of the cockpit weeks before the Germanwings crash.

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.

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.

Australian airlines must have two crew members in the cockpit at all times, under a deal struck with the industry after the Germanwings plane crash.

New Zealand has secured 10 new air service deals allowing links with countries ranging from Bahrain in the Middle East to Curacao in the Caribbean.

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.