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Live updates: Pakistan plane crash

Get the latest on the crash which saw a passenger plane plunge into the isolated hills in Pakistan's capital.

Pakistan plane crash in Islamabad

Pilots well trained to fly from Queenstown, says union

Authorities scrutinise Pacific Blue incidents

Praise for way surviving pilot landed plane unhurt

An international flying student did an "exceptional job" landing unhurt with a dead engine and missing a wheel after a fatal mid-air collision.

Air crash student victim named

The student pilot who died after a mid-air collision with another plane in Feilding yesterday has been named.

Pilots stood down while take-off investigated

Pacific Blue says the pilots of a plane that may have breached flight rules when taking off from Queenstown airport have been stood down.

Fatal mid-air crash 'like bomb'

The student pilot killed in yesterday's flight school crash was in her 60s and from the Kapiti Coast area, police said this morning.

Australian inventor of 'black box' recorder dies

Visitor arrivals hit 2.5 million

Annual visitor arrivals to New Zealand hit the 2.5 million mark last month for the first time, says Statistics NZ. But immigration numbers have been unexpectedly weak.

Heart complaint behind fatal air crash

Farnborough air show takes off

Boeing and Airbus have racked up billions of dollars worth of aircraft sales at the Farnborough Airshow.

Speeding up the airport process

New technology at Auckland Airport means the CEO of Customs gets automatic texts if queues are too long.

Global cap and trade idea urged

Christchurch fog disrupts flights

Kiwi pilot fights off passenger during crash landing

NZ pilot Nikola Labes fought off a passenger as she made a miraculous crash landing on an Australian beach.