Plane Crash

The off-duty commercial pilot riding in an extra cockpit seat said "I'm not OK" just before trying to cut the engines midflight.

The male pilot and female passenger crashed shortly before 12.30pm, near Edwards Island Nature Reserve in Lancelin.

A Victorian MP is among eight people injured after a skydiving plane crashed during take off at Barwon Heads Airport this morning.

A pilot has died in a light plane crash in Queensland's Southern Downs region.

Pilot Ben Mumford and Charlie Mumford were inside a light aircraft when it hit power lines and crashed north of Adelaide yesterday.

North Dakota state senator Doug Larsen has died along with his wife and two young sons after a plane he was piloting crashed in Utah on Sunday evening.

A plane carrying fourteen people has crashed in the Northern Amazon in Brazil. Officials say there were no survivors.

A pilot has died after the plane he was flying as part of a gender reveal party in Mexico crashed on Sunday.

A memorial service has taken place for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, his spokespeople confirmed shortly after the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin was not planning to attend the funeral.

The plane went down two months after Prigozhin mounted a day-long mutiny Putin decried as "treason".

The Kremlin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov flatly rejected the allegations it was behind a plane crash that is presumed to have killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Yevgeny Prigozhin and multiple others were declared dead by Russian authorities yesterday.

Crustaceans found on debris can help pinpoint where the doomed passenger aircraft hit the sea, scientists say.

The plane reportedly crashed into a car and a motorcycle, killing everyone who'd been in the air.

A MiG 23 Russian fighter jet wowing crowds at a popular US airshow has crashed near an apartment complex.

The victim has more than 30 years flying experience.

His children survived a plane crash and 40 days in the Amazon jungle, but this Colombian dad now faces allegations of abusing his deceased wife

It's understood the aircraft crashed into the animal shortly after take-off.

It's believed one of the planes was taking off when the crash occurred.

She's on her way back to Australia while her friend is still on the island, playing to theatres doing double time as shelters for thousands of evacuees.

The crash was aired in a state television broadcast that showed the low-flying aircraft disappearing into a canyon before a fireball erupted.

The final moments of a flight in far north Queensland were "unexceptional and quite normal" before the aircraft ploughed into a sand dune claiming the lives of all five people on board. 

Four young children found last month after surviving 40 days in the Amazon rainforest following an air crash have been released from hospital.

The crash happened around 2.30pm while the pilot of the Cessna 172 was "practicing landings and takeoffs".

The Cessna plummeted to the ground during the second of two landing attempts.

The weary Indigenous men gathered at their base camp, nestled among towering trees and dense vegetation that form a disorienting sea of green.

The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared harrowing details of their ordeal

Only traces of the indigenous children have been found since their aircraft was forced down on May 1.

Authorities say the Cessna 172 Skyhawk flipped over onto its roof near the runway 26 this afternoon.

The men who walked away from a crashed Boeing 737 in Western Australia were initially trapped in the burning plane before managing to open a window to escape.

One person was killed when a single-engine plane slammed into a grassy hillside above homes in a Los Angeles neighborhood amid dense fog, authorities said.

Michelle Yeates, 45, and her son Jacob, 15, were flying to Jandakot Airport after watching the eclipse in Carnarvon when their plane's engine failed, sending them into waters off the coast of WA.

A woman and her teenage son have survived a light plane crashing into the ocean in front of horrified witnesses in Western Australia.

A pilot has walked away from a light plane crash with no serious injuries south of Brisbane.

The deadly incident was the second in the area since late last year.

A young couple with a baby on the way have died in a light plane crash in North Queensland.

27-year-old Jake Elven was on his second flying lesson in Sydney's South-west when the plane he was learning to fly in stalled, sending he and his instructor straight towards the ground.

The nation's president said emergency services have been deployed to the crash site.

The aircraft came down at Bankstown Airport in South West Sydney and flipped on impact, spilling fuel.

One of the planes crashed into a car on a residential street lined, while the other landed in a field.

A single-engine plane crashed in suburban Long Island in New York as it approached a regional airport.

A man has been charged with multiple offences including manslaughter after a deadly light plane crash in northern Queensland one Christmas Eve.

Simon Chipperfield and Karthi Santhanam, both from Adelaide, were on board the Cessna 340 when it crashed into a volcano on Saturday.

Philippine authorities on Monday launched a search mission atop a restive volcano after spotting the suspected wreckage of a missing plane carrying two Australians along with a Filipino pilot and crew member.

Two firefighting pilots have miraculously walked away with only minor injuries after surviving Australia's first Boeing 737 crash.

The Boeing 737 Airliner had been fighting fires in the area when the plane went down about 4.15pm (7.15pm AEDT) but the pilots somehow survived.

Airbus is testing a new system which uses cameras to enable planes to fly without pilots and land on their own in emergencies.

Boeing has pleaded not guilty to a charge that it misled regulators who approved its 737 Max, the plane that was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.

It's believed the plane suffered an engine problem while more than 100 people were on flight QF144 from Auckland to Sydney.

The co-pilot of the Yeti Airlines flight that crashed in Nepal earlier this week had a husband who died while flying for the same airline years earlier.