Air Incidents

Passengers and crew members survived terrifying mid-air moments to save flight FZ1073 from disaster.

Passengers have described the terrifying plummet that saw the jet descend nearly 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds and the cockpit scrum that helped the flydubai flight land safely.

One pilot stabbed another and attempted to crash a flight, according to Israel's prime minister, with one passenger who intervened praised as a "hero".

A commercial flight carrying 174 people to Tel Aviv has been forced to divert to Saudi Arabia after one pilot stabbed the other and tried to crash the plane, according to the Israeli PM. mi

Passenger Miryam Shira Ohayon said the plane was "pretty much out of control" when one of the pilots tried to stab the other while they were flying over Jordan en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

SpaceX's Starship rocket has made it to Earth's orbit for the first time, after losing an engine mid-flight.

In 1966, a Brisbane-bound flight from Mount Isa ended in a disaster that left and indelible mark on a Queensland community and sparked one of Australia's biggest aviation crash investigations.

Footage emerges from onboard a helicopter that crashed in Los Angeles.

A 51-year-old man has died in a gyrocopter crash at a pastoral property west of Broken Hill, SA Police say.

As investigators comb through the wreckage, key questions are emerging, from where the jet actually touched down to why it was still travelling at more than 200 kilometres per hour at the end of the runway. 

The founder of a popular dairy company and his daughter have been revealed as the victims of a light plane crash south of Brisbane on Monday.

Emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 11am today, with eight crews taking about an hour to extinguish the grass fire.

An Amazon cargo plane has barrelled off a runway at Miami International Airport, striking multiple vehicles and bursting into flames in a crash that sent thick black smoke billowing into the sky and forced the closure of all runways at one of the United States's busiest airports.

Flight QF122 had just left Queenstown in New Zealand on Saturday when it was diverted over what the airline said was a "suspected engine issue".

Two pilots have died in an air force jet crash at Greece's annual aerial show, Athens Flying Week.

Eyewitness video captures Sydney-bound Qantas flight experiencing a suspected engine issue shortly after taking off from Queenstown.

The Sydney-bound Boeing aircraft left the alpine ski town of Queenstown in New Zealand just before 3:30pm before it had to be diverted to Christchurch.

A knife and a saw have been seized, and a 38-year-old man is in custody after allegedly assaulting a police officer in the car park of an airport on the NSW North Coast. 

The search for missing pilot Bob Bramley in the remote Northern Territory, and wreckage from the plane he was flying before the crash, have been suspended off Groote Eylandt.

There's been an outpouring of grief for a 23-year-old Tasmanian pilot and suicide prevention advocate following the news that he's believed to have died after his plane crashed off the coast of the Northern Territory.