Air and Space Accident

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the search for four missing personnel following a helicopter crash in the Whitsundays last Friday is now a ‘recovery’ effort.

Defence Personnel Minister Matt Keogh says the incident highlights the risk faced by members of the armed forces.

Activity in Queensland's Whitsundays has changed from search and rescue, to a recovery mission, Defence Minister Richard Marles says. 

The horse involved in Sunday's light plane crash on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula has been put down, police say.

The aircraft was taking off at Brentwood, on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula, when it hit the horse and crashed, SA Police say.

In the latest chapter in its troubled history, four people are feared dead after an Australian Army helicopter crashed into the ocean. It's not the first time concerns have been raised about Taipan choppers.

A man and a women in their 60s have died after a mid-air collision between two light planes, north of Brisbane. The pilot of the second plane walked away uninjured and is helping investigators.

One pilot survived the mid-air collision near Caboolture Airfield, which killed David and Jan Maddern on Friday morning.

Police say wreckage found off the Queensland coast appears to be from missing Taipan chopper, but the search continues for its four-person crew.

A man and a woman in their 60s have died after a collision between two aircraft at Caboolture Airfield. They were flying in one of the light planes, while the other pilot was not seriously injured.

The Tecnam single-engine aircraft crashed on a property about 110 kilometres north-west of Broken Hill.

On the final day of a coronial inquest into the 2020 crash that killed five men in far north Queensland, Liz Thomas called on the industry to fit equipment to aircraft that would alert aviators if they are too close to the ground.

A coronial inquest examining a catastrophic plane crash that killed all on board in Far North Queensland has heard the pilot was flying too low and too fast moments before impact.

The explosion of the Epsilon S engine occurred at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) testing site in northern Japan.

A transport safety investigation into a plane crash that killed a newlywed couple and their unborn child in North Queensland earlier this year finds that the pilot had completed the practical requirements to obtain a licence but not the flight or theory tests.

Known for his "cheeky smile" and "quick wit", 32-year-old Tom Grey died in a plane crash last year that was "not considered survivable" by Australian Transport and Safety Bureau investigators.

Helicopter charter company Top End Mustering said the highly experienced pilot was performing routine mustering when the Robinson R22 chopper crashed on Tuesday.

Australia's national transport safety watchdog is concerned there are issues "relating to the status of evidence available" for its safety investigation that has embroiled celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright in an unfolding court battle.

Footage by local broadcaster TVB has shown several injured passengers being transported to a local hospital. An unnamed passenger told TVB that the plane suddenly braked.

The injuries occurred when passengers exited the aircraft using escape slides after the crew identified "a technical issue".

One person has been seriously injured after a light plane crash near Derby.  

A spiritual tea made from rainforest plants is being credited with playing an important role in the search for four children lost in the Colombian Amazon jungle.

Max Hazelton is remembered as a man who "broke a few rules", provided regional Australians with access to air travel and survived six days lost after a crash in NSW, at a memorial service in Orange attended by hundreds.

Jocelyn Chia, a New York-based comedian, stirred controversy in Malaysia and Singapore after she posted on social media a clip of her live comedy set in which she joked about the plane that went missing nine years ago with 239 people onboard.

Cassava flour and some familiarity with the rainforest's fruits were key to four Colombian children's extraordinary survival in jungle where snakes, mosquitoes and other animals abound, after their plane crashed.