New Zealand Plane Crash

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologised on Thursday for the then-government's handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country's worst peacetime disaster.

All 13 people on board a skydiving plane leapt to safety Wednesday moments before their aircraft plunged into a lake on New Zealand's North Island.

All 13 people on a New Zealand skydiving plane that got into trouble on Wednesday managed to don parachutes and leap out moments before the plane plunged into a lake, police said.

The two amongst the 298 people killed were aboard the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines plane - reportedly shot down in Ukraine - and were on their way to New Zealand to watch Newcastle play ahead of EPL.

For a second day, searchers have been unable to reach a plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while carrying three Canadians.

Nine people were killed after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company burst into flames and crashed today near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said.     The plane caught fire after takeoff from an airstrip at Fox Glacier on the country's South Island, said Ian Henderson, a spokesman for lo...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologised on Thursday for the then-government's handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country's worst peacetime disaster.

All 13 people on board a skydiving plane leapt to safety Wednesday moments before their aircraft plunged into a lake on New Zealand's North Island.

All 13 people on a New Zealand skydiving plane that got into trouble on Wednesday managed to don parachutes and leap out moments before the plane plunged into a lake, police said.

The two amongst the 298 people killed were aboard the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines plane - reportedly shot down in Ukraine - and were on their way to New Zealand to watch Newcastle play ahead of EPL.

For a second day, searchers have been unable to reach a plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while carrying three Canadians.

Nine people were killed after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company burst into flames and crashed today near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said.     The plane caught fire after takeoff from an airstrip at Fox Glacier on the country's South Island, said Ian Henderson, a spokesman for lo...