A coffee spillage in the cockpit of an airliner flying over the Atlantic Ocean forced the plane to turn back and land in Ireland.

Footballer Emiliano Sala was exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide before he was killed in a plane crash and it is likely his pilot was also affected, accident investigators said.

A post-mortem examination has confirmed Emiliano Sala died from head injuries.

Two people suffered minor injuries when a light aircraft overturned while landing at an airport, police have said.

A helicopter crash in which five family members with Irish connections were killed happened after the pilot failed to turn around when entering low cloud, accident investigators said.

Latest: Four people have died following a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a two-seater plane in Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police Superintendent Rebecca Mears has said.

Two men have died in a light aircraft crash in Wiltshire, in the UK.

The rector who baptised the youngest child of Ruth and Kevin Burke, killed in a helicopter crash while en route to Ireland this week, has said the community in England where they lived is “in disarray”.

The black box from Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 will be given to British experts today in the hope that they will be able to shed light on what caused Rescue 116 to crash off the coast of Co Mayo.

A rope attached to the world's largest aircraft made contact with a power line before it crashed, manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said.

Footage from cockpit cameras in the vintage jet involved in the Shoreham air disaster in England has revealed the aircraft showed “no abnormal indications” during the flight, according to air crash investigators.

The sister and stepmother of Osama bin Laden are thought to be among those killed after a private jet crashed in the UK yesterday.

An investigation has been launched after a plane with 52 people on board skidded off the runway after landing at an airport.

The first pieces of wreckage of flight MH17 which was downed over Ukraine last summer have arrived in the Netherlands for examination by crash investigators.

Work has started on the recovery of wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was downed over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives.

A captain lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached as he was coming in to land, an accident report has said.

A captain lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached as he was coming in to land, an accident report has said.

Former BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ Mike Smith has died aged 59.

Personal belongings of one of the British victims of the MH17 Malaysia Airlines crash have been stolen, his brother-in-law has said.

The Dutch safety team leading the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has given permission for wreckage at the crash site to be moved.

Dutch air safety officials leading the investigation into the MH17 disaster have still not got safe access to the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

Black box flight recorders from the downed Air Malaysian plane have arrived for analysis by UK crash investigators.

The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine today.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch in the UK has not identified any technical malfunction which may account for the helicopter crash which claimed the life of the North's richest man Edward Haughey and three other men last month.

Two people are thought to have been killed after a light aircraft crashed into a field in a rural area, police said.

A pilot has escaped serious injury after making an emergency landing when his plane hit a flock of birds.

The town of Newry is reeling, after the death of one of the North's wealthiest businessmen.

One of the people killed when a helicopter crashed in thick fog in the UK was Northern Irish businessman Eddie Haughey, according to reports.

Both engines failed on the helicopter which crashed into a Glasgow pub resulting in 10 deaths, an interim air accident report said today.

Lawyers representing injured victims and families of those killed in the Glasgow helicopter crash have started legal action against the aircraft’s operator.

Investigators have found no initial evidence of engine or gearbox failure in their probe into the police helicopter crash in Glasgow which claimed nine lives.

The bodies of nine people killed when a police helicopter crashed into the roof of a busy pub have been recovered, as investigators revealed that no mayday call was made from the aircraft.

Victims of the Glasgow helicopter crash will be remembered at a service in the city’s cathedral, as the rescue and recovery operation continues.

More than 30 people have been taken to hospital after a police helicopter crashed on to the roof of a crowded pub in Scotland.

The bodies of three of the four oil workers who died when a helicopter plunged into the North Sea have been brought back to the mainland.

A light aircraft made a dramatic crash-landing in a back garden in England today.

A British Airways plane had to return to Heathrow airport today with smoke billowing from the aircraft.

A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.

A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.

Wreckage from the jumbo jet blown up over Lockerbie has been returned to Scotland almost 25 years after the terrorist atrocity.

A pilot who was killed after his helicopter crashed into a crane in central London had been advised not to embark on the journey because of poor visibility.

The pilot who died today after the helicopter he was flying crashed in London was named by sources as Pete Barnes.

An eerie silence hung over the scene of the London helicopter crash where mangled metal and the remains of a burnt-out car told of the horrors which unfolded in central London today.

Paul McCartney narrowly avoided a potentially-fatal crash when the pilot of his helicopter became "disorientated" in bad weather.

A hot air balloon flight ended in tragedy in Britain today when two men plunged to their deaths while attempting to climb to high altitude.

A hot air balloon on a high-altitude flight lost control and plummeted to the ground in England today, killing both occupants, emergency services said.

A PSNI air crew who escaped major injury when their helicopter flipped upside down on landing are lucky to be alive, a senior officer said tonight.

Four police personnel were injured today when a helicopter overturned as it took off from the scene of last week’s fatal helicopter crash in the North.