DHL Worldwide Express said today that the British pilot of a cargo plane that collided with a Russian charter flight was ‘‘extremely experienced’’.

A recent rule change on how close planes are allowed to fly to each other will come under the spotlight following the mid-air crash over Germany, aviation experts said today.

The Russian passenger jet that collided in mid-air with a cargo plane last night over southern Germany was carrying 44 children, it has emerged.

Scores of people are feared dead after a Russian passenger jet with dozens of people on board and a cargo plane collided over southern Germany.

Scores of people were feared dead today after a Tupolev 154 and a Boeing 757 airliner collided over the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

A Tupolev and a Boeing airliner have collided in mid-air over southern Germany, state officials said tonight.

A Russian military helicopter has crashed into a mountain in southern Siberia, killing all 11 people aboard.

An airliner with 112 people on board crashed into the sea off the north east coast of China tonight after the captain reported a fire in the cabin.

A Chinese airliner with 112 people on board crashed into the sea off the north east of the nation tonight.

At least 15 people have died after an EgyptAir plane crashed as it attempted an emergency landing on the approach to Tunis airport.

An EgyptAir plane crashed while trying to land near Tunis today, the national Tunisian news agency reported.

Police in South Korea have said seven of the 54 people rescued from the wreckage of a crashed Air China plane, had died later in hospital.

The flight recorder of an Air China plane carrying 166 passengers which crashed has been recovered, Transportation Ministry official Kim Young-woon said.

Fifty four people are thought to have survived the crash of an Air China jet in South Korea.

More than 160 passengers aboard a Chinese plane were feared dead after the aircraft crashed near one of the World Cup host cities in bad weather early today.

The 15-year-old student pilot who crashed a small plane into a Florida skyscraper wrote a note expressing sympathy for Osama bin Laden and support for the September 11 terrorist attacks, police said.

British Air Accident Investigators have recovered the second black box from the private jet which crashed at Birmingham International Airport yesterday.

Birmingham International Airport is not expected to re-open until lunchtime today, after a plane crash yesterday.

British air investigators are trying to establish why an executive jet crashed at Birmingham International airport.

Four people were reported killed and 40 others injured when an airliner crash landed on a road near Malaga airport on Spain’s Costa del Sol today.

At least three people are feared dead and some 40 others injured after a passenger plane crash landed in Malaga.

We are receiving reports a plane has crashed on a road near Malaga airport in Spain.

The Gulfstream jet which crashed in Aspen, Colorado, was owned by Hollywood producer Andrew Vajna.

Coroner's officials have begun removing bodies after a chartered executive jet crashed into a hillside in a US ski resort.

Eighteen people have been killed after a chartered executive jet crashed into a hillside in a US ski resort.

Eighteen people have been killed after a chartered aeroplane crashed into a hillside near an airport in the US ski resort of Aspen, Colorado.