More than half the Boeing 787s in use around the world have been grounded after an emergency landing by one of the jets revealed a battery fire risk in the aircraft.

Investigators probing the Cork Airport plane crash that claimed the lives of six people, have found a power anomaly in the aircraft’s engines and a sensor fault in one of its engines.

A vintage Second World War-era fighter plane has plunged into the grandstands during a popular annual US air show, killing at least three people and injuring more than 50 spectators.

A Caribbean Airlines jet coming from New York has crashed and broken in two while landing in Guyana with 163 people aboard, causing several injuries but no deaths.

THE crew piloting a doomed Air France jet over the Atlantic did not realise the plane was in a stall, were insufficiently trained in flying manually, and never informed the passengers that anything was wrong before they plunged into the sea.

The US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the aborted landing of a plane carrying First Lady Michelle Obama earlier this week, a spokeswoman said today.

Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.

INVESTIGATORS probing the Cork Airport tragedy will begin the painstaking task of reconstructing the shattered remains of the plane in a Co Meath hangar today.

A business jet carrying Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker crashed on take-off because its tyres were under-inflated, a problem that may affect many other planes, investigators said today.

Passengers on the American Airlines plane that overshot the runway in Jamaica and stopped just seconds away from the sea told of their terrifying ordeal today.

Divers were today searching for clues to a mid-air crash between a light aircraft and a sightseeing helicopter carrying tourists over New York’s Hudson River in which nine people died.

Malfunctioning equipment on at least a dozen recent flights by US passenger jets made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, investigators have discovered.

Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France Flight 447 victims, injuries that – along with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic – strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts say.

EXPERTS say autopsies on victims of the Air France disaster suggest the plane broke up in the air.

Autopsies on victims of the Air France disaster suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts confirmed tonight.

The ocean location of the Air France plane crash victims could provide answers to whether the doomed jet broke up in the air, experts said.

The grim task of identifying victims of the Air France plane crash will begin today.

Air France and other airlines today moved to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean.

Details of the calm manner in which the Hudson River jet crash captain handled the emergency were revealed today.

A newly-released recording reveals the drama of Flight 1549 from almost the minute it left the ground.

A COMMUTER train engineer sent a mobile phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into freight train in southern California last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said.

LOSS of cabin pressure is not infrequent on passenger planes but occasionally it can have fatal consequences.

Spain's civil aviation chief said a glitch in an air temperature gauge that forced the doomed Spanair jet to abandon its first take-off attempt an hour before it crashed should be examined.

SPECULATION on what caused the plane disaster centred yesterday on a plane part that had to be fixed after the flight first tried to take off.

Australian airline Qantas moved to inspect oxygen cylinders on its entire fleet today as investigators focused on a missing tank as the suspected cause of a mid-air blast that tore a hole in a jumbo jet carrying more than 350 people.

Australian investigators were exploring the possibility today that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on the Qantas jumbo jet from London that was forced to plunge 20,000 feet and make an emergency landing in the Philippines.

Both engines of the British Airways jet that crash landed at Heathrow Airport were still running when it came down, investigators revealed today.

AN Aer Lingus aircraft with 340 people on board narrowly avoided a fatal collision during take-off because of a mistake by an air traffic controller, an official investigation has revealed.

Recovery of victims from the Cameroon crash of a Kenya Airways passenger jet in which five Britons died was stepped up today, with teams removing bodies from the plane’s submerged fuselage for the first time.

Crash investigators combing through the wreckage of a Kenya Airways Flight were concentrating on the possibility that the jet lost power in both engines during a storm and tried to glide back to an airport before plunging nose-first into a Cameroon swamp.

None of the 114 people aboard a jet survived its crash into a thick mangrove swamp in Cameroon over the weekend, an official said today.

The wreckage of an aircraft which crashed in southern Cameroon with 114 people - including five Britons – on board was found tonight.

Investigators picked through the charred debris of a Boeing 737-400 that burst into flames after careering off a runway in Indonesia, as forensic experts struggled to identify the 21 people killed, many burned beyond recognition.

A US Navy oceanographic survey ship was today trying to determine whether large pieces of round metal found off Sulawesi Island’s western coast were the wreckage of a Boeing 737 that disappeared more than a week ago carrying 102 people.

The US Navy will scour Indonesia’s western coast today for the wreckage of a Boeing 737 jet that disappeared in a storm more than a week ago with 102 passengers on board.

Rescuers expanded their search for a missing plane to the sea today, after senior Indonesian officials mistakenly said yesterday that the Boeing 737’s charred wreckage had been found along with a dozen survivors.

Terrified passengers on board a plane crippled in mid-air prepared for the worst last night, and one taped a farewell message to his girlfriend.

Brian Church, Athens

Two seconds before impact, the last man conscious in the cockpit of a doomed Cypriot airliner made a desperate call for help – “Mayday, Mayday” – before the plane carrying 121 people smashed into a mountain near Athens.

VENEZUELAN investigators yesterday picked through the wreckage of a plane that crashed with 160 people on board, trying to determine what caused the engines to fail and sent the jet plunging from the sky in the country’s deadliest air disaster in history.

Venezuelan investigators are picking through the shattered wreckage of a plane that crashed with 160 people on board, trying to determine what caused the engines to fail and sent the jet plunging from the sky in the country’s deadliest air disaster in history.

A plane carrying holidaymakers crashed today in western Venezuela after reporting engine problems, killing all 160 people on board, officials said.

Russian officials are examining the wreckage of two crashed planes today in an effort to determine whether a terrorist attack caused the near-simultaneous disasters that killed all 89 people aboard.

Two British men and their young sons were killed when their light aircraft crashed and burst into flames in the United States, police said today.