A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and ploughed into a muddy field near Amsterdam's main airport, but most people on board - 125 people - survived. The nine dead included both pilots.

A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the holiday season crashed, burned and broke into pieces today while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said.

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

Signs have been found of a Kenya-bound flight that crashed in Cameroon with 114 people aboard, an aviation official said today.

Fog and thick forest reduced visibility this morning as rescuers prepared to resume the search in southern Cameroon for a Kenya-bound flight that crashed with 114 people on board after sending out a distress signal, officials said.