Civil Aviation Authority

The air force breached international aviation standards by placing dangerous chemical canisters on an Air New Zealand passenger flight - and then told no one about it, according to a Civil Aviation Authority report.

Civil Aviation is investigating an incident in which a helicopter was damaged west of Lake Wanaka, near Minnaret Peaks, about 1pm on Thursday.

Safe and effective radio communication is complex, requires training and can only be bettered through practise, those involved in aviation are learning throughout Otago this month.

The Civil Aviation Authority says all adventure aviation operators in the Southern Lakes region should be fully certified under new regulations by Monday, but it was "not a good example" of how certification should be done.

The pilot charged with careless use of an aircraft in an outbound flight from Queenstown almost two years ago declined to be interviewed by the Civil Aviation Authority about the incident, the authority's general manager told the Queenstown District Court this morning.

Almost 300 aircraft were reported as being in the wrong place in New Zealand skies last year, the Civil Aviation Authority says.

Aviation regulators have been urged by safety consultants to consider extra restrictions for trainee pilots making multiple attempts to pass flight tests.

More than five years after two men were killed in a helicopter crash on Homestead Peak in Mt Aspiring National Park, the coroner's inquest into the accident has not been completed.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have begun an investigation into yesterday's fatal helicopter crash in the Lake Coleridge area, about 100km west of Christchurch.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is preparing to question the pilot of a Robinson R-22 helicopter that crashed to the ground at the north end of Lake Hauroko, northwest of Tuatapere early yesterday morning.

A helicopter crash near Shingle Creek is being investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority.

A report into a Pacific Blue flight that allegedly took off from Queenstown after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) twilight cut-off and in bad weather on one of the shortest days of the year should be ready by the end of next month.