Crash

Investigators seek to understand why jet with 150 on board went into a long descent for eight minutes before crashing into side of a ravine.

What caused the German airliner to crash near Digne in southern France remains unknown but initial suggestions point to mechanical failure.

Eight French victims of a collision between two helicopters during filming of Dropped, including sports stars and TV crew, are to be flown home.

Yachtswoman Florence Arthaud, swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine were among ten dead during filming of TV survival show.

The Greek F-16 crashed during take-off at a NATO training centre at Albacete, southeast of Madrid, killing ten and injuring up to 19.

Passengers had left Alpine ski resort when coach skidded off motorway near Chambéry, leaving 13 people hurt.

Federal investigators said the driver of a snow plough hit by Christophe de Margerie's jet was drunk, and also blamed airport's management.

The airline said press reports that two of three pilots flying AF447 were asleep showed 'a major misunderstanding' of events in its cockpit.

French investigators into the July crash of Algiers-bound flight that left 116 dead say 'nothing tells us we can rule out or confirm terrorism'.

French inspectors said recovered cockpit recordings were 'so far unusable' to explain crash over Mali in which 116 died, 54 of them French.

There were no survivors from among the 116 people aboard the plane, 54 of them French, which crashed in desolate terrain in NE Mali.

Malian president says remains of the plane on loan to Air Algérie, carrying more than 50 French nationals, was found in remote desert region.

The MD-83 airliner, on loan from Spain's Swiftair, was carrying 110 passengers from Burkina Faso to Algeria early on Thursday.

A regional express train collided with the back of a TGV train near Denguin injuring 25 people, nine seriously.

Inquiry into cause of Bretigny-sur-Orge derailment near Paris in July 2013, which left seven people dead, points finger at poor maintenance.