VIDEO: Osprey aircraft: Helicopter or plane?

Amateur video has emerged showing the first pictures of the site in Mali where an Air Algerie flight AH5017 passenger jet crashed on Thursday.

Rescue teams resumed their recovery operation in the mountains on Thursday
The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday appeared to want to "destroy the plane", French officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the "black box" voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit. He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out. Mr Robin said there was "absolute silence in the cockpit" as the pilot...

Four people on board a cargo plane which crashed into a building in the Kenyan capital Nairobi are feared dead.

Footage has emerged showing a sandstorm in Gao, Mali, where an Algerian passenger plane carrying 116 people disappeared on Thursday.

Prior to his arrival in Kenya for a three-nation African tour, Pope Francis was filmed on board the papal plane greeting reporters.

The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say.

The Algerian government says 77 people died when a military transport plane crashed in the Atlas mountains.

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Africa Region (CPA–AR) president, Ms Anne Makinda, yesterday expressed her sadness over the Malaysian jetliner shooting over Ukraine.

>Tanganyika Wildlife Safari, which is a group of tourist hunting and photographic companies based in Dar es Salaam, has acquired a Sh200 million brand new light aircraft for ant-poaching patrols in the Selous Game Reserve.