The Chinese airliner, flying between the cities of Kunming and Guangzhou, nosedived into a mountainside earlier this week. The crash is China's deadliest in almost 30 years.

Nigeria's Air Force said one of its planes crashed in central Nigeria with the country's army chief Ibrahim Attahiru on board.

Bodies are recovered and the injured are taken onto ambulances at the site of a plane crash in the southern city of Karachi.

A passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, the government says. The Central Asian country's emergencies committee said that 100 people were on board the Bek Air plane, including five staff.

The death toll from a plane that crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday has risen to at least 27, including some people on the ground, a rescue official said.

The Cubana de Aviacion flight that crashed on Friday has left 110 people dead including five children while three others survived, said Cuba's transportation minister at a press conference on Saturday.

An Aseman Airlines plane crashed near the town of Semirom after taking off from Tehran's Mehrabad airport, with 66 people on board.

At least four dead in Ivory Coast plane crash.

One person was killed and another injured after a small plane crashed into a Florida daycare center Saturday morning.

Fatal plane crash outside Mexico City kills all on board.

A light plane crashed into the Swan River during Australia Day celebrations in Perth on Thursday, killing two on board.

The Brazilian football team that lost much of its squad when their plane crashed last November has made an emotional return to the pitch.