Last year was one of the safest for airlines with the number of fatal accidents falling by two thirds if you excluded more than 300 deaths resulting from a pilot suicide and possible terror attack.

An Asiana Airlines plane crash-landed short of the runway at Hiroshima Airport in Japan, injuring 27 passengers in its first accident since a crash landing in San Francisco almost two years ago.

A new report on the disappearance of MH370 was released as relatives and friends of the passengers and crew gathered in Malaysia and China to commemorate the event.

AirAsia Flight 8501 climbed to an unauthorized altitude fast and steep before the aircraft fell into the ocean, Indonesian investigators said in their first description of the last moments of the ill-fated plane.

An AirAsia plane with 155 passengers and seven crew on board a flight to Singapore has gone missing for almost a day, prompting a multi-nation search across the seas surrounding Indonesia.