Past accidents have been attributed to poor pilot training, mechanical failures, air traffic control issues and poor aircraft maintenance.

The Boeing 737-500 with 62 passengers and crew was headed on a domestic flight to Pontianak in West Kalimantan on Saturday before it disapp...

Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of a Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 metres (75 feet) in the Java Sea, a day afte...

Indonesian Transport Minister Budi Karya told a news conference that 62 people had been aboard Flight SJ 182, including 12 crew. The detik....

That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat, correctly diagnosed the problem and told the crew how to disable a malfunctioning...

Suneja, 31, was flying the Lion Air flight JT610 which lost contact with the ground officials 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta Soek...

"News of the plane crash in Indonesia is deeply unfortunate. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased & prayers with those injured...

Days of rough weather and poor underwater visibility have hampered navy divers' efforts to recover bodies and lift the main part of the pla...

In their first remarks since analysing the cockpit voice recorder - part of the crucial black box expected to shed new light on the mysteri...

The task of analysing the black boxes of the ill-fated AirAsia flight QZ8501 would be harder for Nurcahyo, who was a junior to the pilot Ca...

Command operational director Suryadi Supriyadi told reporters at Pangkalan Bun city that Japan's JS Onami and Malaysia's KD Kasturi ships.

The searchers would continue to focus on finding more bodies and recovering the black box in the priority area mapped out by the authoritie...

Extreme bad weather was the "triggering factor" behind the AirAsia plane crash with icing likely causing engine damage, Indonesia's meteoro...

Nine bodies have been recovered until now, Soelistyo said as the search in waters off Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan entered sixth day.

China has deployed a navy frigate to join search operation to locate the debris of the AirAsia aircraft that went missing on Sunday, offici...

The Indonesia team suspects the plane is under water, search and rescue agency chief F.H. Bambang Sulistyo said on Monday in Jakarta.

Police and military teams scoured dense jungle in search of an Indonesian air force plane that went missing with five crew and 13 passenger...