Indonesian budget carrier Adam Air is close to signing a deal with a salvage firm to retrieve the black box of one of its planes which crashed on New Year's Day with 102 people aboard, the airline's head said on May 25.

AirAsia's high pace of growth and strong profitability continued in its fiscal third quarter ended March 31 with a net profit of MRY86.9 million (US$25.6 million), more than five times the MRY14.1 million earned in the year-ago quarter, on a 53% surge in revenue to MRY396.2 million.

Middle Eastern and Asian companies lure away pilots, engineers and cabin crew trained in Africa, the head of the African Airlines Association has said.

On May 2, the Hong Kong SAR Government published a report of the investigation into an aircraft accident on June 11, 2005. The accident involved a private helicopter flight by a Robinson R44 helicopter operated by Topjet Aviation Limited. The pilot and two passengers suffered serious injuries in the accident while another passenger was uninjured.

Investigators say they want to know why the pilot of a Kenya Airways flight that crashed, killing all 114 people aboard, took off in a severe storm instead of waiting for thunderclouds to move out of the flight path.

On May 7, rescue workers in Cameroon pulled remains of victims from a fetid swamp two days after a Kenya Airways plane crashed, killing all 114 people on board.

Rescue teams found no one alive when they reached the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane which crashed in swampland in southwest Cameroon with 114 people on board.

The wreckage of Kenya Airway's Boeing 737-800 which crashed on May 5 in Cameroon has been found near a village named Mbangabongo, near Douala, Cameroonian government announced on May 6.

A Kenya Airways plane with more than 100 people on board has crashed in southern Cameroon, state radio reports.

Garuda Indonesia has accused the US State Department of misleading travellers with a warning that urges them to use airlines from other countries when flying to Indonesia.