The massive search and rescue (SAR) efforts initiated since the disappearance of Indonesia's Adam Air passenger plane on Jan. 1 have not got any result in the location of the aircraft's body, the SAR Mission's coordinator, Air Commodore Eddy Suyanto, said on January 13.

Two people were killed when a small business jet crashed while taking off from Van Nuys Airport near Los Angeles, California, on January 12, U.S. federal officials said.

China's civil aviation industry achieved a clean sheet in safety last year by notching up 6.13 million hours of safe flights.

Pieces of an Indonesian airliner that vanished with 102 people on board have been found strewn in the ocean, officials said on January 11, after a painstaking 10-day search from jungles to stormy seas.

Critics raising concerns about Indonesia's disaster response system and the safety of the country's rapidly growing budget airline industry following the disappearance of a Boeing 737 on New Year's Day.

On January 9, a cargo plane carrying Turkish workers crashed during landing at an airport near Baghdad, killing 30 people and injuring two, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

Fewer planes crashed worldwide in 2006 than in any year since 1963, but the 1,292 death toll was in line with the average of the past 10 years, a Geneva-based monitoring agency reported on Jan. 2.

On December 8, Brazil's Federal Police charged U.S. pilots Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino of unintentionally risking the safety of the commercial airplane that crashed in the Brazilian rainforest, killing 154 passengers on September 29.

China has achieved over 5.8 million hours of safety flying record so far, according to the source from the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC).