Investigators in Turkey are trying to work out what caused a passenger plane to crash in the country's south-west, killing all 57 passengers and crew.

The pilot of Garuda Flight 200, which crashed and burned killing 21 people in March, has now been officially named as a suspect in an investigation by Indonesian police.

Indonesian police say they are gathering evidence to pursue manslaughter charges against the two pilots who survived the crash of a Garuda plane earlier this year.

A Russian-made cargo plane with at least 17 people on board has crashed and exploded in a crowded neighbourhood of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa.

Thailand sent the black boxes containing flight data from a plane that crashed in Phuket last weekend to the United States, where experts hope to discover what caused the accident.

Officials in French Polynesia say a small passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off from the island of Moorea Thursday, killing at least 14 people.

One of the two thrust reversers on an airliner carrying 186 people that crashed in a fireball was turned off when the plane landed, the jet's owner said, as officials tried to determine why it raced down a runway instead of slowing down.

Brazilian authorities say at least 200 people are dead after a passenger plane burst into flames Tuesday evening on landing in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The governor of Sao Paulo state said all 176 people aboard the plane are likely dead. Many on the ground are also believed to have perished.

Reports from Cameroon, where a Kenya Airways plane crashed shortly after takeoff, say searchers have found wreckage but no sign of survivors. The six-month-old Boeing 737 jet went down with 114 people aboard early Saturday, during a torrential rainstorm. The airport at Douala, Cameroon's largest city, briefly heard a distress signal, but rescuers were unable to locate the crash site for more than 40 hours.