A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off on Saturday from Shanghai’s main international airport, killing three crew members.

France wants to launch an expanded effort to find the missing wreckage and flight recorders of the Air France jet which crashed in June.

Two badly damaged black box recorders have been recovered from a plane that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board.

A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in north-western Iran on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, Iranian media reported.

A passenger aircraft crashed in north-western Iran on Wednesday, and up to 169 people on board were feared killed, ISNA news agency reported.

The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month was not destroyed in mid-air but hit the water intact, French investigators say.