Essendon Airport now wants to narrow the strip width back to 180 metres, and started consulting late last year with operators at the airport about how that could affect their operations.

There is no evidence to suggest the plane that crashed into a Melbourne shopping centre last month experienced "pre-impact" engine failure or had pre-existing faults, a preliminary report says.

The DFO shopping centre, which the plane crashed into, is on land owned by Essendon airport. It was built in 2005. "If this was a grass field as it used to be, it could be a different situation ...

ESSENDON crash pilot Max Quartermain radioed Mayday seven times before the B200 Super King Air he was operating struck the DFO building adjacent to the airfield and burst into flames.

Essendon DFO plane crash: The five who just missed being on board the flight By Tom Cowie Updated April 22, 2017 — 1.18pm first published April 21, 2017 — 9.41am ...

The fatal crash quickly invoked memories of another take-off from Essendon that led to a plane crashing into a house in Airport West, killing six people, and an incident in 1993 when another ...

ESSENDON crash pilot Max Quartermain radioed Mayday seven times before the B200 Super King Air he was operating struck the DFO building adjacent to the airfield and burst into flames.

INVESTIGATORS will not attempt to reconstruct the plane that crashed into the DFO Building adjacent to Essendon Airport last month, killing all five people on board.

A fireball erupted this morning when a plane carrying five people crashed into the DFO shopping complex just before 9am. The private charter plane was taking off on its journey to King Island when ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Essendon Airport will reopen on Thursday, two days after the plane crash that killed five people. But the DFO that the plane hit and ...

INVESTIGATORS will not attempt to reconstruct the plane that crashed into the DFO Building adjacent to Essendon Airport last month, killing all five people on board.