Satellite images show a possible debris field from flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean but bad weather has kept answers out of the grasp of search crews.

A helicopter broke apart in midair near Wanaka after the rotors struck the tail during turbulence, killing the trainee pilot and instructor, a crash investigation has found.

A Chicago law firm is preparing for what could be a multimillion dollar lawsuit following the Malaysia Airlines tragedy.

The brother of pilot Daroish Kraidy, whose plane is missing off the Coromandel coast, says he may yet be found alive.

Billy Adams asks: "Was there any anger or resentment towards an employer with whom Zaharie Ahmad Shah had clocked up more than 18,000 hours' flying time?"

The search for Flight MH370 has been complicated by floating objects in the sea that may have been mistaken for pieces of wreckage from the aircraft.

Danica Weeks learned her husband Paul had died on flight MH370 via text message.

A New Zealand criminologist has come out in support of a theory that the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft was on a suicide mission.

When Najib Razak, Malaysia's prime minister, faced the cameras with the news that there were no survivors from missing flight MH370, families across the globe wept.

The captain of Flight 370 was in no state of mind to fly the day it disappeared and could have taken the Boeing 777 for a "last joyride", a fellow pilot says.

It was the news Paul Weeks' family had been dreading.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel stationed in Perth to help search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are due for a break

The last contact with a small plane that crashed in Hawkes Bay yesterday, killing both men on board, suggested nothing was wrong.

At dawn yesterday the first of an international air fleet lifted off yet again from the Australian Air Force's big Pearce base north of Perth.

Another investigation has been launched into the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after phone records found he had received a call just before take-off.

Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club president Bruce Govenlock says the deaths of his friend and a UK pilot in today's plane crash were a "terrible tragedy''.

Two expat Kiwis who were going skydiving are dead after a fiery plane crash in Queensland, Australia, claimed the lives of everyone on board.

Two weeks ago, 38-year-old New Zealander Paul Weeks kissed his wife Danica goodbye at the airport.

A Civil Aviation Authority inquiry is under way this afternoon into a fatal helicopter crash in a forestry block near Gisborne this morning in which a 53-year-old local man died.

An New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion will today search for for anything floating in the sea that may indicate where a missing Malaysian passenger plane might be.

Editorial: The dearth of information about the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has had a predictable consequence: conspiracy theories.

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US investigators suspect a missing Malaysian jetliner flew on for four hours once it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to the Wall St Journal.

Malaysian leaders fronted a news conference in Kuala Lumpur last night and admitted that, five days into the search for Flight 370, they still have no idea what's happened to the jet.

Malaysia Airlines faces an uphill public relations battle as it struggles to get on the front foot after the disappearance of MH370.

For Malaysia Airlines, every hour counts as it deals with the loss of flight MH370 with 227 passengers and 12 crew on-board.

The desperate search for a passenger jet that vanished has been significantly expanded, as anger grows in China at the response by Malaysian authorities.