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Billy Adams: Seaplane fascination taking on eerie significance

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?"

Flight MH370: Debris hampers search

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.

Text message pain for family

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

MH370: Expert backs suicide theory

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.

Heartbreak for 'orphaned' parents

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.

Desperate search resumes

The desperate, multinational hunt for Flight 370 has resumed across a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean after fierce winds and high waves that forced a daylong halt eased.

Mystery of MH370 plane's final signal

The Malaysia Airlines flight gave one last unexplained signal eight minutes after its final "ping", possibly the result of the plane entering its "catastrophic phase".

Did pilot take a 'last joyride'?

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.

New clues in debris find

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will continue indefinitely in the ocean off West Australia, but authorities want to be clear the effort could be fruitless.

Relatives unsure what to believe

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

Gisborne chopper crash victim named

One dead in Gisborne chopper crash

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.

Missing plane: NZ Orion to conduct first major search

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: Malaysia falls short in lost jet mystery

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

Sombre air at usually happy arrival hall

Where airports are concerned, the arrival hall is usually its "happy place" - where loved ones are reunited and holiday makers begin new travel adventures.

Paul Thomas: Completely safe, and terrifying

As we've heard many times, we're safer on an aircraft than in our car or kitchen, and technological advances are making this truism ever truer. Yet every time an airliner goes down...