A British woman sailing near Indonesia at the time MH370 vanished says she saw a plane 'burning' and billowing smoke before it crashed.

A Kiwi who has 15 years’ experience in ocean searches could be leading the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Australia's lead agency during the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airline's jet appears to back US Navy officer's claims 'pings' heard were not from the flight's black boxes.

An expert's claim that the "pings" at the centre of search for flight MH370 did not come from the jet's black boxes is "speculative and premature", a US Navy spokesman says.

The family of MH370 pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah have spoken for the first time in a bid to clear up "untrue" rumours about his involvement in the disappearance.

The introduction of constant tracking of commercial aircraft during the whole journey of missing flight MH370 has been raised by Malaysian authorities in a preliminary report.

An international panel of experts will re-examine all data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysian jet.

Mr Monk, whose son Michael was among the 29 miners killed in the Pike River explosion, was reflecting on the agony expressed by Danica Weeks over the fate of her husband Paul, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

After a week of optimism over four underwater signals believed to be coming from the missing Malaysian plane the sea has gone quiet.

Fertility Associates, the country's largest fertility services provider, has opened its first clinic in Malaysia.

A final unexplained signal emitted by the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was tracked to the same point in the Indian Ocean at which authorities believe they have found the jet, it can be revealed.

Flight 370 may have been "purposely" flown around Indonesian airspace on its way to the southern Indian Ocean to avoid radar detection, a government source has claimed.

The black boxes holding the key to the mystery of MH370 will fall silent as early as this weekend, and a frantic last-chance underwater search has been started.

When Danica Weeks first heard that the Malaysia Airlines flight her husband Paul was on was missing.

I'm constantly startled when big First-World companies respond to foreseeable crises with full-scale ineptitude, writes Jack Tame.

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.

Family and friends are comforting Danica Weeks after it was confirmed today the Malaysian Airlines flight carrying her Kiwi husband Paul has been lost in the Indian Ocean.

When the news finally arrived in Beijing, it was not from a spokesperson, or even in a language the relatives could understand. Phones began to beep inside the conference room at the Lido hotel, receiving a text message in English.

Following the confirmation that Flight MH370 has crashed with no survivors, academic experts in various fields attempt to make sense of the conclusion to this tragedy.

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been called off for the day due to bad weather conditions.

White, rectangular objects were spotted last night in the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft.

"You want so badly to see something that your eyes start playing tricks on you", writes Herald reporter Anna Leask on board an Orion hunting for the missing jet.

She is the woman whose cries of despair captured the unimaginable agony of the families waiting for news of the 239 passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

French satellites have made the latest sighting of possible aircraft wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean, as sources say there was only a 2-min window for a hijacking.

If these photos are anything to go by, you have virtually no chance of seeing a broken-up airliner, writes Billy Adams.

The captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 received a two-minute call shortly before take-off from a mystery woman.