Air NZ says it's business as usual, despite an inquiry into a crash in San Francisco finding the complexity of the Boeing 777 was to blame.

Malaysian police believe if the disappearance of MH370 was the act of human intervention then the likely perpetrator was the pilot.

The wife of New Zealander Paul Weeks, who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 when it vanished, will reject an offer of compensation.

The 100-day search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has not yet explored the area most likely to be the final resting place of the plane because it was diverted by bogus "black box" signals, according to Inmarsat, the British satellite firm.

The former chief executive of ill-fated Kiwi Airlines says the disappearance of MH370 wasn’t an accident.

It's been revealed the Malaysian Government has spend just a fraction of what Australia has paid in the search for missing flight MH370.

Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said.

A Northland writer has apologised to the widow of a Kiwi missing on MH370 after she took offence at a book he's penned about the jet's disappearance.

The widow of NZer Paul Weeks, who was on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 when it vanished, has hit out at the Kiwi author of a new novella.

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

A man killed in the Carterton balloon crash had been relishing life after receiving news he was clear of cancer only weeks before the fatal trip, an inquest has been told.

A visiting plane on a training flight landed safely at the Greymouth aerodrome about 12.15pm today after reporting problems with the landing gear.

A young couple who jumped from a burning hot air balloon basket had their whole lives ahead of them and thought the pilot they were flying with was the "safest" in NZ.

A witness has described hearing a balloon pilot tell passengers to "duck down" before screams of panic were heard from the basket.

A man who worked with the pilot found to have cannabis in his system after his hot air balloon crashed in Carterton, killing 10, had no idea he smoked cannabis.

More than two years after a ballooning accident claimed the lives of their loved ones, relatives are reliving the details of the ill-fated day at a coroner's inquest.

A gruelling week lies ahead for families of the Carterton hot air balloon crash victims as they again hear evidence of how their loved ones died.

The wife of a New Zealander missing on Malaysia Airlines MH370 is spearheading a new victims' group pushing authorities to "share and release" information about the ill-fated flight

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.

Paul Weeks will be honoured with a military service medal at a memorial service in Christchurch, his family has been told.

For a moment when Danica Weeks wakes up, she thinks the last seven weeks have all been a bad dream.

Two Westland families are reeling after the death of two close friends in a helicopter crash.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott was to update China's President Xi Jinping on the latest developments in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 before he left Beijing last night.

A search is underway for the two occupants of a crashed helicopter on the West Coast.

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.