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.

A crisis management expert has defended Malaysia Airlines' decision to send news about missing flight MH370 to relatives of crew and passengers via text message.

They continue to look for a needle in a haystack, but four weeks after Flight MH370 disappeared, searchers still can't find the haystack.

The Malaysian authorities have insisted that "someone on the plane" was responsible for the disappearance of Flight MH370.

Malaysia Airlines is introducing new security measures - including an extra crew member inside the cockpit - following the disappearance of Flight MH370.

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Western Australia could take years, a senior US Navy official said.

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

Objects seen by a RNZAF crew may have no connection to MH370, but the head of NZ's Joint Forces says staff are getting good results from 'difficult and demanding' work.

For the relatives of the 239 passengers and crew, the failure to retrieve a single piece of debris to date is excruciating.

Search teams were last night scouring the area where a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion made a potentially crucial breakthrough in the hunt for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.

An Air Force Iroquois helicopter will resume the search this morning for an Auckland man's missing biplane.

New Zealand pilots have been permanently grounded after testing revealed concerns about their medical fitness to fly, with some suspended because of depression, the aviation regulator has confirmed.

Bad weather has forced searchers for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to suspend operations for the day, for the second time this week.

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.