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.

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

There is no doubt that inventive speculations bloom in such conditions, writes Toby Manhire. They might be wild on old-fashioned talkback radio, wilder still in the online forums, but mainstream news platforms have not exactly been immune.

The NZ Air Force are playing a key role in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with possible debris spotted in water west of Australia.

The FBI is examining deleted data from the missing plane's pilot's simulator while angry relatives accuse authorities of hiding the truth from them.

Masking the jets position from the eyes of civilian aviation teams would have been as simple as turning a knob. "Just switch it to the left and the transponder is off," said Captain Amin Said.

Eleven days after contact was lost with Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, there has been minimal progress in determining precisely what happened or where the plane ended up.

The families of passengers missing on Flight 370 for more than 11 days are being pushed out of their Kuala Lumpur hotel, as they wait for news of their loved ones.

A survey of New Zealand travellers finds a strong preference for the national airline but this would drop markedly if it was no longer Kiwi owned.

The disappearance of Flight MH370 is arguably the biggest cliffhanger since Americans crowded around their TVs to find out who shot J.R.

Auckland Airport is urging the Government to consider closely the threat posed to competition.

The turn that diverted the missing Malaysia Airlines plane off its flight path was programmed into the aircraft's computer navigation system, it has been revealed

Here is a Q & A about the lost Boeing 777 and the wider implications of the biggest mystery in 21st-century aviation.

Sources tell the Herald a lack of cell or internet communication from those on board a missing jet indicate it could be in "remote, non-friendly territory".

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

The family of Kiwi Paul Weeks are hanging on to slim hopes he could still be alive after it was revealed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew for more than seven hours.

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

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...

The US Navy has ordered a ship to the Indian Ocean to search for a missing Malaysian airliner amid reports the plane kept "pinging" a satellite after losing radar contact.

People are asking how a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board can simply 'disappear' but it's not the first aviation mystery of its kind.

The two men who boarded flight MH370 with stolen passports were asylum seekers in search of a better life.

A crowdsourcing effort to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines plane using satellite imagery overloaded the computer network with an "unprecedented" amount of traffic.

The top five developments on the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the investigation into its disappearance.

Herald reporter Lincoln Tan flew Malaysia Airways to KL, talking to crew about their missing colleagues and passengers about their concerns.

Simon Calder of The Independent answers some of the top questions about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

New Zealand border authorities concede not every traveller's passport is checked with Interpol to determine it isn't stolen.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 lost contact with air traffic controllers at 2:40am local time (5:40am AEDT) on Saturday after it left Kuala Lumpur and headed for Beijing. Since then, there has been no sign of the plane that carried 239 people on board.