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.

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".

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.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel stationed in Perth to help search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are due for a break

Thousands of flights each year in and out of New Zealand fly through radar black spots relying only on scheduled long-range radio calls to track their position.

This year has proved to be a golden summer for both holiday-makers and Auckland tourism industry operators.

A drunken airline passenger who lit a cigarette and claimed to have an AK-47 in his bag has been fined $500 and banned from the airline for his return trip home.

A drunken passenger on a flight to New Zealand caused an alert yesterday by lighting up a cigarette in his seat then claiming he was carrying an AK-47 machinegun.

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.

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 MH370's missing passengers and crew are in limbo and will be confused as to how to act and feel about the situation until they get solid answers.

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.

Malaysian authorities are seeking diplomatic permission to look at whether missing Flight 370 flew under the radar to Taliban-controlled bases on Afghan border.