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MH370: Is it a cover-up?
Malaysia's Government is deliberately concealing information that would help explain what happened to missing flight MH370, the country's Opposition Leader has claimed.

MH370: Devastating texts defended
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.

'Hardcore' cartel faces $3.1m penalty
The Commerce Commission and Swiss air freight company Kuehne + Nagel have agreed it should be penalised $3.1m for "hardcore cartel conduct" deliberately hidden using gardening codewords and ran for five years, the High

Peter Jackson's jet relaying messages
Sir Peter Jackson's personal jet is helping to relay messages between various military aircraft searching for the missing Malaysia Airline passenger plane, the Royal New Zealand Air Force says.

Video: Inside a flight simulator
At north of $10 million, Air New Zealand's new 787 flight simulator could be the county's most expensive video game.

'Someone on plane' is key to mystery
The Malaysian authorities have insisted that "someone on the plane" was responsible for the disappearance of Flight MH370.

Boost in airline seats for Queenstown
Queenstown is gearing up for a bumper winter season with airlines pouring more seats into the resort town whose airport is erecting a marquee to handle the influx.

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

MH370: Air tragedy close to home
When Danica Weeks first heard that the Malaysia Airlines flight her husband Paul was on was missing.

Ads invade flight time
If advertising makes you sick, brace yourself: on some local flights, the motion-sickness bags now feature ads.

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

Middle Earth tourism up
A successful Middle- earth marketing campaign appears to be driving a resurgence in Western visitors to New Zealand, according to a new report.

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

Flight MH370: Hopes dashed again
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.

MH370: Malaysia Airlines facing lawsuit
A Chicago law firm is preparing for what could be a multimillion dollar lawsuit following the Malaysia Airlines tragedy.

Flight MH370: Debris hampers search
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.

Text message pain for family
Danica Weeks learned her husband Paul had died on flight MH370 via text message.

MH370: Expert backs suicide theory
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.

Heartbreak for 'orphaned' parents
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.

Desperate search resumes
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.

Mystery of MH370 plane's final signal
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".

Did pilot take a 'last joyride'?
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.

All hope disappears as family grieves
It was the news Paul Weeks' family had been dreading.

Aircraft fly through black spots
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.

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

Relief Kiwi air crew ready to take over search
The Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel stationed in Perth to help search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are due for a break

Drunken passenger banned from airline
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.