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.

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.

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.

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.

Family and friends are comforting Danica Weeks after it was confirmed today the Malaysian Airlines flight carrying her Kiwi husband Paul has been lost in the Indian Ocean.

When the news finally arrived in Beijing, it was not from a spokesperson, or even in a language the relatives could understand. Phones began to beep inside the conference room at the Lido hotel, receiving a text message in English.

Pilots have been reminded of the dangers of cockpit distractions after a flight into Queenstown was left on auto-pilot and passed below minimum low flying safety levels.

Following the confirmation that Flight MH370 has crashed with no survivors, academic experts in various fields attempt to make sense of the conclusion to this tragedy.

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been called off for the day due to bad weather conditions.

White, rectangular objects were spotted last night in the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft.

"You want so badly to see something that your eyes start playing tricks on you", writes Herald reporter Anna Leask on board an Orion hunting for the missing jet.

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.

The last contact with a small plane that crashed in Hawkes Bay yesterday, killing both men on board, suggested nothing was wrong.

Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club president Bruce Govenlock says the deaths of his friend and a UK pilot in today's plane crash were a "terrible tragedy''.

Two expat Kiwis who were going skydiving are dead after a fiery plane crash in Queensland, Australia, claimed the lives of everyone on board.

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will continue indefinitely in the ocean off West Australia, but authorities want to be clear the effort could be fruitless.

Five people are dead after a light plane carrying a group of skydivers crashed and burst into flame at an airfield north of Brisbane.

The deep ocean where planes and ships are seeking signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane is so treacherous any wreckage recovery would be extremely challenging.

Media from around the world were gathered outside the RAAF Pearce Base north of Perth last night.

Searchers for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have spent a second fruitless day hunting for wreckage in the Indian Ocean.