Live updates on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished en route to Beijing with 239 people aboard.

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.

Jetstar will quit flying from Auckland to Singapore from July, saying the route is not performing as well as it had hoped.

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.

An New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion will today search for for anything floating in the sea that may indicate where a missing Malaysian passenger plane might be.

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.

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

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.

The wife of Kiwi engineer Paul Weeks - missing since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared six days ago - has given an emotional interview to CNN's Piers Morgan, detailing how her husband wanted his son to have his wedding ring.

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.

A US Airways plane has been evacuated after suffering gear failure at Philadelphia International Airport.

Little Lincoln Weeks has a map on his wall showing where his father, Kiwi Paul Weeks, was going to live and work in Mongolia before his plane went missing.

US investigators suspect a missing Malaysian jetliner flew on for four hours once it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to the Wall St Journal.

A New Zealand oil rig worker has claimed to have seen the missing Malaysian Airlines plane burning in the sky.

Malaysian leaders fronted a news conference in Kuala Lumpur last night and admitted that, five days into the search for Flight 370, they still have no idea what's happened to the jet.

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.