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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.

Auckland Airport evacuated
Auckland Airport's domestic terminal was temporarily evacuated this morning after a fire sprinkler was set off.

Pilot could still be alive, brother says
The brother of pilot Daroish Kraidy, whose plane is missing off the Coromandel coast, says he may yet be found alive.

Billy Adams: Seaplane fascination taking on eerie significance
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?"

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.

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.

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

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.

'We are all dreadfully sad'
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.

Pandemonium as relatives notified by text
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.

Plane left on auto-pilot
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.

Oz, Chinese ships rush to retrieve new objects
White, rectangular objects were spotted last night in the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft.

Hopes high amid gruelling search
"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.

Passenger's mother: My heart is broken
She is the woman whose cries of despair captured the unimaginable agony of the families waiting for news of the 239 passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

Skydive tragedy: Long wait for answers
The families of two NZers killed in a fiery Queensland plane crash have been told by air accident investigators to wait for more than three weeks for answers.

New images of wreckage?
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.

Flight MH370: Rival nations join forces
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.

Plane's captain 'got mystery call'
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.

Billy Adams: Searching for MH370? You're sure to start seeing things
If these photos are anything to go by, you have virtually no chance of seeing a broken-up airliner, writes Billy Adams.

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

Two dead in small plane crash
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''.

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

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