A teenager may have found part of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on a beach in Mozambique.

Families of 12 passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have sued the carrier and the Malaysian government.

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Australian authorities have said new analysis confirms they have probably been searching in the right place for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane which vanished with 239 people aboard in 2014.

Russia has appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organisation to open a new probe into last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.

Investigators believe passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 could have been conscious for a minute or more as the plane crashed to the ground.

The Dutch Safety Board has identified the area from which, it said, the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was launched.

A French prosecutor says a piece of wing, found washed up on an island in the Indian Ocean, has been formally identified as part of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Investigators in the Netherlands say they have found fragments of a suspected Russian missile system at the site where flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine.

Malaysia’s claim that more debris linked to missing flight MH370 has washed up on an Indian Ocean island has been disputed by French officials.

Barnacles encrusted on plane debris that washed up on the French island of Reunion might unravel the mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared last year with 239 passengers and crew.

An object found on the French island of Reunion has been confirmed as “a domestic ladder” and is not a plane part, amid reports that a new piece of plane debris possibly from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was found on the island.

A wing flap suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has arrived at a French military testing facility where it will be analysed by experts.

A piece of wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island has been confirmed as coming from a Boeing 777, according to Malaysia's deputy transport minister.

A wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Debris, which appears to be from an airplane, has been found in the Indian Ocean today.

A top Russian aviation official says leaks of the draft report on the Malaysian jet crash over eastern Ukraine are meant to put pressure on investigators.

Newly appointed Malaysia Airlines boss and former Aer Lingus chief Christoph Mueller has said that the Asian carrier is “technically bankrupt”, underlining the case for a restructuring to cut a third of jobs, scrap some routes, and review its long-haul fleet.

Loss-making Malaysia Airlines is set to undergo a complete overhaul as it is restructured into a new company, with a rebranding that will be unveiled next week and changes planned to its fleet and network strategies.

An official report a year after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has done little to solve the mystery of the missing Boeing 777, aviation experts have concluded.

The battery of an underwater locator beacon had expired more than a year before the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished last March, the first comprehensive report into the mystery has revealed.

One year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown— fuelling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.

Relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine have visited a Dutch air base to view the wreckage of the plane.

An international team of investigators in eastern Ukraine has for the first time reached the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The family of an Irish woman who died aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MHI7 have said she "would not want anyone to waste time on hating" those responsible for downing the aircraft.

Malaysia Airlines is telling relatives of passengers on Flight 370 they should move out of hotels and return home to wait for news on the search for the plane.

Naval vessels carrying sophisticated deep-sea black box detectors are rushing to the site of an “important and encouraging” lead in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner.

No debris spotted in an area off the west coast of Australia has been recovered, a Malaysian minister involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has said, adding he hoped for some news soon.

Four military search planes have been dispatched to try to determine whether two large objects bobbing in a remote part of the Indian Ocean are debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

Confusion surrounds the fate of the missing Malaysian airliner as aviation chiefs refused to confirm military claims that the Boeing 777 changed course over the sea.

Vietnamese authorities said today they detected the last signal from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight off Vietnam's south-west coast over the South China Sea.