Accident investigators have cast doubt on the possibility that blackened debris found on Madagascar is evidence of a catastrophic fire aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 jet.

Data recovered from a home flight simulator owned by the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that someone had used the device to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean — where the missing jet is believed to have crashed, Australian officials have said.

Three pieces of debris that washed ashore in Mozambique and Mauritius will be examined in Australia to see if they came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Malaysia says two more pieces of debris found in the Indian Ocean were "almost certainly" from Flight 370, which disappeared more than two years ago with 239 people on board.

Two pieces of debris discovered along the coast of Mozambique are "highly likely" to have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities have said.

Australia’s transportation chief said the location of debris on a beach in the southeast African nation of Mozambique was consistent with drift-modelling used to search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight, MH370.

It has been reported that a piece of wreckage from a Boeing 777 plane washed ashore on the coast of Mozambique may be from MH 370.

Most of a set of debris found in the Maldives was not from a plane and is unrelated to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, ministers have said.

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.

Chinese family members of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines flight reacted with anger and scepticism yesterday after Malaysia’s government said a piece of wing debris found on an Indian Ocean island last week was from the plane.

Families whose relatives disappeared aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 last year vented their frustration at conflicting signals from Malaysia and France over whether the finding of a plane part had been confirmed.

An aircraft wing fragment washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard, experts say.

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.

French and Malaysian investigators are meeting in Paris after the arrival of a wing fragment many hope will solve the mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

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.

Malaysian authorities say that plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island is from a Boeing 777, meaning it is likely from missing flight MH370.

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

Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the wreckage.

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

Search crews hunting for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in remote waters off western Australia have discovered a shipwreck, officials said.

Malaysia has said the search area for missing Flight 370 will be expanded by another 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 square miles) in the Indian Ocean if the airliner is not found by May.

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.

A call by Malaysia’s prime minister for the UN’s aviation agency to require real-time tracking of aircraft could create a market worth billions, write Alwyn Scott and Allison Martell

With Flight MH370 having been missing for over a month, lawyers are gearing up to fight for relatives seeking compensation. The US could be the battleground, writes Gillian Wong

As a robotic submarine dove into the ocean to look for lost Flight 370, angry Chinese relatives stormed out of a teleconference meeting to protest the Malaysian government for not addressing them in person.

A robotic submarine looking for the lost Malaysian jet has continued its second seabed search as up to 14 planes are taking to the skies for some of the final sweeps of the Indian Ocean for floating debris.

Malaysia’s government has begun investigating civil aviation and military authorities to determine why opportunities to identify and track Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were missed in the chaotic hours after it vanished, two officials said.

A ship searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet has detected two more underwater signals, raising hopes the wreckage of the plane will be spotted soon, the man in charge of the search said.

Australia sent planes and ships to investigate signals detected by a Chinese ship in the hunt for a missing Malaysian jet, saying they matched black box beacons and were an “important and encouraging lead”.

A US navy “black box” detector made its debut in the hunt for flight MH370 but Australia’s search chief warned it was crunch time as the box’s signal is set to expire soon.

Australia’s prime minister said yesterday that he was hopeful clues will emerge soon to help find Flight 370 though searchers again failed to find jet debris.

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.

Search planes joined a freighter to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected possible pieces from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

Efforts to locate objects picked up on satellite pictures, in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, are being hampered by bad weather.

Even before someone at the controls calmly said the last words heard from the missing Malaysian jetliner, one of the Boeing 777’s communications systems had already been disabled, authorities said yesterday, adding to suspicions that one or both of the pilots were involved in the disappearance of the flight.

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has said that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner’s communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours.