A wing flap that washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

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.

A sprawling undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended further south based on new satellite analysis.

The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane will shift farther south of the most recent suspected crash site in a remote stretch of Indian Ocean.

The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner suffered a further setback after Australian officials said wreckage from the aircraft was not on the seabed in the area they had identified.

Debris that washed ashore in south-west Australia is not from the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, experts have said.

Unidentified material that has washed ashore in south-western Australia is being examined for any link to the lost Malaysian plane, authorities have said.

A teenager has described how he took the controls of a light plane for more than half an hour after the pilot passed out during a joy flight over rural Australia.

PILOTS of a crippled Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo struggled with more than a dozen system errors after an engine blew apart and landed the plane in Singapore with barely any runway to spare, an Australian investigation showed.

Qantas has launched preliminary legal action against Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the engine that exploded on one of its A380 superjumbos in mid-air last month.

Tests uncovered oil leaks in three Rolls-Royce engines on Qantas’ grounded Airbus A380s, the airline’s chief executive officer said today, as engineers tried to zero in on the cause of an engine failure on board one of the carrier’s superjumbo jets last week.

A FAULTY part or design issue may have caused the severe damage to an engine that forced a Qantas Airways Airbus A380 to make an emergency landing in Singapore, Qantas’s boss said yesterday.

QANTAS Airways and Singapore Airlines suspended flights of Airbus A380 superjumbos yesterday after engine failure forced an emergency landing in Singapore.

A coal carrier which ran aground on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been stabilised and a fuel oil leak contained within a boom, helping to minimise damage to the world’s largest coral reef, a maritime official said today.

An Airbus 330-200 like the one involved in the Air France disaster was forced to make an emergency landing on a Pacific island after a small fire broke out in the cockpit.

TWO violent mid-air plunges by an airliner that seriously injured 13 passengers may have been caused by an on-board mobile phone signal, investigators said yesterday.

Two violent mid-air plunges by an airliner that seriously injured 13 passengers may have been caused by an on-board mobile phone signal, investigators said today.

A faulty computer was today blamed as the likely cause of a Qantas airliner’s midair plunges last week.

THIRTY-SIX passengers and crew were injured, some seriously, in the mid-air drama that forced a Qantas jetliner to make an emergency landing, the Australian carrier and police said yesterday.

Air safety investigators said the “sudden and complete release” of a pressurised oxygen bottle caused the explosion that blew a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas jet last month, forcing an emergency landing in the Philippines capital, Manila.

The pilot of a Manila-bound Qantas jetliner made an emergency landing at Sydney Airport when fluid began leaking from the plane, Australian authorities said.

THE Qantas jumbo jet hit by a mid-air explosion lost critical pilot instruments in the blast, it emerged yesterday.

Part of an oxygen cylinder exploded through the floor of the passenger cabin of a Qantas jumbo jet last week, an air safety investigator said today.

Australian airline Qantas moved to inspect oxygen cylinders on its entire fleet today as investigators focused on a missing tank as the suspected cause of a mid-air blast that tore a hole in a jumbo jet carrying more than 350 people.

Australian investigators were exploring the possibility today that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on the Qantas jumbo jet from London that was forced to plunge 20,000 feet and make an emergency landing in the Philippines.

Australian investigators today began examining a stricken Qantas jumbo jet that made a emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage.

Two British tourists and one from Ireland were among five skydivers killed when a plane crashed into a lake in eastern Australia shortly after take-off, police said today.

A high-speed train derailed in eastern Australia, injuring more than 120 passengers as its carriages slammed into trees and ploughed through fields alongside the tracks.

Two wealthy British-born tourists were killed today when their light plane crashed near the landing strip of a remote park in north-western Australia.

Failure by Australian airline Qantas to teach pilots how to land on wet runways was the main reason for the crash involving one of its jumbo jets in Bangkok, a report has concluded.