The Russian maker of the Buk air defence missile system says it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile.

Barbara Scully is, by her own admission, a full-blown Irish Mammy who travels half way round the world to see her Australian-based daughter. This time round, the family all met up in the Indonesian island of Bali for an alternative

Etihad Airways has signalled it would be willing to sell its stake in Aer Lingus if the Government backs the offer made by International Airlines Group (IAG) for the Dublin-based carrier.

Malaysia Airlines officials were struggling to restore the embattled carrier’s website after it was hacked by a group proclaiming support for the Islamic State group.

Crash investigators will publish a preliminary report today on the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine.

Malaysia Airlines has renamed a promotional campaign asking people what countries are on their “bucket list” to visit after acknowledging it was inappropriate given the two deadly disasters it has suffered this year

Fighting has stopped an international police team from reaching the crash site of a Malaysian Airlines plane for a second day running.

The parents of three West Australian children who were killed with their grandfather in the MH17 plane disaster say they are living in "a hell beyond hell".

Edel Mahady’s elderly mother was listening to the six o’clock news last Thursday when she heard that a plane had crashed on its way to Kuala Lumpur.

A Dutch cyclist has unbelievably avoided being on both tragic Malaysian Airlines flights MH17 and MH370, after being originally scheduled to fly on the two doomed aircraft.

Schiphol Airport is the wrong place to be for family and friends of those who died on Malaysian flight MH17.

The United States said it could not rule out Russian help to separatists in Ukraine in firing an SA-11 surface-to-air missile that likely downed a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board.

Malaysian Airlines is still trying to determine the nationality of 18 people on board flight MH17.

Almost incredibly, Malaysia Airlines finds itself at the centre of a world aviation disaster for the second time this year.

Up to 80 children were feared to be among the 295 passengers and crew who died after the Malaysian Airways plane was shot down over Ukraine yesterday afternoon.

The Interfax agency has said a Malaysian passenger jet carrying 295 people has crashed in Ukraine.

The most likely crash site of the missing Malaysian Airlines jet has yet to be searched, a UK satellite company has claimed.

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

The Chinese State news agency has said a Chinese patrol vessel has discovered a pulse radio signal in the Indian Ocean.

A French satellite scanning the Indian Ocean for remnants of a missing jetliner found a possible plane debris field containing 122 objects, a top Malaysian official said yesterday, calling it “the most credible lead that we have”.

A Chinese plane crew spotted a white, square-shaped object in an area identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner.

Pádraig Harrington’s Masters aspirations look more distant after he slumped to an equal worst PGA Tour round in shooting 80 on the final day of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.

Malaysian authorities have defended their handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 – even as they acknowledged they are unsure which direction the plane was travelling in when it disappeared.

Investigators say an oil slick in the South China Sea is not from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.

Two names listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand, foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna have confirmed.

Dublin-based international travel software company Datalex cut its losses by over 30% last year, while growing revenue by 4%.

Qantas has said talks with a Malaysian company to set up a new airline in Asia have broken down.

Three airlines have reached financial settlements with a New Zealand regulator for participating in a price-fixing scheme in the global air freight market, the regulator said.

DUBLIN-based specialist tour operator Croatia Tours is one of the few Irish travel companies that can claim to be experiencing an increase in demand for the 2010 summer holiday season.

Jesper Parnevik will know exactly who to complain to if anything goes wrong in this week’s Scandinavian Masters – and he might even get a sympathetic hearing.