Search and rescue divers have found the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed last week and hope to find the jet’s black box in the near vicinity.

An Australian navy ship has detected new underwater signals consistent with aircraft "black boxes", says the chief of the MH370 search.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced the plane that disappeared more than two weeks ago crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

With no conclusive evidence of foulplay and doubts whether nations would share military tracking data, investigations appear to be at an impasse.

Malaysia’s military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area south of the Thai holiday island of Phuket.

The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief has said, as a massive air and sea search continues.

The department of international relations says no South Africans were on the Malaysia Airlines jet, which vanished with 239 people on board.

There were no survivors from the plane wreckage of two aircraft that was found on Mamotswiri peak on Tuesday, police have said.

The wreckage of the two aircraft that went missing in George’s Valley near Tzaneen has been found, Search and Rescue South Africa has told media.

The search for two aircraft carrying 13 people that went missing in George’s Valley near Tzaneen resumed on Tuesday morning despite rainy conditions.