F&P boss Stuart Broadhurst says demand is falling for the products made in Auckland and it will not re-invest in the site.

Overnight developments: Military radar shows aircraft changed course; still no signs of wreckage or reasons for its disappearance; search in confusion and disarray as authorities contradict each other; Iranians identified as stolen passport users; co-pilot previously invited passengers into cockpit.

Design of the current flag symbolises a colonial and post-colonial era whose time has passed, PM says.