Seven people on two separate missing boats in the Pacific have been found and rescued by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF).
The crew on an Air Force P-3K2 Orion plane had spotted both vessels within 10 nautical miles of each other near the Pacific Island nation Kiribati. The two boats had gone missing in separate incidents.
On Monday, RNZAF responded to a request by the Rescue Coordination Centre NZ, on behalf of Rescue Coordination Centre Fiji and Kiribati, to search for a five-metre yellow hulled boat that was reported to have been lost at sea after leaving on a trip from Makin Island to Butaritari Island, Kiribati, on Friday….