R.N.Z.A.F. rescue flight
PA Auckland An R.N.Z.A.F. Hercules landed a doctor on remote Penrhyn Island at dawn yesterday to save the life of a woman in childbirth. The Whenuapai-based crew planned to take the woman to Rarotonga, but the doctor decided she was too ill to travel and performed emergency surgery on the northern Cooks island. The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs asked for the mercy flight at noon on Monday and the Hercules, with an Air Force medical team, was airborne an hour later. The aircraft, commanded by Flight Lieutenant Mark Owens, landed at Rarotonga at 5.30 p.m. (New Zealand time) and left with a Rarotongan obstetrician at 1.40 a.m., landing on Penrhyn’s rough airstrip at 4.15 a.m.
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