Monday, 21 December 2020, 9:37 am
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has successfully
completed two survey flights of Fiji and remains ready to
respond to those affected by Tropical Cyclone
Yasa.
The Category 5 Tropical Cyclone, which has now
been downgraded to a tropical low, has made its way through
the Fijian islands and is tracking away through open seas in
the South West Pacific.
A team from Headquarters Joint
Forces, responsible for coordinating the NZDF response,
deployed an NZDF C-130 Hercules from Base Auckland to
conduct an initial survey flight on Saturday 19
December.
For operational reasons, the surveillance
flights were conducted by an NZDF C-130 Hercules rather than