A training exercise by a rescue helicopter has caused some confusion in Northland this morning after police, who received reports of a chopper down found it had not crashed at all.
Police received a report this morning that a helicopter had crashed near the Ngunguru Sandspit, 26 km northeast of Whangarei.
A police spokesperson said, however, that inquiries by police had revealed that there had been no crash.
The Northland Emergency Services Trust (NEST) rescue chopper team had been carrying out training in the area at the time.