The New Zealand Defence Force maintains it can still offer disaster relief to remote Pacific Islands, despite all three aircraft involved in Operation Tropic Twilight breaking down this week.
More than 300 New Zealand Defence Force staff are in Tuvalu, about 3700km north of New Zealand for the exercise, which assumes the low-lying islands have been hammered by a tropical cyclone.
But efforts to fly in supplies and personnel have been hampered by mechanical faults with aircraft.
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A RNZAF UH-1 Iroquois helicopter in service for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Photo / supplied
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