Crew from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft have found two men adrift in the Pacific, four days after two fishermen were reported missing in Kiribati. File photo / Supplied
Kiwis have come to the rescue of two Kiribati men adrift on a boat in the Pacific.
Crew of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion surveillance aircraft spotted the men on a 5m fishing boat four days after they were reported missing.
Group Captain Daniel Hunt, the Acting
Air Component Commander, said two vessels in the area had been contacted and asked to pick up the two men. That was expected to occur early this evening.
"After refuelling in Tarawa, the Orion will return to the area to help facilitate the rescue," he said.
"We have not yet established radio contact with the men but it is likely that they are ones we have been looking for."
