Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old pilot from Christchurch, was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air when he ...

New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens has been freed from more than one-and-a-half years in captivity in Indonesia’s Papua, the ...

The task force picked up Mehrtens in a village of Nduga district this morning, according to security officers.

A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia has been freed by separatist ...