{"id":463047,"date":"2022-01-21T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T02:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463047"},"modified":"2022-01-21T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:05:38","slug":"aid-flight-lands-in-tonga-phones-partially-restored-as-airport-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aid-flight-lands-in-tonga-phones-partially-restored-as-airport-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid flight lands in Tonga; phones partially restored as airport reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aid flight from New Zealand carrying humanitarian supplies arrived in Tonga on Thursday, five days after the South Pacific island nation was hit by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that devastated communities and spoiled most of its drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules had landed in Tonga&#8217;s Fua&#8217;amotu International Airport, a defence spokesperson said, after a blanket of volcanic ash was finally cleared off the runway. <\/p>\n<p>An Australian Globemaster military transport aircraft is also due to arrive. &#8220;The aircraft is carrying humanitarian aid and disaster relief supplies, including water containers, kits for temporary shelters, generators, hygiene and family kits, and communications equipment,&#8221; New Zealand&#8217;s foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aid flight from New Zealand carrying humanitarian supplies arrived in Tonga on Thursday, five days after the South Pacific island nation was hit by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that devastated communities and spoiled most of its drinking water. A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules had landed in Tonga&#8217;s Fua&#8217;amotu International Airport, a defence spokesperson said, after a blanket of volcanic ash was finally cleared off the runway. An Australian Globemaster military transport aircraft is also due to arrive. &#8220;The aircraft is carrying humanitarian aid and disaster relief supplies, including water containers, kits for temporary shelters, generators, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}