Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma — ...

Philip Mehrtens, the New Zealand pilot held hostage by separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, has appeared in a video saying he is “alive and well,” as concerns grow for ...

Mehrtens was captured after landing a commercial Susi Air charter flight at Paro Airport in the remote highlands of the Nduga regency last week, with the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian government handed over Susi Air pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens, who was in captivity by the separatist group led by Egianus Kogoya since February 7, 2023, to the New ...

Mehrtens was abducted by the TPN-PB on February 7 last year when he flew a small single propeller plane for the Indonesian airline Susi Air to Paro in the Papua highlands, carrying five Papuan ...

Philip Mark Mehrtens, 38, ... After some time in New Zealand flying for Jetstar, the couple returned to Indonesia and Mehrtens took a job flying with Susi Air.

Philip Mehrtens, a Susi Air pilot, was taken hostage by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TNPB) on Feb. 7 after landing in the remote region of Nduga. Sign up here.

Mr Mehrtens was working for an Indonesian aviation company on February 7 last year when he was abducted after landing his single-engine Susi Air plane on a remote airstrip in the mountainous ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The West Papua National Liberation Army-Free Papua Organization (TPNPB-OPM) announced a delay of the proposed release of Susi Air pilot Philip Mark Mehrtens.Spokesperson Sebby ...