An Air Force Orion has located the last crew member from a Chinese vessel damaged by fire.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion has found the last crew member overboard from the Chinese fishing vessel Jin Xiang 6, which had been damaged by fire. Photo: Supplied / NZDF
The plane discovered the vessel while on a routine fisheries patrol yesterday about 400 nautical miles west of Tuvalu.
Defence says its crew has located the man who went overboard the Jin Xiang 6.
He was clinging to a buoy, near where the vessel was discovered, and a life raft was dropped to him, it said.