NZ pilot released 19 months after being kidnapped in Indonesia

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been released by separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive Papua region, 19 months after his kidnapping. Mehrtens was taken hostage while working as a pilot at a remote airstrip in Paro, Papua in February last year. Rebels stormed his single-engine plane, which was carrying five passengers, after it landed on a small runway in Paro.