Aid flights touch down in devastated Tonga

By Dominic Giannini and Andrew Brown
Updated January 20 2022 - 4:41pm, first published 4:37pm
Chinook helicopters have been loaded onto HMAS Adelaide, which is set to leave Brisbane for Tonga.
Chinook helicopters have been loaded onto HMAS Adelaide, which is set to leave Brisbane for Tonga.

Australian and New Zealand planes carrying humanitarian aid have landed in Tonga after volcanic ash was cleared from an airport runway.

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