{"id":430039,"date":"2026-05-16T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/430039\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:09:09","slug":"auckland-to-tauranga-flight-redirected-after-sky-lanterns-floated-into-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/430039\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland to Tauranga flight redirected after sky lanterns floated into airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>16 May, 2026 02:34 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Sky lanterns caused a Tauranga flight to redivert back to Auckland. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A late-night flight from Auckland bound to Tauranga was turned around after lanterns floating into the airspace sparked safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to reports at 9pm yesterday of \u201cfloating lanterns\u201d that were ending up in the flight path of incoming flight NZ5145.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police told the Herald they were aware<br \/>\n         of the incident.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice were called by Air Traffic Control around 9pm with a report that floating lanterns had been released from an unknown location in Tauranga, that were ending up in the flight path. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice responded to the area where the lanterns were thought to be coming from, however no one was seen and no further lanterns had been released.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 16 May, 2026 02:34 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,25352,665,51,55337,10709,70,65295,44192,71,296,65975,8526,111,43,139,69,92873,6302,8861,8214,1227,61,19054],"class_list":["post-430039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-airspace","tag-around","tag-auckland","tag-bound","tag-concerns","tag-flight","tag-floated","tag-floating","tag-from","tag-into","tag-lanterns","tag-latenight","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-redirected","tag-safety","tag-sky","tag-sparked","tag-tauranga","tag-to","tag-turned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}