A tourist’s drone has been seized in in Tongariro National Park where they are forbidden.
Air traffic control organisation Airways New Zealand says it is concerned about an increasing number of drone sightings in controlled airspace.
Air New Zealand has called for harsher penalties after a drone came so close to a 777-200 on its approach to Auckland Airport that pilots feared it had been ingested into one of the plane’s engines.
Police are reminding drone operators of their responsibility to comply with Civil Aviation rules after two reported incidents near Auckland Aiport on Sunday evening.