New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon Flies to Australia on Commercial Flight after Air Force Plane Gets Grounded

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New Zealand’s prime minister was forced to take a commercial flight to Australia for high-level meetings Tuesday, because of a landing gear fault on his air force plane. Christopher Luxon switched to an early morning scheduled flight out of Wellington, his office said, because of a last-minute problem with a New Zealand Defence Force Boeing 757 aircraft. Luxon’s party had to transfer to a flight on Air New Zealand, the airline he led for seven years as chief executive before switching to politics. The prime minister was flying to Melbourne to attend meetings with leaders of Southeast Asian nations and...