Air Vanuatu Twin Otter elevator cable snap
From the Vanuatu media: An Air Vanuatu (NF) Twin Otter on a domestic flight made a safe landing with 19 pax or pob when the elevator cable snapped just moments before landing at an outer island airstrip (Walaha, Ambae). The cable had been fitted new just 6 months ago. If the aircraft had been at higher altitude and not so close to touchdown the result could have been catastrophic, and in a similar incident in Tahiti several years ago.
NZ aviation accident people are part of the investigation.