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It's not every day that a helicopter lands in a paddock near you.
A family of south Auckland farmers came to the rescue of an Auckland Westpac Rescue helicopter crew when bad weather stranded it in their paddock.
The Wood family ventured out to the chopper and invited the five crew members home for tea and cheese toasties.
Farmer Tim Wood, who runs his elderly parents’ dairy runoff in Ararimu, says he thought the helicopter had broken down when it landed on the property on Friday morning.
But the crew explained that blustery winds made flying unsafe so they aborted their mission to a nearby car crash.
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