'Etuate Lavulavu

This after they failed to show for a magistrate's court session on Thursday.

The couple have been charged with using a document to defraud in 2017, when they quarried land in Vava'u despite the landowner saying he had not signed a letter giving the Lavulavus' permission to do so.

The leader of the opposition PTOA Party, Semisi Sika, who was Deputy Prime Minister in the previous government, ws one of the witnesses being called.

Minister of Infrastructure, 'Etuate Lavulavu told Radio and Television Tonga News that despite a flat tyre to the Real Tonga plane at Kaufana Airport in Eua, the plane should not have been ordered not to fly.

The Solicitor General confirmed that Civil Aviation has grounded the plane.

However, the Minister said Government will wait 14 days for the engineer report before deciding on the fate of the Y12 aircraft. In the meantime, the plane will continue flying, said Minister Lavulavu.

Radio Tonga said the plane was empty when the incident happened at Kaufana Airport.