A pilot who was taken hostage by rebels in the forests of West Papua has sent a heartbreaking message to his wife and daughter - one year after he was taken captive.Philip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old former Jetstar pilot, appears gaunt and pale in a chilling new hostage video.Sporting a scraggly beard, the dishevelled pilot says: 'It's me,' with a nervous chuckle, before adding a few more words of encouragement to his wife Maria and six-year-old son Jacob.
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