Restored Australian Navy aircraft allows emotional reunion for Vietnamese refugees, 40 years after dramatic rescue

A group of Vietnamese refugees and their families have reconnected with a restored aircraft near south of Sydney, 40 years after their miraculous rescue from a “floundering” fishing boat that was helping them flee Vietnam’s communist regime.

In June 1981, crew on the Australian Navy’s HMAS Melbourne were flying in an anti-submarine patrol plane, a Grumman S-2G Tracker 851, when they helped…