Vietnamese airlift orphans land in the UK – archive, 7 April 1975
7 April 1975: Flight organised by the Daily Mail sees 105 orphaned children evacuated from Saigon
The mercy airlift of 105 Vietnamese orphans landed at Heathrow Airport-London early today among growing doubts about the wisdom of future operations of a similar nature.
The flight – in a British Midlands Airways Boeing 707 – had been organised by the Daily Mail. A fleet of coaches stood by at the airport to take the children to a special centre at Haslemere, Surrey, set up by Project Vietnam Orphans.