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Instead, she said she heard the captain say: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve received a call from search and rescue teams in Australia saying that there was a yacht that was sinking off the shore of Sydney. We’re the closest aircraft in the vicinity, and they’ve asked us to identify the location of the boat. It’s going to mean a slight detour.”

Thanks to extra fuel left on their plane and a pair of binoculars from a passenger, the crew of the Air Canada jetliner was credited with assisting in the rescue Monday of an Australian yacht adrift in the South Pacific.