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The Skyvan airplane is grounded at the former Navy School of Mechanics, or ESMA. 60 Minutes For Miriam and Giancarlo there was one last assignment: bringing the Skyvan back ...
A cargo plane used by military henchmen during Argentina's "dirty war" to fly political opponents over the ocean and push them to their deaths has been brought back to the country.
Today, the British-made Skyvan airplane, now 50 years old, is grounded for good at the former Navy School of Mechanics, or ESMA, in Buenos Aires. The facility, once a death camp, is now a museum ...
It was, quite literally, a vehicle for evil. This British-made Skyvan, now 50 years old, is grounded for good here at the ...
A Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military dictatorship to throw alleged dissidents to their deaths in the South Atlantic Ocean was found in Florida in 2008.
The plane, which was discovered in the U.S., is the first ever proven in a court to have been used by Argentina’s junta to hurl political detainees to their deaths from the sky.
The Skyvan aircraft made some 200 unexplained night-time flights between 1976 and 1978, according to Naval Prefecture records. Military officials sought to obliterate all trace of those taken on ...
Argentine Economy Minister and presidential hopeful Sergio Massa Monday said the arrival back in the country of the former Coast Guard British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 aircraft used in the 1970s ...
The former Argentine Coast Guard aircraft is already in Argentine territory. Her last flight will be to Buenos Aires on Monday. The British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military ...
A plane, which used by ... are given access to the Short SC-7 Skyvan aircraft used in the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) by the Naval Prefecture under registration PA-51, ...
Skyvan PA-51 still has a long journey to complete. It is currently at the Marana regional airport near Tucson, Arizona. A short-range aircraft, it will have to make about eight or nine stops on ...
The Florida plane was the Skyvan PA-51 that operated that fateful December 14, 1977, flight. In 2007, it was used to transport mail between Fort Lauderdale and the Bahamas.