BUENOS AIRES Argentine officials on Monday (June 26) welcomed the return of an airplane from which the country's last military dictatorship threw political opponents to their deaths, and that will now be part of a museum dedicated to the victims' memory. The turboprop plane took part in the so-called "death flights" that Argentina's bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship employed as one.
Flying from Florida to Buenos Aires usually takes about 10 hours, but the turboprop landing in Argentina on Saturday was no normal plane. It had been en route for 20 days, and many Argentines eagerly refreshed flight tracking software to keep tabs on its progress. The Short SC.7 Skyvan carried no crucial cargo nor VIP…
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine officials on Monday welcomed the return of an airplane from which the country's last military d.
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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.