MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Fifty years since Falklands incursion and landing by Argentine light aircraft
This Monday is the fiftieth anniversary of an odd stunt by Argentine Cessna pilot Miguel Fitzgerald who landed his light aircraft on the Stanley racecourse, left a note of protest about the ‘illegal’ British occupation of the Falkland Islands, handed an Argentine flag to a bemused bystander, and flew away again. Read full article
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Sep 08th, 2014 - 05:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentinas own Lindbergh..
Filmus. Why isn't the “SPIRIT OF MALVINAS” in your museum?
funny thing is, he constantly refers to the falkland islands. Enough said.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 06:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Mind you, would love to see him do it again, or a fellow pilot. Not sure MP would even bother scrambling a jet, just shoot it down from the ground
and still.....The Falklands remain The Falklands and Falklanders remain Falklanders to this day, rather a pointless exercise, its a pity his fellow modern day argenscum didnt learn the lesson.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 07:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Self-Determination......thats what you need!
“……heading to the lslands located 55o miles from the coast of Argentina”
Sep 08th, 2014 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thats correct(don't know if its 550miles though?)FROM the coast of Argentina, NOT a part of Argentina.
What an anti-hero.
Stay on your own side of the fence, don't contaminate our side, Thank you very much.
Are we really interested in a nut of an argie fifty years ago,
Sep 08th, 2014 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0they lost, let them get over it..
Fitzgerald? a good amerindian name...
Sep 08th, 2014 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0The article may be inspired by the fact that the aircraft is now in the 'Malvinas Museum'. - http://paracaidismobahia.com/cessna-185-lv-hua-en-el-museo-de-malvinas-argentinas-809
Sep 08th, 2014 - 11:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0The flight in 1964 was a very brave and impressive bit of flying (in spite of its misguided political intentions).
“On September 6, Fitzgerald left Monte Grande Airfield bound for Olavarria, Buenos Aires, and then Trelew, Chubut. The next morning he went south through Comodoro Rivadavia and Caleta Olivia. An engine problem occurred and he landed in Pico Truncated before solving the problem at a Naval Air Base and Aeroclub.”
Sep 08th, 2014 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Clearly a true argie (idiota), who even before he had done many miles he had an engine problem. I have no idea what it is about the locals in Uruguay, but just because they buy a car they all seem to think that’s the end of it. Bald tyres, holed exhausts (upsetting engine performance and fuel economy), cracked windscreens and dented bodywork are very common indeed. The argies, especially this idiot, must think the same way.
Still, he had a real success in getting the C24 to ‘award’ the Falklands to The Dark Country. OH, they are STILL a UK BOT, so he failed at that as well.
I hope somebody kicked Shirtcliffe in the nuts for letting this opportunity pass by.
For someone who has never flown in this part of the world in light airplane, it would be very difficult to appreciate his achivment. 1100 miles over stormy water, cloud and windy skies. and September is not the worst time but it is still sh!@#tty...
Sep 08th, 2014 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The plane may be hanging from the ceiling in the Malvinas Myth Palace, the flag he left, went into the bin at the back of government house.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mike Fitzgerald was not only a great civil pilot, but also a true patriot.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The flight to Malvinas is nothing compared to all he did for his country.
And what the f*ck is “The Reason” or “Chronicle” or “Pico Truncated” LOL
This 4th class newspaper MercaPrensa is a joke.
The article mentions just how unfriendly the islanders were upon arrival:
Sep 08th, 2014 - 03:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“One of them approached me. He thought I was lost. ‘Where do you come from? Do you need fuel?’
I thanked him and told him I did not need anything. It did not occur to him that I was Argentine, surely. I gave the proclamation and said, “Take, give this to your Governor.”
Welcoming, polite and offering help... Before they were invaded...
This 4th class newspaper MercaPrensa is a joke.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0then why does an intelligent argie like you post on here then..
Pico truncated!!! Also:
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Large river city, Galician rivers city, Wavevarría city, Big Mountain city, and Refreshing Airs city.
Perhaps he was flying to Chile and got lost...
Sep 08th, 2014 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are the one who is totally lost, brit bobo.
Sep 08th, 2014 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0mercopress it seems is the only open source CFK has..lol
Sep 08th, 2014 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 016 nino
Sep 09th, 2014 - 06:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0“You are the one who is totally lost, brit bobo.”
- another brilliant ripost from the 'boy Nationalist'
PMSL
@16. paulcedron Take it to the ICJ. Do you want directions?
Sep 09th, 2014 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0And when is RG land going to take their case against UK oil companies drilling in Falkland waters 'to the international courts.' RG land has been threatening action since February 2010, so why is it taking so l o n g?
So after 50 years what has this proved? What has this foolhardy adventure changed?
Sep 09th, 2014 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One macho Argentine went on a mahoosive ego trip. Ok, fine. It's his life. No harm done.
Did he change history?
Did he actually achieve anything concrete?
@20 ilsen,
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nyet.
Just another latin primadonna.
A creator of hot air.
A wasted space.
An oxygen thief.
better to be an oxygen thief than a bunch of illegal squatters stealing lands and goods from other countries.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@22
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what were the comparative Native populations in Argentina and the Falklands again? We stole nothing, you stole from and butchered the natives.
@22 It was quite legal to obtain territory by 'conquest and subjugation' and this concept was legal from the 16th Century right up to the early 20th Century. This is how Argentina legally obtained ownership of Patagonia. By harping on about what allegedly happened in 1833 (an act of war) Argentina is allowing the UK to claim that it legally obtained title to the Falklands through 'conquest and subjugation.'
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@23 Benson.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good Call!
They hate truth and honesty.
@22 paulcedron,
Sep 09th, 2014 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, l agree wholeheartedly paul niño.
lllegal squatters should not be allowed to steal land & goods from other countries.
So tell me, when is Argentina going to leave Patagonia & also return the land that they usurped from Paraguay?
We wouldn't want “the whole world” to get the wrong idea about “benevolent” Argentina, would we, young pauli?
ay isolde...isolde.
Sep 09th, 2014 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you should read some serious books (all of them in spanish) to understand the campaña del desierto.
that was during the informal british empire.
roca did the dirty job but the beneficiaries were the british companies, especially the railway.
not by chance, after the conquista del desierto, british estancieros and sheep farming companies bloomed like sunflowers in the whole patagonia.
Argentina needs British Administration to turn it around. Secretly many wish for it.
Sep 10th, 2014 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's what they can't admit. That's why they come here.
27 crying niño
Sep 10th, 2014 - 03:15 am - Link - Report abuse 01880's War of the Desert
- “ it wasn't us - it was the dirty British”
1980's War Against the Dirty British
- “ it wasn't us - it was the Junta... ”
the only consistency I can see from the “boy Nationalist” and his brainwashed pals, is a lack of accountability.
BTW, according to Land Title Records, the beneficiaries of “the Great Patagonian Land Grab of 1880's” were overwhelmingly non-British Argentinians.
Just like in “The Great Land Grab of 1982”
@11 Paulcedron
Sep 13th, 2014 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The flight to Malvinas is nothing compared to all he did for his country”.
I guess Gerald would agree.
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