Tag: Skyvan PA-51

• Tuesday, June 27th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

  Argentina: The Skyvan is “a symbol of the recovery of rights,” Massa says

  

  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 for the infamous death flights was “a symbol of the recovery of rights.”

• Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Former death flights aircraft back in Argentine territory

  

  The British-built Shorts Skyvan PA-51 used by Argentina's military dictatorship to throw three Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns alive into the sea in one of the so-called “death flights” in 1977 landed Friday at Tucumán and is expected in Buenos Aires by Monday to be added to a museum.