A plane used by Argentina’s junta to hurl political detainees to their deaths from the sky has returned to country for a historical reckoning. Argentina’s government will add the plane to the Museum of Memory.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — 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.
One of the victims linked to the returned plane was Azucena Villaflor, whose son Néstor disappeared and presumably was murdered early in the dictatorship. After he went missing, she founded the group Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to demand information about disappeared children, and then was herself detained and killed.
“The planes had to be recovered because they were an important piece, like the gas chambers, a terrible tool,” Ceraudo said in an interview. Between December 1977 and February 1978, the bodies of five women, including Villaflor, two other members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and two French nuns who were helping mothers search for their loved ones washed up. They were buried without identification, and their bodies were not identified until 2005.
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Argentine dictatorship’s ‘death flight’ plane returned home for a historical reckoningFlying 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 passengers. Rather, the plane will be another means for Argentines to reckon with the brutal history of their country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship. This plane is the first ever proven in a court to have been used by Argentina’s junta to throw detainees to their deaths from the sky, one of the bloody period’s most cold-blooded atrocities. It will be added to the Museum of Memory, which is in what was the junta’s most infamous secret detention center.
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