Finding the plane used for Argentina’s dictatorship-era “death flights” | 60 Minutes

The US government were 100% aware of these flights at the time and continued to support Videla and Galtieri (Argentine dictators) up until he invaded the Falklands. We were also aware of all the human rights violations in Chile committed by the Pinochet regime. We supported Pinochet even after he sent an assassin to Washington to plant a car bomb in a dissident's car.

I don’t cry a lot watching documentaries but the moms and nuns being tortured then thrown out of planes alive… all for wanting justice for their so sons…. I miss my mom

Let this be a reminder to those in power. "I was just following orders" will never be a legitimate defense.

What a way to die. Knowing you will free fall for a few minutes before you inevitably hit the freezing waters of the Atlantic at 100mph. Knowing that nobody will find your body except for sharks and scavengers. Crazy

This really highlights the power and influence journalists have. The Italian journalist spent 20 years and was able to uncover a terrible systemic crime and his reporting led to the conviction of 48 criminals. Unfortunately, most journalists these days are more interested in gaining clicks (because that's what they're rewarded for, the whole system is rigged) and not these in-depth pieces that actually chnge lives and bring closure to families. This was a good 60 minutes documentary.

I used to maintain a Shorts Skyvan for a small airline in Alaska. Such a charming, purposeful, and earnest aircraft. I've always wanted to convert one into a flying RV. What a tragedy to visit upon such a useful creation. Now it sits, innert, bearing silent witness to the unspeakable crimes it was used to perpetrate.

So sad the horrible thing's we as humans are capable of doing to one another, just plain horrible.

Imagine being that charter company and unknowingly bought a death flight airvan thinking it was just a dingy old transport plane

Kudos to investigative journalist and the Italian photographer 👍🏽

My father worked in Argentina from 91-94. He brought back a few things that will never leave my personal collection. A Beret from one of the Argentinian soldiers from the Falklands, Australes which were taken out of Currency comissoned in Dec of 91 I believe, and the book Nunca Mas, which is the Argentinian National Commission on the Disappeared. The English version is good, it will “get you there.” But the Book is much more horrific in Spanish. My father loved Buenos Aires, he worked in Patagonia and fell in love with the locals, and the Indians whom welcomed him. He cried when he left, still misses the country and not long ago, had a few friends from that era be in Texas for business and they surprised him. Read that book. What you see here is only a quick summation of what that book actually details. Viva Buenos Aires, Viva Argentina