Juliet Tango November: A Cold War Crime: The Shoot-Down of an Argentine CL-44 over Soviet Armenia, July 1981

Gustavo Marón explores the downing of Argentine CL-44 over Soviet Armenia with color images and previously unseen photographs.

On 18 July 1981, a Canadair CL-44D Swingtail cargo aircraft of the Argentine company Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense mysteriously disappeared over the Soviet Republic of Armenia while on a flight from Iran via Turkey in the direction of Cyprus.

Four days later, on 22 July 1981, the Vremya TV broadcast in Moscow forwarded a report from the Soviet TASS news agency which st...