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

On July 18, 1981, a Canadair CL-44D Swingtail cargo plane from the Argentine company Transporte Areo Rioplatense, mysteriously disappeared over the Soviet Republic of Armenia while on a flight between Tehran (Iran) and Larnaca (Cyprus).Four days later, on July 22, 1981, the Vremya television news broadcast in Moscow, the information provided by the TASS news agency, according to which, a plane of unidentified origin had entered Soviet territory in the vicinity of the Armenian city of Yerevan. According to the official TASS agency, the plane had ignored calls from air traffic control services, while carrying out dangerous maneuvers, by virtue of which, it had ended up colliding with another Soviet aircraft, crashed and burned.With this cryptic information began one of the most impressive and least known stories of Argentine civil aviation: the shooting down of the