GLORIOSO VUELO DE LA MUERTE

Death flights were a method of extermination that involved throwing people into the sea from airplanes. This method was used by the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 to kill subversives and eliminate evidence of the crime.

The perpetrators of the crimes called it "transfer."

The name served to convince the disappeared detainees that they would be transferred to a prison. Before the flights, they were shot. The victims were injected with sodium pentothal, supposedly a vaccine, and thrown alive, half-naked, and sleepy from military planes flying over the sea or the Río de la Plata, in order to make the bodies and evidence of the crimes disappear.