Pilot arrested over Argentina 'death flights'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Pilot arrested over Argentina 'death flights'
Juan Alberto Poch, a budget airline pilot, is accused of flying planes from which junta threw opponents into sea

Giles Tremlett, Valencia
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 September 2009 15.00 BST

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Pictures released by the Spanish home affairs ministry of Juan Alberto
Poch, a pilot accused of taking part in 'death flights' run by the
Argentinian dictatorship in the 70s and 80s. Photograph: EPA

Spanish police have arrested an Argentinian military pilot accused of taking part in "death flights" in which hundreds of opponents of his country's military junta were thrown from planes into the sea.

Juan Alberto Poch, 57, was arrested on Monday at the controls of a Dutch holiday jet he was about to fly from Valencia to Amsterdam.

Poch is wanted by the courts in Argentina to answer allegations that he flew navy aircraft on the death flights between 1976 and 1983.

Transavia, a low-cost airline owned by KLM and Air France, has confirmed it employed the pilot, who also has Dutch nationality.

Spanish police said they arrested Poch during a 40-minute turnaround for the plane he was flying for Transavia. The company had been warned the arrest was pending and another pilot was on hand to fly the plane.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/23/death-flights-pilot-arrest-argentina

[libnnc]

1. I'm in the middle of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine

read about these flights last night. Her book is impossible to put down.

Horrifying -- I have no other words for it.

:kick:

[winyanstaz]

2. and when will we see arrests for pilots that flew kidnapped victims to be tortured>?

And when will we see arrests for those that ordered kidnapping and torture?
And speaking of arresting pilots..why are not those chemtrail pilots in prison too?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. there are no secrets in aviation

Those who participated in rendition flights can all be identified.