• Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which the victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters...
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  • SST: Death Flight is a 1977 American disaster television film directed by David Lowell Rich. The film stars an ensemble cast including Barbara Anderson...
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    A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way. It is distinguished...
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  • Flight from Death is a 2003 documentary film that investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences...
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  • Colombo Operation Condor Death flights Chile priest charged over deaths, BBC, 1st September 2007 (in English) Caravan of Death Archived 2005-08-29 at the...
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    paramilitary death squads who targeted left-wing opponents. The death squad dropped the leftists out of helicopters. They were called the “death flights.” From...
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    later find their bodies and determine that they had been killed via death flights and their bodies disposed of in the sea. On the first days of December...
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  • do all of the extraordinary rendition flights—you know, the torture flights. Let's face it, some of these flights end up that way. It certainly pays well...
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    Carlos Prats in Chile. Condor operatives participated in tactics such as death flights. Although it was described by the CIA as "a cooperative effort by the...
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    Jorge Rafael Videla (category 2013 deaths)
    Rio de la Plata and Atlantic Ocean to drown in what became known as "death flights." Between 10,000 and 12,000 of the "disappeared," PEN (Poder Ejecutivo...
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  • The Flight into Death (German: Der Flug in den Tod) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Bruno Ziener and starring Ernst Winar, Gertrude Welcker...
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    right-wing group. Assassinations were carried out via mass shootings and "death flights", the throwing of people from airplanes into the South Atlantic. Additionally...
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    Augusto Pinochet (category 2006 deaths)
    "forty-four bullet holes". The practice of murdering political opponents via "death flights", employed by the juntas of Argentina and Chile, has sometimes been...
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    de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean to drown in what became known as "death flights". The film The Official Story (1984), which won the Oscar for the Best...
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    at ESMA, Buenos Aires as a memorial to those killed in the notorious Death Flights.  Austria Austrian Air Force 5S-TA & 5S-TB. 'TA now preserved at...
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    War Victims ..." Truthout. Retrieved 21 March 2015. A friend "in the death flights". 20 March 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2015. Durham, Robert B. (2014)....
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    the basement, sedated, and then killed, some by shooting, others in death flights: they were flown over the Atlantic Ocean or the Río de la Plata and...
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    leave from Varadero Cuba. These chartered flights continued until April 1973. In total, there were 3048 flights total that allowed 297,318 refugees to migrate...
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  • allegedly used cement shoes on Algerians who were murdered on so-called "death flights" during the Algerian War. The victims were called "crevettes Bigeard [fr]"...
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    flights, completing a total of 7 hours. Before being allowed to perform flights independently, he was required to do another two controlled flights alongside...
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  • "African Night Flight". He later covered "Nite Flights" in 1993 for his album Black Tie White Noise. Bowie recalled, "Scott sent me Nite Flights. I think he'd...
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    the policy was expanded to domestic flights in Denmark and flights between the Nordic countries. In 1996, SAS flights to the Benelux countries, France,...
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    ISBN 978-81-88205-48-6. Assassination Blood atonement Crime of passion Deadly force Death flights Death squad Encounter killing Extraordinary rendition Extrajudicial punishment...
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    changing and canceling flights. Formerly, they offered bereavement fares of 5% off the ticket price in the event of the death or grave illness of a family...
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  • secretly abducted were often thrown from aircraft, in what were known as death flights. Iran may have used this form of execution for the crime of sodomy....
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    The death of Christine Dacera occurred in the early hours of New Year's Day of 2021. Dacera, a 23-year-old flight attendant, was found unconscious in...
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    Midrash, the Angel of Death was created by God on the first day. His dwelling is in heaven, whence he reaches earth in eight flights, whereas Pestilence...
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  • Look up death spiral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Death spiral may refer to: Aircraft flight: Graveyard spiral Spiral dive Death spiral (figure...
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    to toss political prisoners into the Rio de La Plata in the infamous death flights. The Electras were also used for transport duties during the Falklands...
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    acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum. The Encyclopædia Britannica...
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