page_title: 1966 Aerolineas Argentinas DC-4 hijacking
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: 1966 Aerolineas Argentinas DC-4 hijacking / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Español: Cristina Fernández inauguró hoy en el Congreso de la Nación el 131º período de sesiones ordinarias. La mandataria trazó un balance de su gestión y anunció el envío de proyectos de ley para democratizar la Justicia, como por ejemplo la elección directa de los miembros del Consejo de la Magistratura. Además, defendió el memorandum de entendimiento con Irán por la causa AMIA como medio de "buscar la verdad". Y volvió a reclamar al Reino Unido que se siente a dialogar por la soberanía de Malvinas. Antes de su discurso, la mandataria inauguró una vitrina ubicada en Pasos Perdidos que contiene una de las siete banderas que flamearon en las Islas Malvinas en el marco del Operativo Cóndor, en septiembre de 1966.
context_page_description: The hijacking of Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 648 occurred on 28 and 29 September 1966 when a group of Argentine nationalists hijacked a civilian Aerolíneas Argentinas aircraft en route from Buenos Aires to Río Gallegos and forced the captain at gunpoint to land in the Falkland Islands in protest to the UK's presence on the islands. After landing, the hijackers raised the Argentine flag, took several islanders hostage and demanded the Governor of the Falkland Islands recognise Argentine sovereignty over the islands. On 29 September 1966, after negotiating through a Catholic priest, the hijackers surrendered and were returned to Argentina for trial.
context_section_description: In 2006, on the 40th anniversary of the hijacking, a special tribute session was held in the Senate of the Province of Buenos Aires where diplomas and medals were awarded to the attending hijackers and relatives of the deceased. Also in 2006, a declaration of homage was approved in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the hijackers. In 2009 the government of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires granted "monthly social pensions", the equivalent to the basic salary of provincial government staff, to the hijackers and their families.
  In 2013 President Cristina Fernandez unveiled one of the Argentine flags flown on the islands during the incident in the Hall of the Lost Steps in the Palace of the Argentine National Congress. Another flags are on display in the Casa Rosada, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján and the Malvinas Museum in Buenos Aires. There is also a momentum to the hijackers at Plaza San Martín in Ituzaingó Partido
  The Argentine government's celebration of the hijacking has been criticised in the Falkland Islands, with former member of the Legislative Assembly, Gavin Short, describing the perpetrators as "hijackers and terrorists".
caption: President Cristina Fernandez unveiling one of the Argentine flags taken to the islands in the Palace of the Argentine National Congress.
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