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Córdoba Legislature to Honor TC-48’s 68 Victims on 60th Anniversary

Families seek public recognition as the fate of the missing Air Force transport remains unresolved six decades later.

Se cumplen 60 años del extravío del TC 48 de la Fuerza Aérea, con 68 ocupantes
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Overview

  • A ceremony organized by legislator Nancy Almada is scheduled in Córdoba with a commemorative plaque for the 68 people who never returned.
  • The Douglas TC-48 vanished in 1965 after a distress call reporting failures in two engines and a loss of altitude during a storm over Costa Rica.
  • No wreckage or remains were conclusively recovered, and the loss is regarded as the greatest tragedy in the history of the Argentine Air Force.
  • Two main hypotheses persist about the crash site, with official positions long favoring a Caribbean sea loss and families pointing to the remote Talamanca mountains.
  • Search efforts included the FAA’s Operativo Esperanza from 2008 through 2013 and the privately funded Proyecto TC48 with annual maritime expeditions from 2015 to 2018, while relatives have criticized misleading claims about purported finds.