Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape
Sign in to saveThree Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland, aboard a hijacked Alouette II helicopter, which briefly landed in the prison's exercise yard
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Vinony's link graph records 537 inbound references to Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape, and connects out to Provisional Irish Republican Army, HM Prison Maze and Freddie Scappaticci.
The entry is geolocated on the map in D.
It is catalogued under topics including 1970s in Dublin (city), 1973 crimes in the Republic of Ireland and 1973 in Ireland.
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- aircraft hijacking
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- point in time
- 1973-10-31
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