In late September 1966 an Aerolineas Argentinas DC4 aircraft, on an internal flight between Buenos Aires and Rio Gallegos, was hi-jacked by an extreme right wing Argentine nationalist group, Condor.  They forced the pilot to fly to the Falkland Islands, where he landed on the Stanley racecourse.

The first Falkland Islanders who went to look at the aircraft were met by the hijackers brandishing guns, and were bustled into the plane.  The hijackers, led by a blonde woman, locally nick-named the ‘Blonde Bombshell’ then ran up the Argentine flag and demanded to speak with the Governor.  A siege ensued, with the Argentines finally giving themselves up after a day and a half. 

This was the world’s first hijacking in aviation history, and instigated the process as an attention grabbing action used more commonly in the years to come.