Air Force, Incorporated

The documentary looks at the state of civil aviation in Argentina. It puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force. Air traffic has been in military hands since 1966. That was the year General Juan Carlos Onganía took power in a coup. The film argues that the arrangement was still standing four decades later. Enrique Piñeyro says only Nigeria does the same. Two countries, then, where the air force runs the airline industry. At the centre stands the crash of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553. Piñeyro takes his camera into the control tower without permission. The tower belongs to Ministro Pistarini airport in Buenos Aires, the one known as Ezeiza. What he films inside is meant to carry the argument. The man directing is also the man on screen. Enrique Piñeyro narrates the eighty four minute documentary, an Argentine production finished in 2006.