They christened the helipad of Casa Rosada with the name of a Falklands hero

The presidential heliport located next to Casa Rosada was named this Tuesday in honor of Mario Roberto Fiorito, a Falklands hero who died in combat after the helicopter he was flying was shot down.

The event took place on May 9, 1982, when the helicopter commanded by Fiorito was tasked with rescuing the crew of the fishing vessel "Narwal". The boat in question, a fishing vessel, was located south of the Falkland Islands with the secret mission to signal the position of units of the British fleet.

The "Narwal" had already been sunk by two Sea Harrier planes. Omar Rupp, one of his 26 sailors, died as a result of a bomb dropped on the back deck.while 12 other crew members were injured.

The helicopter, a Puma AE-505, was carrying out supply work at Mount Kent. But before the order, he left for the region. A fiorito Accompanied by the mechanic Horacio Raúl Di Motta and Lieutenant Juan Carlos Buschiazzo, who volunteered to act as co-pilot.

The helicopter is gone for the area in the middle of adverse weather conditions and no possibility of establishing a communication with the Argentine ship or his crew.

However, the three soldiers did not see their purpose. The Coventry destroyer launched a single Sea Dart missile which, after traveling 21 kilometers, He struck the helicopter and immediately knocked him down.

The next day, three search flights were sent: an Augusta army, then a Pucará and finally an Aeromacchi. They all walked along the coast, but without seeing anything.

Fiorito, Buschiazzo and Dimotta were the only helicopter crew to have perished in the conflict in the Malvinas and the three received the medal "The Argentinean nation for combative value" post mortem"

They attended the ceremony during which a plaque bearing the names of the three heroes was discovered. a group of veterans, relatives of the victims and authorities of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, addiction that organized the tribute.