Talk:Southern Air Transport

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I appreciate at least there is an entry for Southern Air Transport on Wikipedia but really the whole 1999 section is an uncited hagiography of an intelligence front notorious for drug trafficking, operated under Executive Order 12333. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HongPong (talk • contribs) 18:13, 5 October 2014 (UTC) Similarly, many subjective statements intended to portray SAT in a positive light or to portray positive or constructive incidents and operations are offered without citation or explanation, meriting the NPOV flag.[reply]

Problems

Much of the article is unsourced, particularly the section on 1986-1999. This section should either be sourced or removed. There also seems to be no source for the 1982 composition of the SAT fleet, which is of questionable relevance; why 1982, why not later or earlier? Please comment on this if you believe this should be kept.

Several other details are also unsourced, original research, or fail verification, and I am deleting them with the following notes: 1) the statement that SAT filed for bankruptcy on the same day that the CIA-OIG report on Contra drug smuggling came out is incorrect, and implies a cause and effect no one has ever claimed (original research); 2) the statement that the CIA was ordered to divest its airlines in 1976 is incorrect; 3) the claim that SAT continued to support covert activities in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Angola, and elsewhere after this date is unsourced. 4) The entire description of the shoot-down of the C123 in Nicaragua in 1985 is incorrect; the plane did not belong to SAT, it was not registered to SAT, and the crew members were not SAT employees at the time of the crash; the claim that it belonged to "Corporate Air Services" is apparently based on a 1986 Sandinista publication; the source listed in the article does not mention Corporate Air Services.

That SAT had links with the plane and crew is true, and these should be set out with RS citations, which I will attempt to do in the near future. Rgr09 (talk) 02:32, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]