IRA Members Escape Mountjoy Prison by Hijacked Helicopter, October 31, 1973
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
Date: October 31, 1973
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