Three IRA prisoners fled in a helicopter from Mountjoy prison in Dublin. The plan was resigned to the IRA. They rented a helicopter with a guide, saying they were photographers who wanted to photograph the city from the air, but once in the air they forced the pilot to land on the Mountjoyo patio. At first, the guards did not dare to believe that he was a defence minister. Seeing that the prisoners surrounded the guards, it was too late. His flight to the ends could not stop. The government of the Republic of Ireland was embarrassed by the flight. The getaway was introduced into Republican popular culture and has been picked up, inter alia, at The Helicopter Song.