The huge cargo plane circled over Belgrade for three hours with no contact with ground control and no electricity for its instruments. It was carrying a cargo which officials still can’t agree on although the plane was chartered through a mediator by Yugoslavia’s main arms export company. Finally, the IL-76 crashed and exploded trying to land at Surcin airport which […]

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