They Forgot About This Plane, It Crashed Into A Mountain | The Crash Of SiFly 3275

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This is the story of sifly airlines flight 3275. Si fly was flying an atr 42 between the cities of rome italy and pristina Kosovo on the 12th of november 1999 . Now this wasnt a normal scheduled flight this atr 42 had been charted by the united nations world food program and so the 21 passengers were made up of united nations delegates.
To understand the story of flight 3275 we need to take a look at the geopolitical landscape of kosovo in 1999. Back in 1999 NATO started to bomb the country of yuglosavia. Now the reasons for that can be an entire video in itself and were not gonna get into that now. The important thing is that, the airport was managed by yugoslavia and then on the 10th of june 1999 yugoslavia fell. After that the airspace of kosovo would be managed by an international coalition called KFOR. The helsinki agreement on the 18th of june 1999 passed control of pristina airport over to the russians. At the same time KFOR and UNMIK the United
Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo mandated that air traffic control at pristina be handled by the United kingdom. As you can see kosovo in 1999 was a war torn country that was struggling back to some sense of normalcy after the war earlier that year.
Flight 3275 took off at 8:11 am and by 9:57 am the plane was being handed off from Skopje control to the pristina military controllers. Within minutes of being in contact with the military controllers the controller gave the crew the headings they'd need to intercept the ILS approach at pristina. The controller then asked them to descend to 5200 feet and then 4800 feet as he took them lower and lower, setting them up for the approach into pristina. The airport is nestled near mountains and the mountains peeked through the fog as flight 3275 made its approach into pristina.
At that point they were getting ready for the approach and the controller told them that they were 5nm behind another plane and they were number two for landing. The controller asked them to turn to the left. As they did the crew monitored their position relative to the papa romero india beacon which was near the airport.
The crew radioed the controller and told them that they were 15 nm from the airport and then he asked them to turn to 180 degrees. Setting them up for the ILS approach onto runway 17. As they turned a chime was heard in the cockpit indicating that their landing gear was not extended. But that made no sense they were just turning to line up the runway they dont need to extend the landing gear right now. then The pilots then noted that they were just 240 feet above the terrain, but it was too late for them to react. The plane started striking trees and then hit the mountain.
The wreck of flight 3275 was found by an army helicopter 10 hours after the crash none of the 24 people onboard survived.
Investigators first looked at the airport itself. Now remember this was a war torn country and the airport was broken. Planes filed an IFR flight plan to fly into pristina but in actuality the approach they flew was visual as radio beacons at the airport were broken. For example an NDB at the