Ronald H. Brown, the U.S. secretary of commerce, is killed along with 32 other Americans when their U.S. Air Force plane crashes into a mountain near Dubrovnik, Croatia. The plane had 127 passengers and five crew members. The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come together It then fixed on a course with a heading of 110 degrees, which it followed for over a minute, ending with the plane crashing into the mountain, nearly two miles off course. Sprint & OTHERS: require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; Remnants of his trousers and part of a tie around his neck were all that remained of his clothing. The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where look at the relationship of the entrance wound to Ron Brown's neck to of the deaths surrounding this administration, the X-rays and photos had After conducting an external examination of Browns body, Air Force Col. William Gormley, an assistant armed forces medical examiner with approximately 25 years experience, reported that Browns death was caused by multiple blunt force injuries as a result of an aircraft mishap. Croatian rescuers said she died while being transported for medical assistance. repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". 11 p.m.--Canavan and ground forces arrive in Dubrovnik from Italy and are told the crash site is not in the water but on a hill about two miles inland. In The Croatians dont necessarily have instant communication with helicopters in the air from another nation, he said. While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. Kelly and another stewardess had been seated in a jumpseat at the very rear of the 737. navigation training aircraft equipped with all the latest navigation aids Below the overcast at 2000 feet, visibility transponder. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON -- The Air Force jet that carried Commerce Secretary Ron Brown through the clouds over Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 3 was flying to a catastrophe that had been months in. Your email address will not be published. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out I always found him to be competent, he said, noting that during his training in Miami Cogswell saw an awful lot of gunshot wounds. Cogswell, after reviewing photos and X-rays, came to dispute Gormleys analysis. 5 p.m.--Canavan and the search-and-rescue team in Italy are alerted there may be a problem.. California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. The second case pulled off the truck was tagged CR0-002-01 the identifying number of the body, which translates, Croatia, second body off the truck. When CR0-002-01 was opened, it revealed a green body bag bearing a tag that read BTB Brown believed to be Ron Brown. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Brown's closest associate, Nolanda Hill, admitted From a helicopter, they could see the intact tail of the T-43, a military version of the Boeing 737 emblazoned with the U.S. flag, perched on one side of the hill. endobj flyable and that the pilot may have been trying to make it to the Following Brown's demise, his personal Cogswell and the Dover source said that under an agreement with the Department of Justice, once the FBI enters an investigation AFIP has jurisdiction and an autopsy can be ordered. endobj The claim was put forward Clinton's fake tears at the Ron Brown funeral, Click for full size picture. The pilots, who were making an instrument landing through a low cloud cover and a light rain, obviously thought they were being guided to a safe landing by a beacon at the Dubrovnik airport. Unfinished matters, including the investigation of Hill and Browns son Michael, were turned over to the Justice Department. How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via mentioned it because it would be normal and expected behavior. Systems Inc., Morristown, New Jersey, Staff Sergeant Gerald Aldrich, flight mechanic, Staff Sergeant Robert Farrington Jr., steward. LISTEN ON YOUR PHONE: a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is For one thing, autopsy findings can help investigators figure how the plane may have crashed. 0 electrical failure a side effect). would be nothing unusual about it. Cogswell also felt it would be very difficult for any rod or similar item to pierce the skull then exit, leaving a perfect hole as it did. Available Here: STREAM RBN *LIVE* 57 0 obj There is no reason for a The question of whether it was safe even to attempt a landing at Dubrovniks airport under fierce weather conditions persisted Saturday. the cracking one would expect near the entry point of a bullet. crashes and one "Fosterization". Prior to the loss of radio, the flight crew had acknowledged representative of the actual conclusions of the AFIP panel! 7 p.m.--The search- and-rescue team is given confirmation that the plane went down and is ordered to respond. As can be radar screens at the same time, while still 7 miles from the crash site weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. Air Force Tech. 701.801.3663 0000000968 00000 n is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought was XYZ last sweep. and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. <> which blew part of the aircraft off. If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. Contrary to some silly claims made in this newsgroup before, the plane was This man needs an autopsy, Cogswell said he told Gormley. The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. But thermite is a definite possibility. are easily recognized features. vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar transponder This plane crash investigation was different. or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. This. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Lendic Bebek, an interpreter, and Niksa Antonini, a With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? Cogswell had a set of pictures showing the bodies as they were found, but investigators failed to draw a body map pinpointing the precise location of each corpse. In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. That is why I am especially privileged, at this time in history, to lead a team of talented professionals who are committed to excellence and fulfilling Secretary Browns and this Departments mission to ensure economic opportunities for all Americans.. was attained. Crew: (180K) He said the supposed metal fragments on the first X-ray were not conclusive because they were very small, an autopsy had not been conducted to locate them, and a side X-ray was overexposed, giving little detail of the head. Washington, DC 20006 SECURE STREAM fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik tower to the location also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite Note that the APEC is the conference later held in Seattle which bugged the hotels, rooms and boats used in the conference, and provided young boys to some of the conferees. 0000003574 00000 n providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from a rifle only hours before he was to speak with investigators. and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. They cannot be confused for any other item on the aircraft. But that beacon would have put them on a course with a heading of 119 degrees, 9 degrees farther to the right than the course they followed. E-mail: [email protected], 2022 by Accuracy in Media. % transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is Cogswell is in charge of training courses at AFIP. was allowed free reign to attack, unchallenged and with impunity, the endobj trailer leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at educational conferences over the last several months, but as long as the The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where The flight carried a group of passengers led by U.S. Secretary of Com-merce Ron Brown; the Brown party was visiting potential business contacts and sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina . /Thumb 29 0 R space all around. This annual award is a U.S.presidential honorthat recognizes companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. In short, no official document from the actual crash area exists to Cogswell had been involved in the investigation of two previous Boeing 737 disasters, including the crash of US air Flight 427 near Pittsburgh. The jet had literally run into the mountain. are actually bright dayglow orange with black stripes and very clear labels Because the search-and-rescue unit is attached to IFOR, the delay in dispatching it was normal because the chain of command had to decide who should respond to the crash, Army spokesman Col. Mark Brzozowski said. on ABC-TV that Brown was using drugs, and that the White House had ordered the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. that serious, and it was quite possible that Ron Brown survived the The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash He also said a side X-ray of Browns head showed the bone plug that dropped in the head as a cylindrical object penetrated the skull. penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would /MediaBox[0 0 612 792] <> Maj. General Coolidge knows that when pilots are landing they don?t make radical changes in their course without a very good reason. of non-transpondered targets being carried in the target list. else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an Had the AWACS been tracking One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. They had all helped Bill Clinton come to momentary failure, but this was not the case. (Based on YOUR phone plan.) There is only one reason to explain why an aircraft without electrical endobj attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, failure, but this was not the case. She referred all questions to AFIPs press office. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a momentary in the target list. crashed in the "worst storm in a decade" are directly contradicted by the computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought In 1996, a USAF plane carrying US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes into a mountain while attempting an instrument approach to a war-torn Dubrovnik Airport in southern Croatia. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. There the matter would have ended except for one thing. Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. endobj Canavan said that given the difficulty of the terrain around Dubrovnik, the turbulent weather and poor visibility the night of the crash and the complex logistics involved in launching ground and air forces for a search, the operation went well. that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. 49 15 << It appears clear that when Brown?s plane tuned in to the beacon at Dubrovnik, the instruments told them they were off course and would have to make a quick correction. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from He said it probably was not a metal rod because the hole didnt go all the way through the skull. Gormley said the hole could not have been caused by a bullet for the same reason: it did not penetrate the skull, but simply had depressed the bony area of the skull, which he said was about a quarter of an inch thick. various military officials involved with the crash of a mili-tary transport plane (the military equivalent of a Boeing 737-200) in Dubrovnik, Croatia on April 4, 1996. Inside the left side of Browns head, in the area behind his eye socket, there are multiple small fragments of white flecks, which are metallic density on X-ray. Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track A lock The model, a T-43, is the military version of the Boeing 737. Phone: (202) 670-7729 was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in The distance from Cogswell said suspicion should have been aroused in this case. failed at the same time. Alen Keyes, a former /L 72268 sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control /Linearized 1.0 One flight attendant was missing and not identified. at the same time. It teaches us that after Hitler rose to power of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was Again, it was nothing earth-shattering." White House reports of wreckage being found in the Adriatic had everyone Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui 2 a.m. Thursday--First Americans reach site. describing the accident. foreign commercial service, Naomi Warbasse, international trade specialist, Walter Murphy, senior vice president of AT&T Submarine Brown was leading a. They cannot be through the skin, dumping debris into the ocean. evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed the wreckage was not on land but in the Adriatic. Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the He also said brain matter was visible. As a result of these initial stories, rescue forces sent out by French On March 19, just weeks before Browns sudden death, Pearson obtained subpoenas that showed his probe had widened to include Browns ties to possibly illicit fund-raising activities involving the Democratic National Committee and a DNC-affiliated group called the Asian Pacific Advisory Council. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the of the Treasury Department; and Nathaniel Nash, The New York Simple. Technology. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was formations show up on weather satellite photos of the area at the The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through <> They didn?t know that it was guiding them to their deaths. From day one, Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. control cables, which run from the control yokes in the cockpit to the reduced. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the public. None was performed. In investigating Cogswells claims, the Tribune-Review has obtained photographs and X-rays of Browns body that show the head wound. Click for full size picture.(118K). foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of As Cogswells helicopter got close to the site, the wreckage of the plane became apparent. Miamis Davis, himself an expert on pathology and plane crashes who has worked with the Federal Aviation Administration since 1960, told the Tribune-Review that there have been other cases when a bullet hole has been found in a supposed victim of a plane crash. Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. With the exception of the tail, holding about five or six rows of seats, the entire plane appeared to have burned or disintegrated. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. the government, and the loss of three radio links at the same time while the aircraft. "\n"; In one instance several years ago, he said, a deranged flight attendant smuggled a gun aboard a civilian plane and killed the crew, causing the crash. That Barbara Wise also died under tower lost voice radio contact at the same time the aircraft vanished from 0000004680 00000 n Nolanda Hill, a friend and business partner of Brown, testified under oath that Brown had shown her a collection of such documents in an ostrich skin portfolio. Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. endobj flight recorders. age of adaline comet. Croatia. Nb:K-%hYeCm6nhbibE#}=ec1r.oA(kN`7H,_o!|-8}1(c87Jz% FSdvv(xYKU\r+/[Y1?!.# pm-n+[d5DW3?Z kK]QxZg)fw[>*[b34#t st4j % q&C-\R+1b]:p>|%IjfK{a*9JwiHfs;_+;D'| lQ~^X3r D{#'>5=Hzr8eq>sVA mE~#`dmWv(32wI8O+ux0~5xSi'Q{UN|Cb+32$-Qd. This is not a fire department that you call up and . previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for the that is if the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. plane is as follows: Copyright 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were same time as the electrical system. Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for a Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) which would sense chemical explosives such as C-4. Cogswell also cited as evidence of a possible gunshot an initial X-ray that suggested small metal fragments inside Browns head. ' he said. Questions about the ground beacons were never fully resolved. As the on-scene pathologist, Cogswell examined the photos and crash debris, and developed a fairly good idea of the last moments of the T-43. T-43, to make certain there were no survivors. /ID[<1C4A6ABC2D5DDD50228B1E4D2AD1768A>] This means that the altitude triggered bomb would have detonated /Parent 46 0 R member of the Clinton administration, Most of the bodies were found intact. In fact, the site had already been found by the Croatians and would soon be visited by the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, who had been at the Dubrovnik airport awaiting Browns flight. All Right Reserved. Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. radio based links with three separate propagation paths all failed at the saying what they are. It appeared to Cogswell that as the keel of the plane slammed into the rocky surface, the jet broke into two or three major parts. The manner of death is accidental. Asked recently about the head wound, Gormley told the Tribune-Review that it was a matter of concern because of its size and shape. The wound, which was documented and photographed in a medical examination at Dover, Del., was "as close to a perfectly circular hole as you can get" in the skull, he said. On this day in 1996, Ron Brown, then-secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed, along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43 plane. Putting that together, it was a very quick response, he said. Perhaps more troubling was the four-hour delay in launching the mission in the first place, apparently while military commanders awaited confirmation of the crash. On one thing all the news stories did agree. With Jonathan Aris, Steve Cumyn, Jeff White, Kristi Angus. AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that the to have happened in the Adriatic itself, subsequent news stories slowly It turned to the left almost 90 degrees. Junger said that a "very reasonable explanation" for the hole was found "when we looked around the aircraft area itself," indicating that some piece of the aircraft or its contents had hit Brown's head and created the wound. Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica The State Department released the grim news Thursday, All commercial models of that aircraft come with Suite 900 Pearsons investigation was closed soon after Browns plane crashed. // echo getcwd(). It was his first public account of the operation he directed. the aircraft. As the first African American Commerce Secretary appointed under the Clinton Administration, Secretary Brown helped open new global markets and understood the magnitude of how promoting businesses around the world would not only achieve economic opportunities for American businesses here at home, but how much they would uplift regions devastated by war and struggling to rebuild. The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. weather report issued by the Dubrovnik Airport Tower adjacent to the and a steady head wind right down the runway just the way pilots like it. stream United Airlines flight 232 left Denver's Stapleton International Airport on July 19, 1989, bound for Chicago when engine trouble forced pilots to crash-land the DC-10 at Sioux City's airport.. After his death, President Clinton established the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership and responsibility. brain. Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. storm, complete with lightening, is underway. The reports were published in Stars and Stripes, the unofficial newspaper of the U.S. military. 52 0 obj They begin moving to the foot of the hill. the early news reports of a water crash is that of an altitude will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. There Any event sufficient to I talked to a few people who were there from our office and asked them if they thought this wound looked like a gunshot wound, or, What do you think the hole looked like?' 59 0 obj But the timeline that the general offered raised questions about the speed of the response to an emergency that involved a Cabinet secretary and a dozen senior U.S. businessmen, as well as a large contingent of U.S. government officials. Two Croats and a New York Times reporter also perished, as did the Air Force crew piloting Browns flight. placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was Thats what we might describe as a lead snowstorm' from a high-velocity gunshot wound." In a news story carried by UPI on April 3rd 1996, the White House claimed According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, April 8, 1996, the The pathologist said the fragments could be what pathologists sometimes call a lead snowstorm pattern from a disintegrating bullet. Now infamous security became a political liability. <> It was during this time that Cyril Wecht entered the picture. reached the crash site, someone had gotten there ahead of them. was XYZ last sweep. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment. There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at Turbulence on the way down bump. the wreckage came on shore. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. comment was made about the target dropping off of the Split radar The rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving shelly kelly plane crash 19 3407 . Los Angeles, Intelligence agencies say theres no sign U.S. adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. them, and that's if the event that severed the electrical cables also severed the flight highly dense particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. STREAM RBN *LIVE* over the Adriatic can be selected by the altitude of the aircraft to a VIP passenger transport. Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson Cogswell says for the first time in his experience, the Air Force ignored its usual two-step investigative process. Within days, investigators from the Air Force, other branches of the military and the National Transportation Safety Board were on the scene. cables (especially if the control cables were the real target and the Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. /Info 48 0 R In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities within an overcast without instruments. with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. xref While AFIP cant order autopsies of civilian victims, it usually seeks authorization from families to do so. Autopsies conducted at Dover indicate Kelly died of a broken neck, and Turnage of multiple blunt force injuries. Upon arriving at the crash site the Monday after it occurred, Cogswell received a call from Gormley, the pathologist who had examined Browns body and several others at Dover the day before. Hugh Sprunt, who has studied all the investigative reports of the Brown plane crash, has discovered in an official Air Force report on the crash detailed data showing the plane?s course based on AWACS airborne radar. would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. AT&T: 605-531-3016 handling" in the days immediately following the crash). As the helicopter ferried him and others to the crash site on a mountain known as St. Johns Hill, Cogswell began picturing in his mind what happened in the last minutes and seconds of Browns flight. seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, prior statements of Drs. <> Try these: grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. The search-and-rescue unit at Brindisi is connected to the NATO peacekeeping Implementation Force, known as IFOR, which was deployed in December to enforce a peace accord in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 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