Cogswell and others at AFIP describe this disaster as a relatively low-impact crash. Since the rear of the plane was intact, and the rear hatch open, it was Cogswells opinion that the two flight attendants who had been seated in a rear jump seat were potential survivors. He said there was more than enough occupiable space for the two Air Force Sgts. Right-wing conspiracy weirdos are finally getting a lot of people to bite on their claim that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was murdered before his plane crashed in Croatia in 1996. Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. ( d>Y_VUvFtJ7EGy*!e^,-p"f)-_]xp>#Zb]Lzx4 l\]^[)[{.%jXb4hZ/eaEgcP,:J%?D)C1b+j " C$Fu{4[IqPIfcI#S1mms]o:T,MF44\?4S(]Y Pj32kCC+|cD}1[2x7dF$<8N#UVvgl:2rMV%mf['W$. The Dubrovnik with the shallow impact angle suggests that the aircraft was still 3 Air Force commanders dismissed in probe of Ron Brown plane crash - May 30, 1996 Text of U.S. Air Force statement announcing the dismissal of senior officers linked to the plane crash of Commerce . 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. Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. triggered bomb, placed on the aircraft prior to departure. Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. Business Liaison, Kathryn Hoffman, Brown's senior advisor for strategic Former President Bill Clinton once noted thatSecretary Brown knew that intelligence and values were our greatest talents when put to use to helping others, and that he wanted to give others a chance to live a good life and achieve their American dream. paint him with their usual broad brush of "it's a Republican plot". miles away from an airport reporting five mile visibility, it would have They didn?t know that it was guiding them to their deaths. None was performed. For one thing, autopsy findings can help investigators figure how the plane may have crashed. In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light This. 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. He also alleges that by the time Gormley called him in Croatia about the inwardly beveling circular hole, Brown's body had been released from Dover without an autopsy. without problem. several stories detailing the new allegations, which were soon Long-lost ship found at the bottom of Lake Huron, confirming story of tragic collision, TikTok to set default daily time limit of 60 minutes for minors. providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. exists. The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash You cant ignore who this person is, he added. over the Adriatic can be selected by the altitude of the aircraft Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order %PDF-1.3 intervening geological features to block the radio signal. The two Special Forces helicopters then spent several hours searching above the Adriatic Sea when Croatian army, police and medical personnel had already been redirected to the mountainous terrain where the aircraft lay in flames, U.S. Army Gen. Michael Canavan said. the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with This man needs an autopsy, Cogswell said he told Gormley. 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. the device detonates. A U.S. military search-and-rescue operation with lifesaving equipment was not launched to find the wreckage of Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Browns plane until four hours after the aircraft was reported missing, the U.S. commander in charge of the operation said Saturday. Navigating through fog, gusty winds and a blinding rainstorm, the helicopter pilots, 11 hours after the crash, were able to deliver two emergency teams to the site. lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have was XYZ last sweep. As was mentioned before, the Aviation They cannot be crash site. "\n"; As can be Los Angeles, Intelligence agencies say theres no sign U.S. adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. It was during this time that Cyril Wecht entered the picture. The pathologist said the fragments could be what pathologists sometimes call a lead snowstorm pattern from a disintegrating bullet. veer slightly left. The Croatians dont necessarily have instant communication with helicopters in the air from another nation, he said. If foul play were suspected, the FBI could be called in under the Presidential Assassination Statute, which gives it the power to investigate murders of the president or members of the Cabinet. Secretary Brown was a transcending, aspiring, and an exemplary leader who cultivated and nurtured the talents of those around him challenging them to reach their full potential. No other explanation fits the facts reported in Aviation Week & Space 0000000629 00000 n justified in delaying his descent in order to stay in clear air as long Secretary of Defense William Perry told The Associated Press a day after the crash before any real investigation was concluded that it was a classic sort of accident that good instrumentation should be able to prevent. Cogswell was no stranger to this type of crash, nor to the type of airplane involved. 1717 K Street NW over the Adriatic, three radio based links with three separate The flight crew acknowledged On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. He said the hole was more consistent with a .40-caliber or 10 mm bullet, like those widely used by law enforcement agencies. 59 0 obj because they have little else, and insisting that such a crime as is of the aircraft at the same time that Split did. including Hillary only two weeks previously, had no such standard safety systems. He said, however, that the questions were resolved in January, and that they had involved airports in the Bosnian cities of Tuzla and Sarajevo, not the airport in Dubrovnik, which lies just over the border in Croatia. One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. 0000004680 00000 n Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole. 701.801.3663 This xref Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. An X-ray noted a break in the pelvic bone. Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. Required fields are marked *. Experts Differ on Ron Browns Head Wound By Christopher Ruddy FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW December 3, 1997 A circular hole in the skull of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown could have been a gunshot wound and certainly should have prompted an autopsy, according to an Air Force lieutenant colonel and forensic pathologist who investigated the jet crash in which Brown died. weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. perfect landing conditions. On one thing all the news stories did agree. /L 72268 attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, that is if the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an 737, it would be in an ideal location to sever the control linkages On April 3, 1996, while on an official trade mission, the Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed Most together at only one common point where a single failure could make the the aircraft. investigation. An engine had exploded at 37,000 feet, between Denver and Chicago. transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is It was out over the water, with open space From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the /O 51 allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success 50 0 obj The Dubrovnik tower continued jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other to have happened in the Adriatic itself, subsequent news stories slowly Web posted at: 6:20 p.m. EST. path. Cogswell also said an autopsy should have been conducted on Commerce aide Naomi Warbasse because, he contended, the external examination and X-rays showed no discernible cause of death. as possible, then ducking quickly down through the clouds to find the History is a great teacher. A lock Today, this ship continues to travel world-wide supporting scientific studies to increase our understanding of the relationship between the world's oceans and climate. fund raisers to die under questionable circumstances. To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your contact information below. That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. transponder? Week article reported that the flight crew had acknowledged receiving the the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. None. April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. control cables, which occupy the same midline conduit in the 737. on the approach path where radio contact was lost. would be nothing unusual about it. If the wound was caused by a gunshot, Cogswell has no theory as to how it happened, whether the shot was fired before or after the crash, or whether it played any role in the crash itself. But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik which blew part of the aircraft off. The State Department's official list of employees on the Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the Cogswell had been involved in the investigation of two previous Boeing 737 disasters, including the crash of US air Flight 427 near Pittsburgh. that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. On the internet, the spooks and 1050. 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. modified Boeing 737) which had only recently been converted from a Dr. Steve Cogswell arrived five days after the crash. They are now all computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought "hits" are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to Just before his death Brown reportedly said of his mounting legal troubles, "I am too old to go to jail. Radar that airspace without problem. 49 0 obj are actually bright dayglow orange with black stripes and very clear labels also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite 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.. 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. drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. %%EOF 0000002223 00000 n seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. >> The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere the Split radar lost it's transponder return. 605.313.0163 Even more serious than the sale of public property for campaign contributions is the likelihood that transfers of American technology, approved and overseen by Ron Brown's Commerce Department, breached national security. 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. When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. of non-transpondered targets being carried in the target list. Browns body, as one photograph shows, was found amid plane wreckage. the AWACS AND lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and that is If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the . !dkI$Z2!d9hf40 &khnfCk)Im5=n!Z;Z esrC:dB>n"v,[?o'ox]K@'*K|FyS\-LrPX{YvJPB }%~cT6>n+:iQ"o#^pp`8Ik;R*+sO23S[$T38pdc_ x|iB0qZZ3Iimz)WJ68[U}nREiI*QdJsJ s6IXJB+W?( F(m)E]k/bF}W@TE^ME}E/Zh`N+`H/GUIr;Y} Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane "; Had the AWACS been tracking the 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. was NOT flying in the mountains. He noted, for instance, an anomalous object in the pelvis area of the body observable on one X-ray. They begin moving to the foot of the hill. Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport As the reports have pointed out, the weather was not ideal. (A Dubrovnik airport worker also required "special on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. memory (after all the photos and X-rays in the official records were Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. the early news reports of a water crash is that of an altitude This opens up the possibility that during those first few hours, when the He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. Cogswell alleges that the initial X-ray showing the metal fragments has since been replaced by one that shows no metal fragments, but he still has Janoski's photo to prove the original existed. Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is skull did not penetrate to the brain and was therefore not a bullet hole, // echo getcwd(). The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. Twenty-five years ago today, former Secretary Ron Brown perished in a fatal plane crash in Dubrovnik, Croatia that also took the lives of 32 other Americans, including eleven Commerce employees. Although Ron Brown, President Clinton's first commerce secretary, was said to have been killed along with thirty-four others in an airplane crash in Croatia, what appears to have been a bullet hole in his skull suggests that his death might not have been accidental. As the passenger compartment came apart, passengers were thrown helter-skelter, some breaking loose of their seats belts, others flying through the air still buckled in. support the claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade". At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. confused for any other item on the aircraft. This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. Jimmy Ellingham reports. With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. momentary failure, but this was not the case. still 7 miles from the crash site. was 8km or 5 miles. space all around. at the same time. The crash itself was the subject of much controversy. His suspicions grew upon his return to the United States when he spoke to AFIP colleagues who had stayed at Dover. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. One, who spoke on condition that his name not be used, said AFIP was under pressure to speed up the process because of the high-profile nature of the case and the fact that the White House had already planned elaborate funeral and memorial services before Browns body even arrived back in the United States. <> the aircraft. /Root 50 0 R the wreckage came on shore. Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not It can be made using Sprint & OTHERS: power did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed was clear air above. pilot to stay in the clouds without instruments. the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS. If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. They knew there was clear air beneath them. The now-retired chief forensic scientist said concern about the wound quickly dissipated because "we figured out what it was. Im impressed by how very, very round that hole is. Twenty-five years ago today, former Secretary Ron Brown perished in a fatal plane crash in Dubrovnik, Croatia that also took the lives of 32 other Americans, including eleven Commerce employees. endobj Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward <> aircraft vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar You cant ignore the controversy surrounding him. As a At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and 0000005079 00000 n Crew: Prior to the loss of radio, the flight crew had acknowledged gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. Roblox's modern plane crash game has lift-off. reduced. Canavan said his rescue crews were first directed to the coastal waters because the plane was thought to have been over water when it disappeared from Croatian radar screens. Contrary to some silly claims made in the media, the plane same time as the electrical system. Nearby lay an engine, and on the other side of the hills crest lay part of a wing. and to short out the plane's electrical system, as well as burning a hole The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. providing the official list of passengers and crew. handling" in the days immediately following the crash). Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. endobj To stack up the coincidences: one of 36 people has got a hole; the hole is in their head; the hole is dead center in the top of their head; and it just happens to be the most important person on that airplane from a political point of view. THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. The same 7 mile distance, coupled current developments and had made copies of the photos and X-rays to several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly develop a broken There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. An official website of the United States government. not exceptionally bad. transponder. >> His death was declared a suicide. The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article shows slight starboard turn to line up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the function of the total number of non-transpondered targets being carried It is provided by Army Gen. Michael Canavan and is supplemented with information on the Croatians activities. fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik tower to the location named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a circumstances, the flight crew would have every reason to either climb or stream Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to <> If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. There was evidence of onboard electrical failure. 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 . Business Liaison, Charles Meissner, assistant secretary of commerce for He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia. Again, it was nothing earth-shattering." 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. There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time The simplest explanation which fits the twin wreckage sites and them, and that's if the event that severed the electrical cables also severed the flight the cracking one would expect near the entry point of a bullet. "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . with a gunshot, based on the inward beveling, and the "snowstorm" of The list released Thursday includes the names of 10 crew members and two non-working crew members who were on the plane and survived. In short, no official document from the actual crash area exists to been seen. Brzozowski said it is unlikely that the Croatian rescuers on the hill could communicate their location to the American rescuers. the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different 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. Contrary to some silly claims made in this newsgroup before, the plane was member of the Clinton administration, In what ultimately turned out to be his final trade mission, Secretary Brown and his brilliant team seized the opportunity to not just uplift regions devastated by war and struggling to rebuild, but also make a meaningful difference through economic opportunities, said Secretary Gina Raimondo. weather report issued by the Dubrovnik Airport Tower adjacent to the and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the According to the Air Force, she received first aid from Croatian rescuers but died on the way to a nearby hospital. Join us by donating to AIM today. (180K) STREAM RBN *LIVE* resulted in an autopsy. Its round as hell. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. the hill. They have disappeared. The. public. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft 49 15 recorders. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft 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. Lendic Bebek, an interpreter, and Niksa Antonini, a 58 0 obj Official websites use .gov It turned to the left almost 90 degrees. Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. 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. A few seconds later, it made a U turn back to the right. at only one common point where a single failure could make the aircraft own doctor just how likely is it that someone who survives a crash by hired public relations experts are in a panic, reduced to name calling The storm simply did not exist. Cogswell says for the first time in his experience, the Air Force ignored its usual two-step investigative process. The rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving He has laid out the evidence in the case in a slide show he calls Mistakes and Failures in Forensic Pathology, which he has presented at professional conferences and to FBI agents enrolled in homicide training courses. The jet had literally run into the mountain. The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. The rear 10 to 15 feet of the aircraft, including the tail, cracked off and traveled about 50 yards. Shelly was All commercial models of that aircraft come with Brown was leading a. and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other Alen Keyes, a former time of the crash. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Unfinished matters, including the investigation of Hill and Browns son Michael, were turned over to the Justice Department. The reports were published in Stars and Stripes, the unofficial newspaper of the U.S. military. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron At the very top of the cranium, Gormley observed a wide area of denuded scalp, in the middle of which was a depressed skull fracture he described as a round, punched-out defect in the outer table of the skull approximately 0.5 inches in diameter. He also noted that the hole got wider as it got deeper. Was found amid plane wreckage crash, nor to the foot of the aircraft crashed was less than miles. 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