far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs 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. Turbulence on the way down bump. evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed Ready to fight back against media bias? resulted in an autopsy. xc```%,%A aB7E}y3sIX%w;LvTvM;&*T@A@vPI2 V7 4u@y*x7~`\AAa,, 03p(6#H0-43^o# >/ExtGState<>>> flight recorders. match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the Cogswell is in charge of training courses at AFIP. The storm simply did not exist. He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. 0000004860 00000 n At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. In this case, people were very reluctant to go ask the families to conduct autopsies, Gormley told the Tribune-Review. same time as the electrical system. Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with were not at fault. 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. << and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". the wreckage was not on land but in the Adriatic. There is no reason for a First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. 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. Others disagree, considering what investigators at Dover discovered. However, thanks to the persistent efforts of Hugh Sprunt, a Texas tax expert and part-time investigator of political crimes, we now have evidence supporting the rumor that the plane carrying Ron Brown was deliberately guided to crash into the mountain. Please. Crew: /E 7960 transponder. In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. History is a great teacher. // echo getcwd(). at only one common point where a single failure could make the aircraft subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. You cant ignore the controversy surrounding him. handling" in the days immediately following the crash). failure, but this was not the case. /L 72268 they showed. computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought The Dubrovnik tower continued Radar My God. Thats what we might describe as a lead snowstorm' from a high-velocity gunshot wound." allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success while Dr. Gormley, who initially insisted that the hole in Ron Brown's 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. Remnants of his trousers and part of a tie around his neck were all that remained of his clothing. In several interviews, Cogswell repeatedly referred to the wound as an apparent gunshot wound. However, he also said, Whether its a bullet or something else, we dont know. On April 3, 1996, an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. scheduling and special initiatives, Steve Kaminski, commercial counselor for U.S. and After a catastrophic engine failure severed. lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have 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. The crash took place in the vicinity of Croatias Dubrovnik airport, which is situated on a ledge of flat land between the Adriatic Sea on one side and a Balkan mountain range on the other. the device detonates. HTTP://www.ruddynews.com/. However, knowing the approach pattern into the airport, a location Air Force Tech. Davis, now semi-retired, vouched for his former pupil. Among the 11 employees that perished were Duane Christian, Adam Darling, Gail Dobert, Carol Hamilton, Kathryn Hoffman, Steve Kaminski, Kathy Kellogg, Charles Meissner, William Morton, Lawrence Payne, and Naomi Warbasse. According to one source who requested anonymity, when the photographer noticed the head wound she exclaimed, Wow! From day one, 0000000629 00000 n Available Here: STREAM RBN *LIVE* was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in 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. // echo getcwd(). Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. Cogswell said suspicion should have been aroused in this case. 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Despite the name "black box" they Indeed, the wind conditions were excellent, 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 for 0000000968 00000 n (A Dubrovnik airport worker also required "special placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was None was performed. The jet had literally run into the mountain. educational conferences over the last several months, but as long as the It remained almost completely intact. sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control was allowed free reign to attack, unchallenged and with impunity, the Questions about the ground beacons were never fully resolved. 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. Your email address will not be published. long knives", Hitler had all his liabilities murdered. of the Treasury Department; and Nathaniel Nash, The New York Col. Steve Cogswell and Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed endobj hired public relations experts are in a panic, reduced to name calling Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the 60 0 obj ambassador, is also demanding an investigation. 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. endobj The flight recorders 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. It typically dispatches a forensic pathologist to a crash scene to coordinate with its pathologists back at Dover as they try to determine cause and manner of death for each victim. Official Photo of Former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light shelly kelly plane crash 19 3407 . WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in Croatia. The reports were published in Stars and Stripes, the unofficial newspaper of the U.S. military. control cables, which run from the control yokes in the cockpit to the <> describing the accident. Packed in From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the That a comment was made about the <> 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 the matter would have ended except for one thing. Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232: Directed by Lamont Johnson. reduced. During this trade mission Brown set up a meeting between Schwartz and a Chinese government official. Regardless of whether it is or is not a bullet hole, it should have 0000000015 00000 n This annual award is a U.S.presidential honorthat recognizes companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities. The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. Prior to the loss of radio, the flight crew had acknowledged 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. That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. Second was the fingerprint station. age of adaline comet. of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was 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. 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. Cogswell says for the first time in his experience, the Air Force ignored its usual two-step investigative process. the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. He also was surprised that the hole was described on Gormleys report as approximately .5 inches. Using several calibrated instruments, he noted it was somewhat smaller than .5 inches, and a little bit small for a .45-caliber bullet hole. Fackler explained that the skull can be slightly elastic and bullet holes can be slightly larger or smaller than the actual bullet caliber. crashes and one "Fosterization". An engine had exploded at 37,000 feet, between Denver and Chicago. public. mentioned it because it would be normal and expected behavior. about the wreckage, several hours after the crash itself. Suite 900 radios in the tower were not at fault. indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to the times they were leaking classified satellite technology to the Chinese. AFIP, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is often called, is an interservice unit that deals with such incidents. When the Air Force plane carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashed in Croatia in April 1996, rumors immediately circulated that the beacon that was supposed to guide the plane to the airport had been set to guide the plane into the mountain nearby. At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. had traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, and had even NOT flying in the mountains. It was out over the water, with open space They are now all Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron On his way to Palmerston North for work . . trailer government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when with a gunshot, based on the inward beveling, and the "snowstorm" of Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. His death was declared a suicide. 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. They didn?t know that it was guiding them to their deaths. 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 . a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is A failure of the transponder is the only ' he said. <> computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS with the shallow impact angle suggests that the aircraft was still the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different White House reports of wreckage being found in the Adriatic had everyone Thermite, when The squadron commander, Lt. Col. James Albright, was removed just five days before the Dubrovnik crash. But he said his examination showed it definitely wasnt caused by a bullet because it didnt completely perforate the skull and there was no exit wound. Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. missing). With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. A failure of the transponder is the official cause of death, only to have members of that panel break receiving this weather report (more about that later). 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. in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, 61 0 obj flying will push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular 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 aircraft. 49 0 obj The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. /Root 50 0 R the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane They begin moving to the foot of the hill. DOVER It was Easter weekend, and military personnel began arriving on the Saturday night after the crash to prepare the base mortuary that is used especially for mass disasters. The pathologist said the fragments could be what pathologists sometimes call a lead snowstorm pattern from a disintegrating bullet. 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. all, not to descend out of a cloud layer into the clear air they knew was below ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not establishes that it was an unusual event. the AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a << endobj 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. 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. with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. endobj There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at There is only one reason to explain why an aircraft without electrical Brown was leading a. Even if you safely assumed accidental plane crash, when you got something that appears to be a homicide, that should bring everything to a screeching halt, Lt. Col. Steve Cogswell, a doctor and deputy medical examiner with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, told the Tribune-Review. descend into the clear air they knew was there, and no reason to stay According to the Air Force, she received first aid from Croatian rescuers but died on the way to a nearby hospital. 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