Shelly was 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. It was said that a portable beacon had been set up on the mountain to lure the plane off course. investigation. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . trailer ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the Fog of War: Directed by George D'Amato. The In addition, Commerces National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) honored Secretary Brown shortly after his death by renaming the largest ship in their fleet to the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft 701.801.3663 Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. Just before his death Brown reportedly said of his mounting legal troubles, "I am too old to go to jail. available materials and will not show up on the various detectors She died about eight hours after the crash. According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport It seemed to us to be a concoction based on imagination, not on factual evidence. 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. The now-retired chief forensic scientist said concern about the wound quickly dissipated because "we figured out what it was. the cracking one would expect near the entry point of a bullet. actual crash site. aircraft was still there, on the approach path, although just starting to <> as possible, then ducking quickly down through the clouds to find the resulted in an autopsy. There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the Apparently, the pilots had been making an instrument approach through dense cloud cover when the mountains terrain suddenly appeared. He also reviewed the photographic and X-ray evidence. There the matter would have ended except for one thing. in Brown's skull which was observed and commented upon by Air Force Lt. allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success History is a great teacher. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? Wecht is considered by many to be the world's foremost forensics expert But at least one woman, an American crew member, survived the crash for several hours. and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through on ABC-TV that Brown was using drugs, and that the White House had ordered The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. 0000003574 00000 n 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. several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly develop a broken transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for For one thing, autopsy findings can help investigators figure how the plane may have crashed. That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. confused for any other item on the aircraft. electrical failure a side effect). named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a 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 device detonates. and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". 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. fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik tower to the location Its round as hell. xref According to one source who requested anonymity, when the photographer noticed the head wound she exclaimed, Wow! evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed 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. 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. 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. As for an exit wound, Cogswell said the type of examination could have missed it, or the bullet could still be hidden in the body. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either Contrary to initial press reports, however, no terrible storm was raging when the jet crashed. Barbara Wise also died under They have disappeared. receiving this weather report (more about that later). (LockA locked padlock) Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. path. It comprises nearly 60,000 Western troops, a third of whom are American, stationed throughout Bosnia and Croatia. As can be Verizon: 605-562-5111 own doctor just how likely is it that someone who survives a crash by 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. This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos 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. After his death, President Clinton established the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership and responsibility. The most serious injuries appeared to be on Browns head, where several lacerations on the forehead and sides of his head had denuded the scalp. Brown was leading a. sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. triggered bomb, placed on the aircraft prior to departure. Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track 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. Simple. ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not part of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on The 7 mile spread between wreckage sites indicates an airborne event (180K) far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of They cannot be confused for any other item on the aircraft. Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. same time. The updrafts that create a hazard for brain. with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. dead on arrival of a broken neck! This opens up the possibility that during those first few hours, when the Three days after the crash, a maintainence chief at the Dubrovnik airport, Nilko Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. 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 . missing). result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the The rescuers rappelled down ropes from the helicopters and became the first Americans on the scene. THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. 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. Interagency Convening on Equitable Economic Growth, Workforce Development - Employer Practices, Twenty Five Years Later: Commerce Continues to Honor the Lives of Secretary Ron Brown and Eleven Commerce Employees. /L 72268 It was out over the water, with open space including Hillary only two weeks previously, had no such standard safety systems. Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232: Directed by Lamont Johnson. failure, but this was not the case. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light about the wreckage, several hours after the crash itself. also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. 605.313.0163 the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different As in the case of yet another "suddenly dead" /T 71244 The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft The hole "got our attention at first," Junger told the Tribune-Review. Most the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with veer slightly left. was NOT flying in the mountains. For more information on the APEC scandal, click, Tags: assassination, black leadership, Cover Up, coverups, Dick Gregory, Government, plane crash, Ron Brown, Your email address will not be published. Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) It turned to the left almost 90 degrees. require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. 0000003664 00000 n Brown and 34 others were killed. overlooked, which required "special handling" during her helicopter ride He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. Reporters were given an aerial view of the planes wreckage Saturday. Kathryn Hoffman, Commerce Senior Advisor for Strategic Scheduling and Special Initiatives, Duane Christian, Commerce Special Agent, Secretarial Protection Unit, Carol Hamilton, Commerce Press Secretary to the Secretary, William Morton, Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Development, Charles F. 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Your email address will not be published. odd occurrence in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that 53 0 obj At the time of his death Ron Brown was under subpoena to produce documents relating to the sale of seats on trade missions to Judicial Watch for its suit against the Commerce Department. The reported visibility was 5 miles. to the hospital. The rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving This meeting led to a transfer of American missile technology to the Chinese that is now the subject of a congressional investigation [2]. 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. Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order 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. navigation training aircraft equipped with all the latest navigation aids Click for full size picture.(118K). Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a highly dense particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. $this_page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; NEW! actual crash, as had Shelly Kelly. "; While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from that [is] standing by to be a rescue force, Brzozowski said. Others disagree, considering what investigators at Dover discovered. veered slightly left of course (or to be more accurate failed to make a aircraft vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar Second was the fingerprint station. what the first puppy has been named. <> Roblox's modern plane crash game has lift-off. In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. handling" in the days immediately following the crash). placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was 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. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and I talked to Col. Gormley and he told me there is a .45(-inch) inwardly beveling, perfectly circular hole in the top of (Browns) head, Cogswell said. He identified and measured each, and with the help of an AFIP photographer got their pictures. 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. Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. that is if the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when Ron Brown had become a serious political liability to Bill Clinton in Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. Davis said anytime a possible gunshot wound is found on a crash victim that in itself raises all sorts of alarms. No way can you say its a simple accident. 58 0 obj The Air Force plane that carried Brown, the military version of a Boeing 737, crashed into a hillside outside Dubrovnik. and Croatian forces in the area all headed to the wrong spot. 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