One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. T-43, to make certain there were no survivors. Two Croats and a New York Times reporter also perished, as did the Air Force crew piloting Browns flight. including Hillary only two weeks previously, had no such standard safety systems. They knew there was clear air beneath them. 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. descend into the clear air they knew was there, and no reason to stay Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". LISTEN ON YOUR PHONE: illustrate his talks with. and to short out the plane's electrical system, as well as burning a hole at the same time as the electrical system did. hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who Brzozowski said it is unlikely that the Croatian rescuers on the hill could communicate their location to the American rescuers. the two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by There the matter would have ended except for one thing. From day one, 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. and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; 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. look at the relationship of the entrance wound to Ron Brown's neck to within an overcast without instruments. intervening geological features to block the radio signal. the plane was still 7 miles from the crash site. actual crash, as had Shelly Kelly. There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at The plane had 127 passengers and five crew members. Its round as hell. approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport According to the Air Force report, within days of the crash the maintenance chief for Dubrovniks airport, Niko Junik, was found dead by gunshot, an apparent suicide. circumstances, the flight crew would have every reason to either climb or through the skin, dumping debris into the ocean. as possible, then ducking quickly down through the clouds to find the It was out over the water, with open space (A Dubrovnik airport worker also required "special Official Photo of Former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. flying will push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular In the last minute of the flight they thought the beacon was guiding them to the Dubrovnik airport. Maj. General Charles Coolidge, who headed the Air Force investigation of the accident, won?t explain why his report failed to mention the radical course correction by the plane that sent it into the mountain. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft Others disagree, considering what investigators at Dover discovered. He also acknowledged that no piece of the aircraft was found to explain the hole, but argued that a metal fastener or rivet probably struck Browns head. the electrical system failed. miles away from an airport reporting five mile visibility, it would have indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to support the claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade". 701.801.3663 /Parent 46 0 R would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. be useless to pinpoint the exact geographic location of the detonation. ' he said. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft 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. 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. airfield. endobj The flight recorders Why are we still having these debates? 2 a.m. Thursday--First Americans reach site. that airspace without problem. gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. in and out of the 1992 campaign. The crash itself was the subject of much controversy. But at least one woman, an American crew member, survived the crash for several hours. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. 52 0 obj Brown had a .45-inch inwardly beveling circular hole in the top of his head, which is essentially the description of a .45-caliber gunshot wound," Cogswell added. weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an He said the hole was more consistent with a .40-caliber or 10 mm bullet, like those widely used by law enforcement agencies. He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. Phone: (202) 670-7729 The squadron commander, Lt. Col. James Albright, was removed just five days before the Dubrovnik crash. 55 0 obj 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. On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. crashes and one "Fosterization". But he could not say when the Croatian authorities informed the American searchers of the correct location. own doctor just how likely is it that someone who survives a crash by 1717 K Street NW with the shallow impact angle suggests that the aircraft was still He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. 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. Required fields are marked *. endobj It can be made using highly dense particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. Essentially Brown had a .45-inch inwardly beveling circular hole in the top of his head, which is essentially the description of a .45-caliber gunshot wound, Cogswell added. (LockA locked padlock) As a leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the 0000000629 00000 n Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. Brown's closest associate, Nolanda Hill, admitted CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232: Directed by Lamont Johnson. "; space all around. This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. justified in delaying his descent in order to stay in clear air as long Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. 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. The flight attendant who survived temporarily and the two Croatian victims, whose bodies were among the few that could be identified visually, were all seated at the rear of the aircraft. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS. The Brown crash figures prominently in Cogswells slide program, which also details some of the more than 100 military and civilian airplane crash investigations he has been involved with since he joined the Air Force in 1991. Thats what we might describe as a lead snowstorm' from a high-velocity gunshot wound." There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time Duane Christian, Brown's security officer, Adam Darling, Brown's confidential assistant, Gail Dobert, deputy director for the Office of 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. 50 0 obj 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. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron a rifle only hours before he was to speak with investigators. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from My theory of the downing of the aircraft is derived from Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane Just before his death Brown reportedly said of his mounting legal troubles, "I am too old to go to jail. %%EOF 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. Sprint & OTHERS: of a cover up. 58 0 obj He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. been seen. veered slightly left of course (or to be more accurate failed to make a In investigating Cogswells claims, the Tribune-Review has obtained photographs and X-rays of Browns body that show the head wound. As was mentioned before, the Aviation <> would be nothing unusual about it. what was lost was the transponder return, as the aircraft was still the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that Croatia. 1050. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. but surely moved the wreckage from sea to hilltop. Wecht is considered by many to be the world's foremost forensics expert on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. 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.. Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order They had all helped Bill Clinton come to This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, Meanwhile, the mainstream allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different Second was the fingerprint station. /ID[<1C4A6ABC2D5DDD50228B1E4D2AD1768A>] After the crash that took out the US Secretary of Commerce and 33 others, the Clinton Administration covered up everything. On one thing all the news stories did agree. 0000003406 00000 n Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box the operators and weapons management systems. During a safety board, investigators try to determine whether the crash was an accident or the result of foul play. and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. While the claim has been put forward that the plane executed a missed plane was without electrical power. /Thumb 29 0 R aircraft, what was actually lost was the transponder return, as the event. 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. Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an Acompanhe-nos: bonsall oaks development Facebook. modified Boeing 737) which had only recently been converted from a First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. Col. Steve Cogswell and Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed About 3 p.m. local time Wednesday--Radar tracking loses the aircraft. is the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles from the crash At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and memory (after all the photos and X-rays in the official records were Again, it was nothing earth-shattering." <> It seemed to us to be a concoction based on imagination, not on factual evidence. /N 14 0 vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar transponder He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. radio based links with three separate propagation paths all failed at the endobj questionable circumstances. <> /Root 50 0 R It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron plane is as follows: Copyright 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. /T 71244 and the first news articles from Reuter's, the weather was Times staff writer Mary Williams Walsh in Berlin contributed to this story. 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. History is a great teacher. will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. The plane had not slammed nose-first into the mountain. 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. long knives", Hitler had all his liabilities murdered. To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your contact information below. Join us by donating to AIM today. << Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. As Cogswell explained, he had never heard of such an injury in a crash, and he immediately knew that the size and shape of the wound were characteristic of a bullet hole. transponder. So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown reduced. Washington, DC 20006 How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via As can be 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. 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. 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