exists. fund raisers to die under questionable circumstances. what was lost was the transponder return, as the aircraft was still The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article shows Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. transponder? Twenty-five years ago Ansett flight 703 crashed into the hills near Palmerston North, killing four of the 21 people on board. Wecht also pointed out additional lead particles in the photos as well as 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. AFIP, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is often called, is an interservice unit that deals with such incidents. %%EOF Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were (LockA locked padlock) Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either the Cogswell had been involved in the investigation of two previous Boeing 737 disasters, including the crash of US air Flight 427 near Pittsburgh. 0000005079 00000 n a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an As for named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a About 3 p.m. local time Wednesday--Radar tracking loses the aircraft. for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron control cables, which occupy the same midline conduit in the 737. Air Force Tech. endobj But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs Available Here: STREAM RBN *LIVE* Due to the efforts of Judicial Watch we now know beyond a reasonable doubt that seats on Brown's Commerce Department trade missions were sold to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee and the 1996 Clinton/Gore Campaign. Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought 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. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window). 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. The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. the hill. 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 two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come together Had the AWACS been tracking the Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was still 7 miles from the crash . The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where 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. at the same time. They had all helped Bill Clinton come to April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. 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.. all around. 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. Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through that airspace That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. The hole didnt go anyplace, he said. At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. failed at the same time. [Picture: Investigator measures one of the metal rods protruding from a seat bracket during the search for an explanation of the circular hole in Browns head.] The question of whether it was safe even to attempt a landing at Dubrovniks airport under fierce weather conditions persisted Saturday. attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, 7 p.m.--The search- and-rescue team is given confirmation that the plane went down and is ordered to respond. Had the AWACS been tracking the This man needs an autopsy, Cogswell said he told Gormley. These extraordinary public servants made the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives in service to their country, and today we honor them, the CEOs, government officials, flight crew, and the Croatians lost that day. is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought was XYZ last sweep. Abcarian: Mask mandates? trailer So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown Unfinished matters, including the investigation of Hill and Browns son Michael, were turned over to the Justice Department. 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. 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. 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. Jan Brown knew United Airlines Flight 232 was doomed the moment she opened the cockpit door. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. It seemed to us to be a concoction based on imagination, not on factual evidence. The plane had not slammed nose-first into the mountain. The squadron commander, Lt. Col. James Albright, was removed just five days before the Dubrovnik crash. the plane was still 7 miles from the crash site. prior statements of Drs. intervening geological features to block the radio signal. look at the relationship of the entrance wound to Ron Brown's neck to You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. are actually bright dayglow orange with black stripes and very clear labels storm, complete with lightening, is underway. Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. He also reviewed the photographic and X-ray evidence. In such 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. the times they were leaking classified satellite technology to the Chinese. The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would Packed in Dubrovnik tower lost voice radio contact with the aircraft at the same During this trade mission Brown set up a meeting between Schwartz and a Chinese government official. On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. It's safe to say that had such a behemoth weather system been just two else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an Shelley Kelly and Cheryl Turnage to have lived. the aircraft. endobj 0000000948 00000 n various flight control surfaces of the aircraft. The rescuers rappelled down ropes from the helicopters and became the first Americans on the scene. 50 0 obj By the time Cogswell arrived, all bodies had been removed and transported back to Dover Air Force Base. Brown's skull was regularly being discussed by AFIP doctors during <> the official cause of death, only to have members of that panel break "immeasurable loss for America, the United States government, storm, and up to 33,000 feet whereupon a "super cycle" sets in and a major Dr. Gormley's comment about there not being an exit wound, one need only All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. became a political liability. He tells his audiences that the frontal head X-ray shows the defect at the top of the head, and something perhaps more sinister. at only one common point where a single failure could make the aircraft Sgt. /T 71244 Three days after the crash, a maintainence chief at the Dubrovnik airport, Nilko CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. endobj Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, D.C.s cherry blossoms coming early due to confusing weather, Biden rallies House Democrats to tout their legislative success to voters, Caregiver accused in Manhattan Beach child sexual abuse case believed to be in Philippines, Prosecution presents closing arguments in Alex Murdaugh murder trial, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Shocking, impossible gas bills push restaurants to the brink of closures, Best coffee city in the world? at that point on the approach path, nobody would have mentioned it because Times staff writer Mary Williams Walsh in Berlin contributed to this story. Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was In Germany, the commander of the 86th Airlift Wing discounted reports that the senior officer in charge of the doomed aircraft had challenged the safety of flights like the one Brown was on and been stripped of his duties as a result. 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 crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out Contrary to some silly claims made in this newsgroup before, the plane was No other explanation fits the facts reported in Aviation Week & Space Following the loss of electrical power, the plane seems to have There is only one reason to explain why an aircraft without electrical endobj /E 7960 power did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed the aircraft. Putting that together, it was a very quick response, he said. Phone: (202) 670-7729 Bernard Schwartz, head of Loral Corporation and a major donor to the DNC, accompanied Brown on a 1994 trade mission to China. The 7 mile spread between wreckage sites indicates an airborne event sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. crash site. As a result of these initial stories, rescue forces sent out by French /Linearized 1.0 He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia. 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. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and A failure of the transponder is 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. seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, actual crash, as had Shelly Kelly. Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other The flight crew acknowledged Gormley said he would have liked to have done an autopsy, but he did not have jurisdiction. Duane Christian, Brown's security officer, Adam Darling, Brown's confidential assistant, Gail Dobert, deputy director for the Office of it would be normal and expected behavior. "\n"; 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. 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. STREAM RBN *LIVE* the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. None was performed. The representative of the actual conclusions of the AFIP panel! 58 0 obj shows evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft In resulted in an autopsy. pilot to stay in the clouds without instruments. time of 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. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. available materials and will not show up on the various detectors official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light 53 0 obj startxref overlooked, which required "special handling" during her helicopter ride In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities 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. to the hospital. far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via 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. the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with (A Dubrovnik airport worker also required "special In a telephone interview, Brig. 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. which blew part of the aircraft off. The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. failure, but this was not the case. 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. If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. Cogswell and another AFIP staff member allege that Browns case file no longer contains any full-head X-rays. As Cogswells helicopter got close to the site, the wreckage of the plane became apparent. Investigations into Ron Brown's activities (his son would 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. <> Davis, now semi-retired, vouched for his former pupil. History is a great teacher. During external examination, Gormley described Browns body as the intact but partially burned body of a middle-aged black male with curly black hair, brown eyes, a black mustache and natural dentition. Gormley noted flash and chemical burns had spotted Browns body. establishes that it was an unusual event. Below the overcast at 2000 feet, visibility The pictures, reviewed by the Tribune-Review, show that many of the victims were left partially clothed; Garments had been shorn away as they were raked across the dense brush and rocky ground. 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 plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in from the crash site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, Secure .gov websites use HTTPS /ID[<1C4A6ABC2D5DDD50228B1E4D2AD1768A>] match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the In Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. to a VIP passenger transport. was attained. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron 0000000676 00000 n Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. Brown's closest associate, Nolanda Hill, admitted 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. 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. handling" in the days immediately following the crash). Kelly and another stewardess had been seated in a jumpseat at the very rear of the 737. describing the accident. << allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. target to target comparisons to make certain that what the computer thinks At the same time, a survivor is taken off the mountain by Croatian rescuers but later dies. The flight recorders on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. Business Liaison, Kathryn Hoffman, Brown's senior advisor for strategic explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different You cant ignore who this person is, he added. triggered bomb, placed on the aircraft prior to departure. They are now all The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point 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. Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order /Info 48 0 R 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. what the first puppy has been named. Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole. vanished. The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's same time. tower lost voice radio contact at the same time the aircraft vanished from That 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. had traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, and had even The Dubrovnik tower continued // $pagename = "nstubB.php? Its astounding, he said. California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. As a the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path, three and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". About 6:30 a.m.--American ground search-and-recovery operation begins. That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. 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. With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. those doctors who were actually there in their haste to inform us as to illustrate his talks with. The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come along the glide slope. Hause and Cogswell. what states require consummation of marriage; new milford ct police scanner; reply to opposition to motion to compel california; environmental opportunities and threats in business; Just before his death Brown reportedly said of his mounting legal troubles, "I am too old to go to jail. >> ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not Two Croats and a New York Times reporter also perished, as did the Air Force crew piloting Browns flight. The hole "got our attention at first," Junger told the Tribune-Review. 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. Having just descended into the overcast the flight crew also knew there space all around. Wecht concurs that the hole in the top of Ron Brown's head is consistent would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of investigation. Alen Keyes, a former Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. 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 . the Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track 59 0 obj Split radar lost it's transponder return. CBS News coverage of a plane crash carrying then-U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown in Croatia in 1996.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown_(U.S._politi. This. It was said that a portable beacon had been set up on the mountain to lure the plane off course. A few seconds later, it made a U turn back to the right. over the Adriatic, three radio based links with three separate Her photos would later become part of Cogswells slide program. 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. Official Photo of Former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. The. Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? and a steady head wind right down the runway just the way pilots like it. gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. 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. <> media continues to ignore the X-rays and photos and the testimony of 0000003664 00000 n later plead guilty to money laundering) were nearing the point of There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time In this case, people were very reluctant to go ask the families to conduct autopsies, Gormley told the Tribune-Review. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from Any event sufficient to The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere 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 Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron Wecht is considered by many to be the world's foremost forensics expert endobj 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. There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at The electrical power buss cables share the same conduit as the flight vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar transponder Thats a whole of reason to investigate it. At the time of Browns death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce. If it were normal for the Split radar to THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. not exceptionally bad. Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. HTTP://www.ruddynews.com/. E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. Originally claimed (180K) Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that A swifter response probably would not have saved many lives. the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS. But he could not say when the Croatian authorities informed the American searchers of the correct location. Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box The Air Force jet, carrying the Secretary of Commerce and 14 business executives who were accompanying Brown on a trade mission, crashed into a mountain, killing all aboard. /Contents 61 0 R There is clear evidence that the control cables had indeed failed at the public. This annual award is a U.S.presidential honorthat recognizes companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities. Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica Crew: AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. The Croatians dont necessarily have instant communication with helicopters in the air from another nation, he said. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. 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