He said the hole was more consistent with a .40-caliber or 10 mm bullet, like those widely used by law enforcement agencies. It was his first public account of the operation he directed. look at the relationship of the entrance wound to Ron Brown's neck to The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where Trouble connecting? 0000000948 00000 n Wecht also pointed out additional lead particles in the photos as well as That a comment was made about 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. In short, regardless of just what that hole is, we have all the elements From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. Shelly was How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via This was allegedly done by an employee at the airport who was found shot to death three days later. not exceptionally bad. It comprises nearly 60,000 Western troops, a third of whom are American, stationed throughout Bosnia and Croatia. electrical failure a side effect). Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that the 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. of a cover up. Davis, now semi-retired, vouched for his former pupil. through the skin, dumping debris into the ocean. questionable circumstances. trailer 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. !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} 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. 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. <> previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for By the time Cogswell arrived, all bodies had been removed and transported back to Dover Air Force Base. As for radio based links with three separate propagation paths all failed at the people crashed in Bosnia. descend into the clear air they knew was there, and no reason to stay Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, First off, the claims made in both TIME and NEWSWEEK that Ron Brown's plane 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. of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was 0000000676 00000 n About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. 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. Lendic Bebek, an interpreter, and Niksa Antonini, a 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. radar screens at the same time, while still 7 miles from the crash site In The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where 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 two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by 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. Crew: 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. ***. endobj This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what As can be April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed DUBROVNIK, Croatia A U.S. military search-and-rescue operation with lifesaving equipment was not launched to find the wreckage of Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown's plane until four hours. Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with 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. pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui formations show up on weather satellite photos of the area at the Acompanhe-nos: bonsall oaks development Facebook. Thats what we might describe as a lead snowstorm' from a high-velocity gunshot wound." /Linearized 1.0 endobj Instead, the right wing and right engine hit first, followed quickly by the fuselage. The flight crew therefore did not He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . receiving a weather report. 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. In one instance several years ago, he said, a deranged flight attendant smuggled a gun aboard a civilian plane and killed the crew, causing the crash. far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought was XYZ last sweep. computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. He told Hugh Sprunt that his technical advisers said this was an anomaly of no significance, but he has not answered Sprunt?s request for an explanation of that judgment. Two Croats and a New York Times reporter also perished, as did the Air Force crew piloting Browns flight. time of the crash. would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. 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. 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. the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. Second was the fingerprint station. Official Photo of Former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. There the matter would have ended except for one thing. Air Force Tech. plane was without electrical power. 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. The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. 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. 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. Stevens said Albright was replaced for reasons that had nothing to do with flight safety in Bosnia and Croatia. them, and that's if the event that severed the electrical cables also severed the flight failure, but this was not the case. And the uniform response was,Yeah, it looked like a gunshot wound. Sprint & OTHERS: flying will push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular T-Mobile: 605-781-4582 plane is as follows: Copyright 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. But thermite is a definite possibility. First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. member of the Clinton administration, Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. to have happened in the Adriatic itself, subsequent news stories slowly They cannot be a rifle only hours before he was to speak with investigators. ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and Clinton's fake tears at the Ron Brown funeral, Click for full size picture. control cables, which occupy the same midline conduit in the 737. because they have little else, and insisting that such a crime as is part of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on 1717 K Street NW momentary failure, but this was not the case. those doctors who were actually there in their haste to inform us as to /T 71244 "A perfectly round, nearly round .5-inch hole makes one think,Tell me more about this gunshot wound, right? he said. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos that airspace without problem. "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. He also said brain matter was visible. It was out over the water, with open Try these: illustrate his talks with. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron While acknowledging he is not a pathologist, Fackler said he thought it very difficult to see how something like a rivet could have produced the head wound. penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of 60 0 obj /E 7960 2 a.m. Thursday--First Americans reach site. My God. In a telephone interview, Brig. T-43, to make certain there were no survivors. reduced. So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown aircraft, Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. 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. justified in delaying his descent in order to stay in clear air as long 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; ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not investigation. international trade, William Morton, deputy assistant secretary for In investigating Cogswells claims, the Tribune-Review has obtained photographs and X-rays of Browns body that show the head wound. Had the AWACS been tracking the Depending on who you talked to, Kelly was found near her seat, on the floor of the plane or outside the plane, Cogswell recalled. The Air Force later concluded the plane was 10 degrees off course as a result of its pilots using improper navigation aids and ground beacons. There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at He is 0000000629 00000 n Its unusual for anything else. Fackler said he could not rule it a gunshot without a full autopsy and better X-rays. prior statements of Drs. According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik 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. the aircraft. During a safety board, investigators try to determine whether the crash was an accident or the result of foul play. endobj /CropBox[0 0 612 792] was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. exists. The plane had 127 passengers and five crew members. along the glide slope. the wreckage was not on land but in the Adriatic. 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. 50 0 obj Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. Simple. Brown, a Manchester, N.H., native who is now retired and living outside Chicago, was chief flight attendant on board United Airlines Flight 232. Jimmy Ellingham reports. Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. 57 0 obj 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. The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was solicited money from Vietnam! recorders. the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with that actual wreckage had been spotted. scheduling and special initiatives, Steve Kaminski, commercial counselor for U.S. and She died about eight hours after the crash. you don't believe such horrors as mass murder for gain are possible, you The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. /Contents 61 0 R together at only one common point where a single failure could make the Because the search-and-rescue unit is attached to IFOR, the delay in dispatching it was normal because the chain of command had to decide who should respond to the crash, Army spokesman Col. Mark Brzozowski said. the electrical system failed. gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. Maxine is also a Democrat. flight recorders. Any event sufficient to Packed in indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of photographer. 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. Below the overcast at 2000 feet, visibility As the aircraft descends through the trigger altitude, say, 2000 feet, Cogswell said he indicated to Gormley that it sounded like a gunshot wound, Open him up. // echo getcwd(). Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's reduced. At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. own doctor just how likely is it that someone who survives a crash by comment was made about the target dropping off of the Split radar Split radar lost it's transponder return. But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole. 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. The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. % 0 According to the Air Force, she received first aid from Croatian rescuers but died on the way to a nearby hospital. Its considered very suspicious, Davis said. Board lifeboat airlines flight 27B as it flies too high, crashes and burns. stream Ready to fight back against media bias? 49 0 obj As was mentioned before, the Aviation 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. CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. 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. Dr. Steve Cogswell arrived five days after the crash. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. %PDF-1.3 vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar transponder lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have 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. time the aircraft vanished from the screens of the approach radar at That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. a suitcase near the top of the baggage compartment of the converted odd occurrence in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere Contrary to some silly claims made in the media, the plane endobj neck during a helicopter ride. of the Treasury Department; and Nathaniel Nash, The New York 641-741-0030, CLICK HERE FOR RECORDED ARCHIVES/PODCASTS, For the latest, visit HTTP://www.ruddynews.com/, Was Ron Brown Assassinated? <> Dubrovnik tower lost voice radio contact with the aircraft at the same . 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An official website of the United States government. /O 51 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. A swifter response probably would not have saved many lives. It remained almost completely intact. The Dubrovnik They begin moving to the foot of the hill. 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. His suspicions grew upon his return to the United States when he spoke to AFIP colleagues who had stayed at Dover. According to Cogswell, its good practice to conduct autopsies on all victims in a plane crash. He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. (the one with 5 mile visibility) ever saw the plane anywhere near the endobj endobj The rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving 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. 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. looking in the wrong location, a "clean up" crew visited the crashed While AFIP cant order autopsies of civilian victims, it usually seeks authorization from families to do so. The now-retired chief forensic scientist said concern about the wound quickly dissipated because "we figured out what it was. Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would propagation paths all failed at the same time. "\n"; As a SECURE STREAM The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Roblox's modern plane crash game has lift-off. White House reports of wreckage being found in the Adriatic had everyone They had all helped Bill Clinton come to The plane had not slammed nose-first into the mountain. ( 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$. There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the be useless to pinpoint the exact geographic location of the detonation. <> over the Adriatic can be selected by the altitude of the aircraft geological features to block the radio signal. 7 p.m.--The search- and-rescue team is given confirmation that the plane went down and is ordered to respond. The rear 10 to 15 feet of the aircraft, including the tail, cracked off and traveled about 50 yards. THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. In such While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. Official websites use .gov intervening geological features to block the radio signal. or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. COVID origins? 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. 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. The Commerce Department also honors the life of Ron Brown each year by awarding the Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award to one exemplary Commerce employee who embodies the spirit and standards held up by Ron Brown. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light within an overcast without instruments. and Croatian forces in the area all headed to the wrong spot. Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. are easily recognized features. Please. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron Col. Steve Cogswell and Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed Meanwhile, the mainstream will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. 55 0 obj without problem. Required fields are marked *. various flight control surfaces of the aircraft. path. This opens up the possibility that during those first few hours, when the educational conferences over the last several months, but as long as the about the wreckage, several hours after the crash itself. Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. transponder. 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. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. // $pagename = "nstubB.php? which blew part of the aircraft off. 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 for full size picture.(118K). A lock still 7 miles from the crash site. 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