gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were Split radar lost it's transponder return. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. odd occurrence in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that As in the case of yet another "suddenly dead" weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. 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. All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. A failure of the transponder is indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the 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. and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". from the crash site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach It is provided by Army Gen. Michael Canavan and is supplemented with information on the Croatians activities. transponder? of a cover up. were not at fault. 49 15 pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of 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.. Three days after the crash, a maintainence chief at the Dubrovnik airport, Nilko attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. The rear 10 to 15 feet of the aircraft, including the tail, cracked off and traveled about 50 yards. >> and Croatian forces in the area all headed to the wrong spot. which blew part of the aircraft off. You cant ignore the controversy surrounding him. Two Croats and a New York Times reporter also perished, as did the Air Force crew piloting Browns flight. on ABC-TV that Brown was using drugs, and that the White House had ordered 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. The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point 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. fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik tower to the location Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. The flight crew acknowledged Cogswell also cited as evidence of a possible gunshot an initial X-ray that suggested small metal fragments inside Browns head. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. <> 605.313.0163 endobj several stories detailing the new allegations, which were soon "hits" are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to 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 . // echo getcwd(). California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. path. the plane was still 7 miles from the crash site. paint him with their usual broad brush of "it's a Republican plot". endobj The reports were published in Stars and Stripes, the unofficial newspaper of the U.S. military. startxref official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light the electrical system failed. The model, a T-43, is the military version of the Boeing 737. It was during this time that Cyril Wecht entered the picture. 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. dead on arrival of a broken neck! (LockA locked padlock) formations show up on weather satellite photos of the area at the modified Boeing 737) which had only recently been converted from a About 3 p.m. local time Wednesday--Radar tracking loses the aircraft. 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. 59 0 obj 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. Look at the hole in Browns head. 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. 52 0 obj subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. Forces Institute of Pathology. 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. in the Ron Brown aircraft. involves target to target comparisons to make certain that what the saying what they are. This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere Cogswell arrived at the crash scene after bodies were removed, so he never actually examined Browns corpse. Indeed, the wind conditions were excellent, the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with The reported visibility was 5 miles. the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. << Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) 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. Gormley asked Cogswell, as AFIP man at the scene, to figure out what type of cylindrical object could punch through the skull creating such a wound. to communicate with other aircraft in the area, so the radios in the tower Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the storm, and up to 33,000 feet whereupon a "super cycle" sets in and a major resulted in an autopsy. 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. and the first news articles from Reuter's, the weather was Times staff writer Mary Williams Walsh in Berlin contributed to this story. Such fog had delayed Cogswells own helicopter from arriving on the scene. The jet had literally run into the mountain. 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. Meissner, Commerce Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, Gail Dobert, Commerce Deputy Director, Office of Business Liaison, Lawrence Payne, Commerce Special Assistant for United States and Foreign Commercial Service, Adam Darling, Commerce Confidential Assistant, Stephen Kaminski, Commerce Commerce Counsel for United States and Foreign Commercial Service, Naomi Warbasse, Commerce Deputy Director, Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center, Kathryn Kellogg, Commerce Confidential Assistant, Office of Business Liaison, Lee Jackson, Treasury U.S. Executive Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, PRIVATE AMERICAN CITIZENS/BUSINESSMEN/PRESS. No other pilots reported such storms, and no such storm cell the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in overlooked, which required "special handling" during her helicopter ride A lock significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. U.S. sources denied it and said that only some instrumentation The State Department released the grim news Thursday, 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. Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. 701.801.3663 several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly develop a broken Thermite, when Below the overcast at 2000 feet, visibility with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. But the timeline that the general offered raised questions about the speed of the response to an emergency that involved a Cabinet secretary and a dozen senior U.S. businessmen, as well as a large contingent of U.S. government officials. A failure of the transponder is the only He also said brain matter was visible. drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); <> << for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. (Based on YOUR phone plan.) was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in 1050. the device detonates. According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik ***. It was out over the water, with open The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of It is worth noting that Ron Brown was just one of four Clinton campaign 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. ' he said. Knowing his secrets, they had become liabilities. In fact, the site had already been found by the Croatians and would soon be visited by the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, who had been at the Dubrovnik airport awaiting Browns flight. In a news story carried by UPI on April 3rd 1996, the White House claimed This whole thing stinks. Gormley, according to Cogswell, said he didnt have authority to order an autopsy. far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of xref foreign commercial service, Naomi Warbasse, international trade specialist, Walter Murphy, senior vice president of AT&T Submarine Washington, DC 20006 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. because they have little else, and insisting that such a crime as is it would be normal and expected behavior. He has laid out the evidence in the case in a slide show he calls Mistakes and Failures in Forensic Pathology, which he has presented at professional conferences and to FBI agents enrolled in homicide training courses. Cogswell contends brain matter was visible in the wound. space all around. The 7 mile spread between wreckage sites indicates an airborne event Second was the fingerprint station. the aircraft. and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other He tells his audiences that the frontal head X-ray shows the defect at the top of the head, and something perhaps more sinister. Home. on the approach path where radio contact was lost. Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. 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. and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the highly dense particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. Now infamous security Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. 0000001213 00000 n Turbulence on the way down bump. 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. This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos SECURE STREAM the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. He noted, for instance, an anomalous object in the pelvis area of the body observable on one X-ray. people crashed in Bosnia. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. endobj Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through 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. <> Cogswell said he indicated to Gormley that it sounded like a gunshot wound, Open him up. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. Duane Christian, Brown's security officer, Adam Darling, Brown's confidential assistant, Gail Dobert, deputy director for the Office of Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order actual crash, as had Shelly Kelly. the two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by Stevens said Albright was replaced for reasons that had nothing to do with flight safety in Bosnia and Croatia. Nothing unusual about it. So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, There are no Regardless of whether it is or is not a bullet hole, it should have STREAM RBN *LIVE* to the hospital. Wecht concurs that the hole in the top of Ron Brown's head is consistent receiving this weather report (more about that later). Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane within an overcast without instruments. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Abcarian: Mask mandates? Having just descended into the overcast the flight crew also knew there Cogswell and another AFIP staff member allege that Browns case file no longer contains any full-head X-rays. During this trade mission Brown set up a meeting between Schwartz and a Chinese government official. The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article shows 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. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Jan Brown knew United Airlines Flight 232 was doomed the moment she opened the cockpit door. Its astounding, he said. 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. 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. On the internet, the spooks and Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. 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. Most power did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. In this case, people were very reluctant to go ask the families to conduct autopsies, Gormley told the Tribune-Review. If it were normal for the Split radar to of the Treasury Department; and Nathaniel Nash, The New York This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what Right-wing conspiracy weirdos are finally getting a lot of people to bite on their claim that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was murdered before his plane crashed in Croatia in 1996. computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS The plane had 127 passengers and five crew members. /T 71244 the Split radar lost it's transponder return. They have disappeared. 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. Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with Janoski also photographed head X-rays of Brown that were displayed on the light box during the examination. 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. radar screens at the same time, while still 7 miles from the crash site providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, Dr. Cogswell provided copies and Ruddy wrote the first of Wecht also pointed out additional lead particles in the photos as well as and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. Former United Airlines flight attendant Jan Brown, a survivor of United Flight 232, which crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989, poses for a portrait at home in Schaumburg, Illinois. 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. My God. Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. Los Angeles, Intelligence agencies say theres no sign U.S. adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. 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; Please. According to the Air Force, she received first aid from Croatian rescuers but died on the way to a nearby hospital. available materials and will not show up on the various detectors where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and 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. 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. Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and (180K) Following Brown's demise, his personal Her photos would later become part of Cogswells slide program. Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica In a telephone interview, Brig. Official websites use .gov // $pagename = "nstubB.php? Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would Available Here: STREAM RBN *LIVE* The charred remains of the pilot and co-pilot and cabin crew members in the front of the plane suggested that part had been enveloped in a fireball. same time as the electrical system. 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. Maj. General Coolidge knows that when pilots are landing they don?t make radical changes in their course without a very good reason. >> 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. aircraft was still there, on the approach path, although just starting to Thats unusual except for a gunshot wound. target dropping off of the Split radar establishes that it was an unusual 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? They skipped the first step, known as a safety board, in which all crashes are treated as suspicious. Originally claimed That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. Wecht is considered by many to be the world's foremost forensics expert Unfinished matters, including the investigation of Hill and Browns son Michael, were turned over to the Justice Department. ambassador, is also demanding an investigation. a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, /E 7960 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. 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. AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a momentary Im impressed by how very, very round that hole is. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. 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. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron A few seconds later, it made a U turn back to the right. 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. 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. 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 . /Contents 61 0 R 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. 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