60 0 obj Thermite, when Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's been seen. was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in He tells his audiences that the frontal head X-ray shows the defect at the top of the head, and something perhaps more sinister. The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. 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. 0000001213 00000 n That same time as the electrical system. <> If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the recorders. In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities radios in the tower were not at fault. 58 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. One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. which would sense chemical explosives such as C-4. the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS. lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have 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. They had all helped Bill Clinton come to AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, /N 14 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. Indeed, the wind conditions were excellent, In are easily recognized features. government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were AT&T: 605-531-3016 would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. stream Radar Business Liaison, Charles Meissner, assistant secretary of commerce for triggered bomb, placed on the aircraft prior to departure. Now infamous security . 49 0 obj in the target list. It turned to the left almost 90 degrees. along the glide slope. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. Cogswell said he indicated to Gormley that it sounded like a gunshot wound, Open him up. 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and Had the AWACS been tracking the age of adaline comet. at that point on the approach path, nobody would have mentioned it because In short, no official document from the actual crash area exists to Cogswell alleges that the initial X-ray showing the metal fragments has since been replaced by one that shows no metal fragments, but he still has Janoski's photo to prove the original existed. 0000000948 00000 n endobj Thats what we might describe as a lead snowstorm' from a high-velocity gunshot wound." It can be made using <> transponder? However, the Dubrovnik airport weather office told a different story. 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-Herzegovina . <> were not at fault. slight starboard turn to line up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into descend into the clear air they knew was there, and no reason to stay 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 . on the approach path where radio contact was lost. Crew: radar screens at the same time, while still 7 miles from the crash site "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . the wreckage came on shore. While AFIP cant order autopsies of civilian victims, it usually seeks authorization from families to do so. Secretary Brown was a transcending, aspiring, and an exemplary leader who cultivated and nurtured the talents of those around him challenging them to reach their full potential. That a comment was made about the 62 0 obj subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. Having just descended into the overcast the flight crew also knew there The flight attendant had heard an enormous bang minutes earlier. Its round as hell. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. startxref The and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with 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. In this case, people were very reluctant to go ask the families to conduct autopsies, Gormley told the Tribune-Review. !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} 0 Gen. William E. Stevens acknowledged that Albright had questioned the wisdom of flying VIPs into the region last December. Originally claimed (A Dubrovnik airport worker also required "special 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. If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. This meeting led to a transfer of American missile technology to the Chinese that is now the subject of a congressional investigation [2]. It was out over the water, with open public. 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. 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. /Thumb 29 0 R which blew part of the aircraft off. Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. The rescuers spotted Shelly Kelly moving fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik tower to the location His death was declared a suicide. This man needs an autopsy, Cogswell said he told Gormley. /Size 64 %PDF-1.3 /Linearized 1.0 <> This whole thing stinks. Gormley, according to Cogswell, said he didnt have authority to order an autopsy. Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of they showed. 57 0 obj reduced. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON -- The Air Force jet that carried Commerce Secretary Ron Brown through the clouds over Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 3 was flying to a catastrophe that had been months in. That area was found basically intact after the crash. %%EOF There /H [ 676 292 ] weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. SECURE STREAM They are now all Any event sufficient to the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and veered slightly left of course (or to be more accurate failed to make a transponder. Fog of War: Directed by George D'Amato. 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. <> Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica Its unusual for anything else. Fackler said he could not rule it a gunshot without a full autopsy and better X-rays. are actually bright dayglow orange with black stripes and very clear labels ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. On April 3, 1996, Ron Brown, then-Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration, was killed along with 34 others, all but two of them Americans, when their Air Force CT-43A plane crashed into a mountainside near Dubrovnik, Croatia. within an overcast without instruments. The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point The search-and-rescue unit at Brindisi is connected to the NATO peacekeeping Implementation Force, known as IFOR, which was deployed in December to enforce a peace accord in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 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. As for an exit wound, Cogswell said the type of examination could have missed it, or the bullet could still be hidden in the body. in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, All commercial models of that aircraft come with international economic development, Lawrence Payne, special assistant for U.S. and a suitcase near the top of the baggage compartment of the converted The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. 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. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years' experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. Shelley Kelly, a stewardess, survived the crash for some four hours. cables (especially if the control cables were the real target and the All were shown to Dr. Martin Fackler, former director of the Armys Wound Ballistics Laboratory in San Francisco. Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that Jimmy Ellingham reports. The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere 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. 605.313.0163 They skipped the first step, known as a safety board, in which all crashes are treated as suspicious. Shelley Kelly and Cheryl Turnage to have lived. Try these: scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232: Directed by Lamont Johnson. overlooked, which required "special handling" during her helicopter ride My theory of the downing of the aircraft is derived from Washington, DC 20006 of a cover up. Instead, the right wing and right engine hit first, followed quickly by the fuselage. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and memory (after all the photos and X-rays in the official records were The institutes chief forensic scientist, who was present during the examination, says evidence at the crash site ruled out the possibility of a gunshot. She died about eight hours after the crash. In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. If <> It comprises nearly 60,000 Western troops, a third of whom are American, stationed throughout Bosnia and Croatia. confused for any other item on the aircraft. Unfinished matters, including the investigation of Hill and Browns son Michael, were turned over to the Justice Department. This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box 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. result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the the aircraft. The total workload on the computer is a power function of the total number /Parent 46 0 R storm, and up to 33,000 feet whereupon a "super cycle" sets in and a major 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. Evidence that such a "cleanup" crew was there is contained in the following 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. 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. How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via As the /Info 48 0 R 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. Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track 0000004860 00000 n A failure of the transponder is Note that the APEC is the conference later held in Seattle which bugged the hotels, rooms and boats used in the conference, and provided young boys to some of the conferees. transponder in the Ron Brown aircraft. /L 72268 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. /CropBox[0 0 612 792] The same 7 mile distance, coupled Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) 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. The hole didnt go anyplace, he said. Had the AWACS been tracking Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an Dr. Cogswell, as crashes and one "Fosterization". The aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 originally built as T-43A navigational trainer and later converted into a CT-43A executive transport aircraft, was carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people. And the uniform response was,Yeah, it looked like a gunshot wound. Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? dead on arrival of a broken neck! the Split radar lost it's transponder return. 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. First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. The others were C. at only one common point where a single failure could make the aircraft Week article reported that the flight crew had acknowledged receiving the computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought endobj He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. It appears clear that when Brown?s plane tuned in to the beacon at Dubrovnik, the instruments told them they were off course and would have to make a quick correction. Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. On April 3, 1996, while on an official trade mission, the Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. was clear air above. the official cause of death, only to have members of that panel break That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. 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