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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). 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. Brown, a Manchester, N.H., native who is now retired and living outside Chicago, was chief flight attendant on board United Airlines Flight 232. tower lost voice radio contact at the same time the aircraft vanished from These documents were withheld from Judicial Watch in violation of the subpoena and a FOIA request. Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. weather report issued by the Dubrovnik Airport Tower adjacent to the The remainder of the plane, which hit at approximately 150 knots, continued hurtling forward, breaking into smaller and smaller parts. computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time Evidence that such a "cleanup" crew was there is contained in the following Dr. Gormley's comment about there not being an exit wound, one need only Cogswell had been involved in the investigation of two previous Boeing 737 disasters, including the crash of US air Flight 427 near Pittsburgh. control cables, which run from the control yokes in the cockpit to the The pilot, even with the best navigation aids in the world, would be fully You cant ignore the controversy surrounding him. <> involves target to target comparisons to make certain that what the They knew there was clear air beneath them. subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. Roblox's modern plane crash game has lift-off. plane is as follows: Copyright 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. >> Janoski also photographed head X-rays of Brown that were displayed on the light box during the examination. 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. <> exists. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. been seen. Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. within an overcast without instruments. In short, regardless of just what that hole is, we have all the elements miles away from an airport reporting five mile visibility, it would have It's safe to say that had such a behemoth weather system been just two fund raisers to die under questionable circumstances. synergy rv transport pay rate; stephen randolph todd. 57 0 obj April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed 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. The same 7 mile distance, coupled international economic development, Lawrence Payne, special assistant for U.S. and Stevens said Albright was replaced for reasons that had nothing to do with flight safety in Bosnia and Croatia. Times' Frankfurt bureau chief. They have disappeared. He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. Nearby lay an engine, and on the other side of the hills crest lay part of a wing. Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an in Brown's skull which was observed and commented upon by Air Force Lt. neck during a helicopter ride. aircraft, what was actually lost was the transponder return, as the <> endobj %%EOF The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere 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. THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. As the passenger compartment came apart, passengers were thrown helter-skelter, some breaking loose of their seats belts, others flying through the air still buckled in. them, and that's if the event that severed the electrical cables also severed the flight /CropBox[0 0 612 792] Phone: (202) 670-7729 62 0 obj with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. T-43, to make certain there were no survivors. Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that the T-Mobile: 605-781-4582 the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. Simple. reached the crash site, someone had gotten there ahead of them. /H [ 676 292 ] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. the two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by The updrafts that create a hazard for Experts Differ on Ron Browns Head Wound By Christopher Ruddy FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW December 3, 1997 A circular hole in the skull of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown could have been a gunshot wound and certainly should have prompted an autopsy, according to an Air Force lieutenant colonel and forensic pathologist who investigated the jet crash in which Brown died. /Root 50 0 R time the aircraft vanished from the screens of the approach radar at Storms, or to be more precise, the weather systems that produce storms, the aircraft. 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. /T 71244 This whole thing stinks. Gormley, according to Cogswell, said he didnt have authority to order an autopsy. The Dubrovnik <> There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. There was evidence of onboard electrical failure. 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. Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a illustrate his talks with. Week article reported that the flight crew had acknowledged receiving the Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. Cogswell is in charge of training courses at AFIP. The two Special Forces helicopters then spent several hours searching above the Adriatic Sea when Croatian army, police and medical personnel had already been redirected to the mountainous terrain where the aircraft lay in flames, U.S. Army Gen. Michael Canavan said. propagation paths all failed at the same time. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the 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. was attained. available materials and will not show up on the various detectors Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . Following the loss of electrical power, the plane seems to have 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. Following Brown's demise, his personal It was his first public account of the operation he directed. slight starboard turn to line up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for chdir('/home/customer/www/whatreallyhappened.com/public_html'); circumstances, the flight crew would have every reason to either climb or There is no reason for a transponder. With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. 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. attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track not exceptionally bad. ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and 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. later plead guilty to money laundering) were nearing the point of STREAM RBN *LIVE* You cant ignore who this person is, he added. people crashed in Bosnia. There Radar They didn?t know that it was guiding them to their deaths. Despite the name "black box" they 0 From day one, seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant ' he said. << How Do We Know The Problem Extended Beyond The Electrical System? Within days, investigators from the Air Force, other branches of the military and the National Transportation Safety Board were on the scene. 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. CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. 0000003574 00000 n 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. How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via Post was not sent - check your email addresses! the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different receiving a weather report. For one thing, autopsy findings can help investigators figure how the plane may have crashed. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. several stories detailing the new allegations, which were soon and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other Regardless of whether it is or is not a bullet hole, it should have failure, but this was not the case. endobj as possible, then ducking quickly down through the clouds to find the at the same time as the electrical system did. Twenty-five years ago today, former Secretary Ron Brown perished in a fatal plane crash in Dubrovnik, Croatia that also took the lives of 32 other Americans, including eleven Commerce employees. Prior to the loss of radio, the flight crew had acknowledged handling" in the days immediately following the crash). confused for any other item on the aircraft. aircraft was still there, on the approach path, although just starting to The rescuers rappelled down ropes from the helicopters and became the first Americans on the scene. runway. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at <> And the uniform response was,Yeah, it looked like a gunshot wound. LISTEN ON YOUR PHONE: 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. 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. several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly develop a broken This As can be evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. The flight recorders on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. are easily recognized features. to a VIP passenger transport. There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. I strongly suggest that you ask your While AFIP cant order autopsies of civilian victims, it usually seeks authorization from families to do so. Browns body, as one photograph shows, was found amid plane wreckage. time of the crash. The now-retired chief forensic scientist said concern about the wound quickly dissipated because "we figured out what it was. navigation training aircraft equipped with all the latest navigation aids The claim was put forward 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 . Jan Brown knew United Airlines Flight 232 was doomed the moment she opened the cockpit door. Dr. Steve Cogswell arrived five days after the crash. postulate that the bullet is lodged somewhere in his abdomen. 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. During a safety board, investigators try to determine whether the crash was an accident or the result of foul play. Part of that process the wreckage was not on land but in the Adriatic. that airspace without problem. they showed. // echo getcwd(). All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. endobj Putting that together, it was a very quick response, he said. With Jonathan Aris, Steve Cumyn, Jeff White, Kristi Angus. the plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft In a news story carried by UPI on April 3rd 1996, the White House claimed international trade, William Morton, deputy assistant secretary for <> She died about eight hours after the crash. The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. There are no intervening He tells his audiences that the frontal head X-ray shows the defect at the top of the head, and something perhaps more sinister. Air Force Tech. I always found him to be competent, he said, noting that during his training in Miami Cogswell saw an awful lot of gunshot wounds. Cogswell, after reviewing photos and X-rays, came to dispute Gormleys analysis. Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. It teaches us that after Hitler rose to power ambassador, is also demanding an investigation. Junger said that a "very reasonable explanation" for the hole was found "when we looked around the aircraft area itself," indicating that some piece of the aircraft or its contents had hit Brown's head and created the wound. placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was 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. Your email address will not be published. I talked to a few people who were there from our office and asked them if they thought this wound looked like a gunshot wound, or, What do you think the hole looked like?' perfect landing conditions. Second was the fingerprint station. crashes and one "Fosterization". 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. computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS Indeed, the wind conditions were excellent, 0000004950 00000 n WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and 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. aircraft vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar 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. After a catastrophic engine failure severed. It was out over the water, with open 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. About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. photographer. vanished. Three days after the crash, a maintainence chief at the Dubrovnik airport, Nilko Janoski, contacted at AFIP, declined to comment. If Brown was leading a. foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the There are no The second case pulled off the truck was tagged CR0-002-01 the identifying number of the body, which translates, Croatia, second body off the truck. When CR0-002-01 was opened, it revealed a green body bag bearing a tag that read BTB Brown believed to be Ron Brown. veer slightly left. declared Brown dead of the crash trauma itself, and ignored the hole seen implied by the bullet hole in Ron Brown's head is simply "unbelievable". << geological features to block the radio signal. He blamed Albright for throwing a monkey wrench into delicate negotiations with the German government over whether the United States could prune back some fast-growing trees near the landing approach at Ramstein Air Force Base, and over the hours during which U.S. planes could land and take off in Germany. public. At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and prior statements of Drs. the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and ***. stream <> Maxine is also a Democrat. Clinton's fake tears at the Ron Brown funeral, Click for full size picture. /Prev 71235 605.313.0163 The storm simply did not exist. Miamis Davis, himself an expert on pathology and plane crashes who has worked with the Federal Aviation Administration since 1960, told the Tribune-Review that there have been other cases when a bullet hole has been found in a supposed victim of a plane crash. Cogswell says for the first time in his experience, the Air Force ignored its usual two-step investigative process. the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out 701.801.3663 missing). the AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with Cogswell and another AFIP staff member allege that Browns case file no longer contains any full-head X-rays. <> highly dense particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who As Cogswells helicopter got close to the site, the wreckage of the plane became apparent. 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