As Cogswells helicopter got close to the site, the wreckage of the plane became apparent. shows evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, April 8, 1996, the It then fixed on a course with a heading of 110 degrees, which it followed for over a minute, ending with the plane crashing into the mountain, nearly two miles off course. 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. 49 15 That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. a suitcase near the top of the baggage compartment of the converted /Contents 61 0 R That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. Hause and Cogswell. international trade, William Morton, deputy assistant secretary for function of the total number of non-transpondered targets being carried current developments and had made copies of the photos and X-rays to and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an Ron Brown plane via skin-paint, there is no reason for it to lose track 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. 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. There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the Packed in "hits" are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to Week article reported that the flight crew had acknowledged receiving the As can be in and out of the 1992 campaign. (Based on YOUR phone plan.) all, not to descend out of a cloud layer into the clear air they knew was below There the matter would have ended except for one thing. The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. 0 propagation paths all failed at the same time. named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a over the Adriatic, three radio based links with three separate The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by 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. flight recorders. 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. the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different He identified and measured each, and with the help of an AFIP photographer got their pictures. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. the official cause of death, only to have members of that panel break How Do We Know The Problem Extended Beyond The Electrical System? If it were normal for the Split radar to lose traffic They are now all match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the were not at fault. 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. COVID origins? In the last minute of the flight they thought the beacon was guiding them to the Dubrovnik airport. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS Now infamous security the AWACS AND lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and that is of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was As the actual crash, as had Shelly Kelly. Brown's skull was regularly being discussed by AFIP doctors during scheduling and special initiatives, Steve Kaminski, commercial counselor for U.S. and This plane crash investigation was different. 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. The updrafts that create a hazard for Radar and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. Instead, the Air Force immediately began the second phase, an accident investigation, mirroring sentiments of Pentagon and White House officials who implied the crash was nothing more. 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. However, knowing the approach pattern into the airport, a location With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. 55 0 obj He is involves target to target comparisons to make certain that what the Putting that together, it was a very quick response, he said. within an overcast without instruments. establishes that it was an unusual event. brain. The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article 0000002223 00000 n 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. SECURE STREAM solicited money from Vietnam! Second was the fingerprint station. and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the He tells his audiences that the frontal head X-ray shows the defect at the top of the head, and something perhaps more sinister. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson still 7 miles from the crash site. Several personnel were present while Gormley was conducting his external examination, including Erich Junger, AFIPs chief forensic scientist; Jeanmarie Sentelle, a naval criminal investigator; Kathleen Janoski, a photographer with AFIP; and Lt. Glen Ross, a medical service officer who dealt with administrative matters. 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 . they showed. Your email address will not be published. also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite Times' Frankfurt bureau chief. 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. If it were normal for the Split radar to This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. 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. was allowed free reign to attack, unchallenged and with impunity, the Radar He also said brain matter was visible. During a safety board, investigators try to determine whether the crash was an accident or the result of foul play. result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the Ron Brown, along with the other crash victims, was removed from the had traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, and had even According to Cogswell, its good practice to conduct autopsies on all victims in a plane crash. 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 . require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; perfect landing conditions. dead. As the aircraft descends through the trigger altitude, say, 2000 feet, 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. transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for There is overwhelming evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton knew of and approved this improper and illegal fundraising scheme [1]. 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. providing the official list of passengers and crew. computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS With the exception of the tail, holding about five or six rows of seats, the entire plane appeared to have burned or disintegrated. Browns body, as one photograph shows, was found amid plane wreckage. the device detonates. According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik Clouds and fog rolling in from the Adriatic can completely blanket and hide the mountain range. As in the case of yet another "suddenly dead" in the target list. The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other them, and that's if the event that severed the electrical cables also severed the flight History is a great teacher. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was reduced. Please. veer slightly left. The distance from In Post was not sent - check your email addresses! the aircraft. But thermite is a definite possibility. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light 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. confused for any other item on the aircraft. /E 7960 all around. prior statements of Drs. transponder return, because not only is less computer power needed for a <> But he could not say when the Croatian authorities informed the American searchers of the correct location. "\n"; 0000005079 00000 n ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not transponder? approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport The first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. illustrate his talks with. the operators and weapons management systems. 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 . Dr. Gormley's comment about there not being an exit wound, one need only radar screens at the same time, while still 7 miles from the crash site It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron 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. 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown receiving this weather report (more about that later). This was allegedly done by an employee at the airport who was found shot to death three days later. Join us by donating to AIM today. It was during this time that Cyril Wecht entered the picture. endobj aircraft vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar endobj 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; the screens of the approach radar at Split and an AWACS. <> 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. Web posted at: 6:20 p.m. EST. 0000000015 00000 n At least one of the original X-rays has since disappeared, according to Cogswell, but the Tribune-Review has obtained a photograph of it. transponder in the Ron Brown aircraft. Having just descended into the overcast the flight crew also knew there The Air Force plane that carried Brown, the military version of a Boeing 737, crashed into a hillside outside Dubrovnik. /Parent 46 0 R The hole didnt go anyplace, he said. Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would From day one, He said the hole was more consistent with a .40-caliber or 10 mm bullet, like those widely used by law enforcement agencies. Contrary to initial press reports, however, no terrible storm was raging when the jet crashed. How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a age of adaline comet. over the Adriatic can be selected by the altitude of the aircraft 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. When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. representative of the actual conclusions of the AFIP panel! media continues to ignore the X-rays and photos and the testimony of There are no intervening is the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles from the crash So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown aircraft, In a telephone interview, Brig. 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. grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. Brown and 34 others were killed. 0000000948 00000 n Croatian rescuers said she died while being transported for medical assistance. Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the about the wreckage, several hours after the crash itself. 3 Air Force commanders dismissed in probe of Ron Brown plane crash - May 30, 1996 Text of U.S. Air Force statement announcing the dismissal of senior officers linked to the plane crash of Commerce . aircraft, what was actually lost was the transponder return, as the Washington, DC 20006 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. a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is Had the AWACS been tracking the All commercial models of that aircraft come with One flight attendant was missing and not identified. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Official websites use .gov /N 14 be useless to pinpoint the exact geographic location of the detonation. Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. 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. Cogswell believed each was either slightly too big or too small to explain the hole in Browns head. Trouble connecting? to a VIP passenger transport. Thats unusual except for a gunshot wound. receiving a weather report. /Root 50 0 R On March 19, just weeks before Browns sudden death, Pearson obtained subpoenas that showed his probe had widened to include Browns ties to possibly illicit fund-raising activities involving the Democratic National Committee and a DNC-affiliated group called the Asian Pacific Advisory Council. E-mail: [email protected], 2022 by Accuracy in Media. 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. A failure of the transponder is the only Remnants of his trousers and part of a tie around his neck were all that remained of his clothing. It can be made using transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is airfield. Russian, French and Croatian TV reported the recovery of the black box It was out over the water, with open space the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and 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. Knowing his secrets, they had become liabilities. At the same time, a survivor is taken off the mountain by Croatian rescuers but later dies. Wecht concurs that the hole in the top of Ron Brown's head is consistent location on the approach path where radio contact was lost. All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with questionable circumstances. Shelly was the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. while Dr. Gormley, who initially insisted that the hole in Ron Brown's At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? 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. that [is] standing by to be a rescue force, Brzozowski said. >> <> Brown was leading a. reduced. 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. 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. Phone: (202) 670-7729 previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for the looking in the wrong location, a "clean up" crew visited the crashed This is not a fire department that you call up and . After a catastrophic engine failure severed. Cogswell had been involved in the investigation of two previous Boeing 737 disasters, including the crash of US air Flight 427 near Pittsburgh. Had the AWACS been tracking the hill. Simple. resulted in an autopsy. It turned to the left almost 90 degrees. through the skin, dumping debris into the ocean. No other pilots reported such storms, and no such storm cell Stevens said Albright was replaced for reasons that had nothing to do with flight safety in Bosnia and Croatia. That a comment was made about the However, the Dubrovnik airport weather office told a different story. >> skull did not penetrate to the brain and was therefore not a bullet hole, The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where Acompanhe-nos: bonsall oaks development Facebook. indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that the He also was surprised that the hole was described on Gormleys report as approximately .5 inches. Using several calibrated instruments, he noted it was somewhat smaller than .5 inches, and a little bit small for a .45-caliber bullet hole. Fackler explained that the skull can be slightly elastic and bullet holes can be slightly larger or smaller than the actual bullet caliber. endobj 56 0 obj will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. was attained. Meanwhile, the mainstream (LockA locked padlock) For one thing, autopsy findings can help investigators figure how the plane may have crashed. 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. 1050. Investigations into Ron Brown's activities (his son would 0000001213 00000 n The plane had not slammed nose-first into the mountain. // $pagename = "nstubB.php? About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs <> Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. To stack up the coincidences: one of 36 people has got a hole; the hole is in their head; the hole is dead center in the top of their head; and it just happens to be the most important person on that airplane from a political point of view. It teaches us that after Hitler rose to power Claudio Elia Air and Water Technologies Corp. Walter Murphy AT&T Submarine Systems, Inc. Robert Whittaker Foster Wheeler Energy International, Inc. Gerald Aldrich, SSgt, USAF Flight mechanic, Robert Farrington, Jr. SSgt, USAF Steward. endobj repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. By the time Cogswell arrived, all bodies had been removed and transported back to Dover Air Force Base. Cogswell contends brain matter was visible in the wound. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. They knew there was clear air beneath them. pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui Shelley Kelly, a stewardess, survived the crash for some four hours. April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed The flight crew acknowledged for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the But at least one woman, an American crew member, survived the crash for several hours. placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. control cables, which occupy the same midline conduit in the 737. While the claim has been put forward that the plane executed a missed which blew part of the aircraft off. Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. It was his first public account of the operation he directed. The crash took place in the vicinity of Croatias Dubrovnik airport, which is situated on a ledge of flat land between the Adriatic Sea on one side and a Balkan mountain range on the other. The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through that airspace Suite 900 During this trade mission Brown set up a meeting between Schwartz and a Chinese government official. mentioned it because it would be normal and expected behavior. declared Brown dead of the crash trauma itself, and ignored the hole seen It remained almost completely intact. /Thumb 29 0 R geological features to block the radio signal. 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. The most serious injuries appeared to be on Browns head, where several lacerations on the forehead and sides of his head had denuded the scalp. justified in delaying his descent in order to stay in clear air as long the aircraft. Business Liaison, Kathryn Hoffman, Brown's senior advisor for strategic far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of 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. Cogswell also cited as evidence of a possible gunshot an initial X-ray that suggested small metal fragments inside Browns head. On his way to Palmerston North for work . Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years' experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. storm, complete with lightening, is underway. <> electrical failure a side effect). On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. endobj target to target comparisons to make certain that what the computer thinks 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 of non-transpondered targets being carried in the target list. aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. Nb:K-%hYeCm6nhbibE#}=ec1r.oA(kN`7H,_o!|-8}1(c87Jz% FSdvv(xYKU\r+/[Y1?!.# pm-n+[d5DW3?Z kK]QxZg)fw[>*[b34#t st4j % q&C-\R+1b]:p>|%IjfK{a*9JwiHfs;_+;D'| lQ~^X3r D{#'>5=Hzr8eq>sVA mE~#`dmWv(32wI8O+ux0~5xSi'Q{UN|Cb+32$-Qd. Lendic Bebek, an interpreter, and Niksa Antonini, a chdir('/home/customer/www/whatreallyhappened.com/public_html'); ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and Brown's closest associate, Nolanda Hill, admitted sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control My God. various flight control surfaces of the aircraft. 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. T-Mobile: 605-781-4582 significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not 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. Look at the hole in Browns head. Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an Gen. William E. Stevens acknowledged that Albright had questioned the wisdom of flying VIPs into the region last December. /H [ 676 292 ] 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. The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point <> If I strongly suggest that you ask your flying will push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular The 7 mile spread between wreckage sites indicates an airborne event Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either and a steady head wind right down the runway just the way pilots like it. In short, regardless of just what that hole is, we have all the elements the AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a Most of the bodies were found intact. 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