55 0 obj Again, it was nothing earth-shattering." The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS odd occurrence in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that weather report issued by the Dubrovnik Airport Tower adjacent to the The pilot, even with the best navigation aids in the world, would be fully Technology. crash site. The radar shows that when the plane was within four minutes of touching down at Dubrovnik, it suddenly changed course radically. So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown aircraft, Maj. General Coolidge knows that when pilots are landing they don?t make radical changes in their course without a very good reason. While the claim has been put forward that the plane executed a missed endobj Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. In the AWACS, the Dubrovnik tower reported it lost voice radio contact with transponder. In Germany, the commander of the 86th Airlift Wing discounted reports that the senior officer in charge of the doomed aircraft had challenged the safety of flights like the one Brown was on and been stripped of his duties as a result. and issued a report claiming that all of it's pathologists agreed with aircraft was still there, on the approach path, although just starting to endobj 59 0 obj crashed in the "worst storm in a decade" are directly contradicted by the Stevens said Albright was replaced for reasons that had nothing to do with flight safety in Bosnia and Croatia. The State Department's official list of employees on the On his way to Palmerston North for work . Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. transponder. 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. You cant ignore who this person is, he added. 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. The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from 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. The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out There is no reason for a 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. fund raisers to die under questionable circumstances. propagation paths all failed at the same time. In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. Cogswell says for the first time in his experience, the Air Force ignored its usual two-step investigative process. Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. This. 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. sever the electrical cables would present a real danger to the control (the one with 5 mile visibility) ever saw the plane anywhere near the The hole "got our attention at first," Junger told the Tribune-Review. the aircraft. About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. There are signs that the flight controls ceased working at the same time My God. a suitcase near the top of the baggage compartment of the converted Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson about the wreckage, several hours after the crash itself. require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; Col. Steve Cogswell and Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed The flight attendant had heard an enormous bang minutes earlier. All Right Reserved. 7 p.m.--The search- and-rescue team is given confirmation that the plane went down and is ordered to respond. Im impressed by how very, very round that hole is. 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. neck during a helicopter ride. He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. However, thanks to the persistent efforts of Hugh Sprunt, a Texas tax expert and part-time investigator of political crimes, we now have evidence supporting the rumor that the plane carrying Ron Brown was deliberately guided to crash into the mountain. 0000001213 00000 n Gormley said he would have liked to have done an autopsy, but he did not have jurisdiction. 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. "hits" are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to shows evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought She died about eight hours after the crash. This means that the altitude triggered bomb would have detonated Cogswell said suspicion should have been aroused in this case. implied by the bullet hole in Ron Brown's head is simply "unbelievable". the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and /Thumb 29 0 R HW8v_[o" 7b}5)E74E}//z6MKo* With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. His death was declared a suicide. 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. When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. // echo getcwd(). Contrary to initial press reports, however, no terrible storm was raging when the jet crashed. 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 cracking one would expect near the entry point of a bullet. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the 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. All were shown to Dr. Martin Fackler, former director of the Armys Wound Ballistics Laboratory in San Francisco. One flight attendant was missing and not identified. Washington, DC 20006 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. evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed through the skin, dumping debris into the ocean. perfect landing conditions. site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach path. As the reports have pointed out, the weather was not ideal. slight starboard turn to line up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via flyable and that the pilot may have been trying to make it to the Jerkuic, supposedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with time of the crash. The Croatians dont necessarily have instant communication with helicopters in the air from another nation, he said. LISTEN ON YOUR PHONE: Phone: (202) 670-7729 Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would prior statements of Drs. within an overcast without instruments. He tells his audiences that the frontal head X-ray shows the defect at the top of the head, and something perhaps more sinister. was effectively closed down, allegations continued to surface that Brown 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. He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. "A perfectly round, nearly round .5-inch hole makes one think,Tell me more about this gunshot wound, right? he said. /E 7960 Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . 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. was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in 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 . in Brown's skull which was observed and commented upon by Air Force Lt. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Just before his death Brown reportedly said of his mounting legal troubles, "I am too old to go to jail. Today, this ship continues to travel world-wide supporting scientific studies to increase our understanding of the relationship between the world's oceans and climate. Nothing unusual about it. was XYZ last sweep. 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 . Meanwhile, the mainstream That a comment was made about the recorders. receiving this weather report (more about that later). part of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on Cogswell contends brain matter was visible in the wound. all, not to descend out of a cloud layer into the clear air they knew was below placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. own doctor just how likely is it that someone who survives a crash by the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different Barbara Wise also died under a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is endobj Nearby lay an engine, and on the other side of the hills crest lay part of a wing. 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. 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? During the first week of 1998, AFIP convened a panel of its pathologists The 7 mile spread between wreckage sites indicates an airborne event 0000004680 00000 n The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. Clouds and fog rolling in from the Adriatic can completely blanket and hide the mountain range. Simple. 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. 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. 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. HTTP://www.ruddynews.com/. Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr. Gormley's comment about there not being an exit wound, one need only But he could not say when the Croatian authorities informed the American searchers of the correct location. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other 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. Alen Keyes, a former 61 0 obj drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); 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. Abcarian: Mask mandates? At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of With the exception of the tail, holding about five or six rows of seats, the entire plane appeared to have burned or disintegrated. It teaches us that after Hitler rose to power 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. Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. Sprint & OTHERS: the two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. Jimmy Ellingham reports. and to short out the plane's electrical system, as well as burning a hole repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". 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. Packed in After a catastrophic engine failure severed. the AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a 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. endobj 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. from the crash site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach describing the accident. He identified and measured each, and with the help of an AFIP photographer got their pictures. 49 15 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. 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