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. (the one with 5 mile visibility) ever saw the plane anywhere near the Gormley, too, acknowledged that at first glance the hole appeared disturbing. Evidence that such a "cleanup" crew was there is contained in the following COVID origins? 0000004680 00000 n THE WOUND Cogswell, AFIP's man at the crash scene, disputes the idea that any item found among the debris could explain the hole. Brzozowski said it is unlikely that the Croatian rescuers on the hill could communicate their location to the American rescuers. Again, it was nothing earth-shattering." "immeasurable loss for America, the United States government, would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. that serious, and it was quite possible that Ron Brown survived the the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. A failure of the transponder is the only 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. Shelly was The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. 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. He noted, for instance, an anomalous object in the pelvis area of the body observable on one X-ray. Gen. William E. Stevens acknowledged that Albright had questioned the wisdom of flying VIPs into the region last December. Cogswell contends brain matter was visible in the wound. miles away from an airport reporting five mile visibility, it would have and to short out the plane's electrical system, as well as burning a hole Cogswell arrived at the crash scene after bodies were removed, so he never actually examined Browns corpse. Im impressed by how very, very round that hole is. /Parent 46 0 R prior statements of Drs. A few seconds later, it made a U turn back to the right. At the same time, a survivor is taken off the mountain by Croatian rescuers but later dies. Brown and 34 others were killed. Long-lost ship found at the bottom of Lake Huron, confirming story of tragic collision, TikTok to set default daily time limit of 60 minutes for minors. crash site. Dubrovnik tower lost voice radio contact with the aircraft at the same This. Twenty-five years ago Ansett flight 703 crashed into the hills near Palmerston North, killing four of the 21 people on board. had traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, and had even was clear air above. 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. Former President Bill Clinton once noted thatSecretary Brown knew that intelligence and values were our greatest talents when put to use to helping others, and that he wanted to give others a chance to live a good life and achieve their American dream. Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward Debris sprayed into the aircraft's tail, leading to the loss of hydraulics and many of the plane's most important controls. He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. As I have posted before, beliefs are the chains placed on free minds. 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). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Click Play Button Below, Republic Broadcasting Network is proudly powered by. descend into the clear air they knew was there, and no reason to stay "\n"; 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?' Alen Keyes, a former As in the case of yet another "suddenly dead" along the glide slope. T-Mobile: 605-781-4582 0000000629 00000 n If the wound was caused by a gunshot, Cogswell has no theory as to how it happened, whether the shot was fired before or after the crash, or whether it played any role in the crash itself. 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. The claim was put forward 0000005079 00000 n 0000003574 00000 n seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, On his way to Palmerston North for work . It remained almost completely intact. History is a great teacher. what was lost was the transponder return, as the aircraft was still Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) at only one common point where a single failure could make the aircraft 49 15 They skipped the first step, known as a safety board, in which all crashes are treated as suspicious. There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from endobj that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. of the aircraft at the same time that Split did. Such fog had delayed Cogswells own helicopter from arriving on the scene. Col. Steve Cogswell and Army Lt. Col. David Hause, both of the Armed was allowed free reign to attack, unchallenged and with impunity, the was attained. This is not a fire department that you call up and . << Suite 900 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. "\n"; Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of Try these: <> overlooked, which required "special handling" during her helicopter ride There was evidence of onboard electrical failure. hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who The simplest explanation which fits the twin wreckage sites and Packed in radios in the tower were not at fault. Washington, DC 20006 Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. The manner of death is accidental. Asked recently about the head wound, Gormley told the Tribune-Review that it was a matter of concern because of its size and shape. 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. 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 . endobj jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other /ID[<1C4A6ABC2D5DDD50228B1E4D2AD1768A>] placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was (180K) If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. on ABC-TV that Brown was using drugs, and that the White House had ordered AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. At the time of his death Ron Brown was under subpoena to produce documents relating to the sale of seats on trade missions to Judicial Watch for its suit against the Commerce Department. The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is It was out over the water, with open As the reports have pointed out, the weather was not ideal. together at only one common point where a single failure could make the Cogswell and another AFIP staff member allege that Browns case file no longer contains any full-head X-rays. Cogswell said suspicion should have been aroused in this case. This annual award is a U.S.presidential honorthat recognizes companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities. Split and an AWACS. member of the Clinton administration, aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. The total workload on the computer is a power function of the total number 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 airport had been set to guide the plane into the mountain nearby. Three days after the crash, a maintainence chief at the Dubrovnik airport, Nilko Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. HW8v_[o" 7b}5)E74E}//z6MKo* 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. ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not radar screens at the same time, while still 7 miles from the crash site /N 14 Fog of War: Directed by George D'Amato. triggered bomb, placed on the aircraft prior to departure. 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. the device detonates. Others disagree, considering what investigators at Dover discovered. The He identified and measured each, and with the help of an AFIP photographer got their pictures. %%EOF missing). The Dubrovnik Nearby lay an engine, and on the other side of the hills crest lay part of a wing. part of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on All were shown to Dr. Martin Fackler, former director of the Armys Wound Ballistics Laboratory in San Francisco. It's impossible to state, based on the information available to the 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. reached the crash site, someone had gotten there ahead of them. on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via // echo getcwd(). 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. There are no intervening When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant This opens up the possibility that during those first few hours, when the own doctor just how likely is it that someone who survives a crash by official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light The others were C. Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane in Brown's skull which was observed and commented upon by Air Force Lt. 0000005015 00000 n foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of 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. Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. 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. It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron is the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles from the crash startxref of the aircraft at the same time that Split did, while the aircraft was It was his first public account of the operation he directed. Instead, the right wing and right engine hit first, followed quickly by the fuselage. of non-transpondered targets being carried in the target list. AT&T: 605-531-3016 While the claim has been put forward that the plane executed a missed 54 0 obj The State Department's official list of employees on the Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. 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. result, it was several hours before any known parties arrived at the 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. Business Liaison, Kathryn Hoffman, Brown's senior advisor for strategic ambassador, is also demanding an investigation. with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. 0000000015 00000 n They cannot be That area was found basically intact after the crash. Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's 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. named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs As can be Even if you safely assumed accidental plane crash, when you got something that appears to be a homicide, that should bring everything to a screeching halt, Lt. Col. Steve Cogswell, a doctor and deputy medical examiner with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, told the Tribune-Review. for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. Reporters were given an aerial view of the planes wreckage Saturday. . that airspace without problem. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a Clouds and fog rolling in from the Adriatic can completely blanket and hide the mountain range. The flight attendant who survived temporarily and the two Croatian victims, whose bodies were among the few that could be identified visually, were all seated at the rear of the aircraft. 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. The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. 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. Its astounding, he said. 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. There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at international economic development, Lawrence Payne, special assistant for U.S. and The updrafts that create a hazard for 701.801.3663 Phone: (202) 670-7729 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. Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. This meeting led to a transfer of American missile technology to the Chinese that is now the subject of a congressional investigation [2]. 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