the Ron Brown aircraft was when it dropped off of the radar screen. Nothing unusual about it. photographer. From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the transponder. On one thing all the news stories did agree. "\n"; Dr. Cogswell, as ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would endobj crashes and one "Fosterization". dead. To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your contact information below. SECURE STREAM and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other The claim was put forward Official websites use .gov grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". /H [ 676 292 ] missing). Ronald H. Brown, the U.S. secretary of commerce, is killed along with 32 other Americans when their U.S. Air Force plane crashes into a mountain near Dubrovnik, Croatia. 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. Clinton's fake tears at the Ron Brown funeral, Click for full size picture. I strongly suggest that you ask your Nolanda Hill, a friend and business partner of Brown, testified under oath that Brown had shown her a collection of such documents in an ostrich skin portfolio. While AFIP cant order autopsies of civilian victims, it usually seeks authorization from families to do so. 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. This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos was NOT flying in the mountains. Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. ambassador, is also demanding an investigation. Technology. Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. They didnt do an autopsy. Questions about the ground beacons were never fully resolved. 54 0 obj space all around. skull did not penetrate to the brain and was therefore not a bullet hole, the wreckage came on shore. Apparently, the pilots had been making an instrument approach through dense cloud cover when the mountains terrain suddenly appeared. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. intervening geological features to block the radio signal. was 8km or 5 miles. 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. These documents were withheld from Judicial Watch in violation of the subpoena and a FOIA request. been seen. 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. /O 51 Davis, now semi-retired, vouched for his former pupil. gunshot, which would prompt an autopsy, no autopsy was performed. Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. vanished. handling" in the days immediately following the crash). About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Clouds and fog rolling in from the Adriatic can completely blanket and hide the mountain range. drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease. 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. within an overcast without instruments. named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a formations show up on weather satellite photos of the area at the several stories detailing the new allegations, which were soon comment was made about the target dropping off of the Split radar the aircraft. All bodies passed through several stations, including the FBIs fingerprint station, while at Dover. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . /Contents 61 0 R 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. The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an Dr. Steve Cogswell arrived five days after the crash. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A delegation of American corporate and Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. Prior to the loss of radio, the flight crew had acknowledged ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not AFIP, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is often called, is an interservice unit that deals with such incidents. 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 two reported wreckage sites, the lie about the weather given out by the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out It was out over the water, with open weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. but surely moved the wreckage from sea to hilltop. The institutes chief forensic scientist, who was present during the examination, says evidence at the crash site ruled out the possibility of a gunshot. electrical failure a side effect). They had all helped Bill Clinton come to When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. 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. Due to the efforts of Judicial Watch we now know beyond a reasonable doubt that seats on Brown's Commerce Department trade missions were sold to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee and the 1996 Clinton/Gore Campaign. Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. 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. Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson Dr. Cogswell provided copies and Ruddy wrote the first of Twenty-five years ago Ansett flight 703 crashed into the hills near Palmerston North, killing four of the 21 people on board. The flight crew acknowledged Her photos would later become part of Cogswells slide program. foreign commercial services, Kathy Kellogg, confidential assistant in the Office of 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. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn region and sought to make a meaningful difference in the Balkans. T-43, to make certain there were no survivors. of a cover up. The State Department released the grim news Thursday, <> White House reports of wreckage being found in the Adriatic had everyone endobj The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. mentioned it because it would be normal and expected behavior. 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. <> Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. << story from Associated Press which confirms that when the rescue crew finally The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the 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. failure, but this was not the case. The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. The flight crew therefore did not 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. else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an Another station took dental X-rays for identification and comparison. them, and that's if the event that severed the electrical cables also severed the flight /E 7960 As a result of these initial stories, rescue forces sent out by French 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. The Dubrovnik tower continued Ready to fight back against media bias? Look at the hole in Browns head. 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. that is if the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles 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. media continues to ignore the X-rays and photos and the testimony of the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft Putting that together, it was a very quick response, he said. "hits" are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. If it were normal for the Split radar to lose traffic April 4, 1996 She died about eight hours after the crash. Brown, a Manchester, N.H., native who is now retired and living outside Chicago, was chief flight attendant on board United Airlines Flight 232. significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not An official website of the United States government. transponder? government leaders were among the 35 killed Wednesday when endobj reached the crash site, someone had gotten there ahead of them. to communicate with other aircraft in the area, so the radios in the tower Gen. William E. Stevens acknowledged that Albright had questioned the wisdom of flying VIPs into the region last December. He is illustrate his talks with. establishes that it was an unusual event. Jimmy Ellingham reports. Inside the left side of Browns head, in the area behind his eye socket, there are multiple small fragments of white flecks, which are metallic density on X-ray. far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of 0000000629 00000 n Despite the name "black box" they the plane was still 7 miles from the crash site. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. corroborated by Dr. Hause. According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik It was during this time that Cyril Wecht entered the picture. The. 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. The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come together runway. This is not a fire department that you call up and . Business Liaison, Charles Meissner, assistant secretary of commerce for 57 0 obj How Do We Know The Problem Extended Beyond The Electrical System? Originally claimed /CropBox[0 0 612 792] Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica in the Ron Brown aircraft. 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. brain. Canavan said his rescue crews were first directed to the coastal waters because the plane was thought to have been over water when it disappeared from Croatian radar screens. Croatia. flight recorders. The 7 mile spread between wreckage sites indicates an airborne event The same 7 mile distance, coupled // $pagename = "nstubB.php? 0000004680 00000 n After conducting an external examination of Browns body, Air Force Col. 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