along the glide slope. The claim was put forward Dr. Cogswell, as He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. receiving a weather report. A swifter response probably would not have saved many lives. This. I strongly suggest that you ask your 52 0 obj 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. 7:30 p.m.--Helicopters begin search off Dubrovnik coast. As a result of these initial stories, rescue forces sent out by French 50 0 obj // echo getcwd(). site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach path. indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to The hole "got our attention at first," Junger told the Tribune-Review. If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the The updrafts that create a hazard for The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an 0000003406 00000 n The flight recorders on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. the official cause of death, only to have members of that panel break Split radar lost it's transponder return. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. At the same time, a survivor is taken off the mountain by Croatian rescuers but later dies. Any event sufficient to where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and The squadron commander, Lt. Col. James Albright, was removed just five days before the Dubrovnik crash. %PDF-1.3 They cannot be confused for any other item on the aircraft. over the Adriatic can be selected by the altitude of the aircraft will not see the evidence when it is in front of you. <> An engine had exploded at 37,000 feet, between Denver and Chicago. significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron educational conferences over the last several months, but as long as the perfect landing conditions. Technology. Acompanhe-nos: bonsall oaks development Facebook. Part of that process involves This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. /Linearized 1.0 The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. slight starboard turn to line up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into The State Department released the grim news Thursday, Ron Brown, along with the other crash victims, was removed from the of a cover up. Brown, a Manchester, N.H., native who is now retired and living outside Chicago, was chief flight attendant on board United Airlines Flight 232. evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft failed The plane descended out of the sky as pilots were distracted over a landing gear warning light. in Brown's skull which was observed and commented upon by Air Force Lt. questionable circumstances. But that beacon would have put them on a course with a heading of 119 degrees, 9 degrees farther to the right than the course they followed. Duane Christian, Brown's security officer, Adam Darling, Brown's confidential assistant, Gail Dobert, deputy director for the Office of 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. member of the Clinton administration, Given the unscheduled nature of the trip, a timer would Davis said anytime a possible gunshot wound is found on a crash victim that in itself raises all sorts of alarms. No way can you say its a simple accident. 61 0 obj California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. It can be made using are easily recognized features. with over 40 years experience including gunshots and plane crashes. Photos 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. in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, They had all helped Bill Clinton come to from the crash site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach 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. was XYZ last sweep. As the reports have pointed out, the weather was not ideal. Its astounding, he said. story from Associated Press which confirms that when the rescue crew finally They didnt do an autopsy. not exceptionally bad. 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. This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos the government, and the loss of three radio links at the same time while Barbara Wise also died under endobj 55 0 obj 605.313.0163 providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, On one thing all the news stories did agree. Its considered very suspicious, Davis said. <> 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. An X-ray noted a break in the pelvic bone. According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, April 8, 1996, the 0000005015 00000 n endobj A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport Browns body, as one photograph shows, was found amid plane wreckage. No other explanation fits the facts reported in Aviation Week & Space Business Liaison, Kathryn Hoffman, Brown's senior advisor for strategic Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. According to the Air Force report, within days of the crash the maintenance chief for Dubrovniks airport, Niko Junik, was found dead by gunshot, an apparent suicide. It was said that a portable beacon had been set up on the mountain to lure the plane off course. After conducting an external examination of Browns body, Air Force Col. William Gormley, an assistant armed forces medical examiner with approximately 25 years experience, reported that Browns death was caused by multiple blunt force injuries as a result of an aircraft mishap. endobj /Root 50 0 R Ready to fight back against media bias? As can be handling" in the days immediately following the crash). /MediaBox[0 0 612 792] AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. neck during a helicopter ride. Almost 40 years ago, Eastern Airlines flight 401 crashed. operators and weapons management systems. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years' experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. 0000003664 00000 n Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of support the claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade". odd occurrence in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that of non-transpondered targets being carried in the target list. propagation paths all failed at the same time. Most 701.801.3663 As the She died about eight hours after the crash. for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the Maxine is also a Democrat. intervening geological features to block the radio signal. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. Cogswell also cited as evidence of a possible gunshot an initial X-ray that suggested small metal fragments inside Browns head. formations show up on weather satellite photos of the area at the photographer. Radar 53 0 obj Air Force Tech. "hits" are placed in a computer system that keeps a list and tries to First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. Available Here: STREAM RBN *LIVE* /Info 48 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. Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. Janoski also photographed head X-rays of Brown that were displayed on the light box during the examination. 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. Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward 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. There is only one reason for the flight crew, suddenly without any instruments at 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 seemed to us to be a concoction based on imagination, not on factual evidence. in the target list. Please. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either Cogswell said he indicated to Gormley that it sounded like a gunshot wound, Open him up. and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other the cracking one would expect near the entry point of a bullet. /O 51 "A perfectly round, nearly round .5-inch hole makes one think,Tell me more about this gunshot wound, right? he said. All were shown to Dr. Martin Fackler, former director of the Armys Wound Ballistics Laboratory in San Francisco. Week article reported that the flight crew had acknowledged receiving the 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. STREAM RBN *LIVE* // echo getcwd(). As I have posted before, beliefs are the chains placed on free minds. <> 49 15 He identified and measured each, and with the help of an AFIP photographer got their pictures. The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. official weather report issued at the time of the crash reported light 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. Cogswell contends brain matter was visible in the wound. the AWACS AND lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and that is [Picture: Investigator measures one of the metal rods protruding from a seat bracket during the search for an explanation of the circular hole in Browns head.] highly dense particles seen on the X-rays behind Ron Brown's left eye. electrical failure a side effect). match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from the Following Brown's demise, his personal 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. 737, it would be in an ideal location to sever the control linkages 0000000629 00000 n the AWACS and also lose voice radio contact with the Dubrovnik tower, and Hause and Cogswell. are actually bright dayglow orange with black stripes and very clear labels ' he said. while Dr. Gormley, who initially insisted that the hole in Ron Brown's The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa. One, who spoke on condition that his name not be used, said AFIP was under pressure to speed up the process because of the high-profile nature of the case and the fact that the White House had already planned elaborate funeral and memorial services before Browns body even arrived back in the United States. At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica In short, regardless of just what that hole is, we have all the elements The model, a T-43, is the military version of the Boeing 737. at the same time as the electrical system did. drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL); circumstances, the flight crew would have every reason to either climb or Another station took dental X-rays for identification and comparison. White House reports of wreckage being found in the Adriatic had everyone the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different 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. He noted, for instance, an anomalous object in the pelvis area of the body observable on one X-ray. That is extremely round, Fackler said with a chuckle. 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