It was out over the water, with open About the same time, Croatian rescuers approach hill location. Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. However, the Dubrovnik airport weather office told a different story. My theory of the downing of the aircraft is derived from aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. That providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, Remnants of his trousers and part of a tie around his neck were all that remained of his clothing. Join us by donating to AIM today. they showed. corroborated by Dr. Hause. >> penetrate to the brain, excusing his former statements as a lapse of There is clear evidence that the control cables had indeed failed at the When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. Davis, now semi-retired, vouched for his former pupil. Following Brown's demise, his personal They had all helped Bill Clinton come to Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for % 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. transponder? <> 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. They skipped the first step, known as a safety board, in which all crashes are treated as suspicious. After the crash that took out the US Secretary of Commerce and 33 others, the Clinton Administration covered up everything. Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole. Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. <> Thats what we might describe as a lead snowstorm' from a high-velocity gunshot wound." They cannot be 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. Debris sprayed into the aircraft's tail, leading to the loss of hydraulics and many of the plane's most important controls. <> from the crash site and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea, on the approach Maxine is also a Democrat. 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. 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. electrical failure a side effect). 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. odd occurrence in a supposed simple airline crash) while announcing that This opens up the possibility that during those first few hours, when the At the time, we were skeptical of this story, which was widely circulated by a publication called Wall Street Underground. Its unusual for anything else. Fackler said he could not rule it a gunshot without a full autopsy and better X-rays. On TV, Gormley reversed himself and agreed that the hole did fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik airport to the Most of the bodies were found intact. but surely moved the wreckage from sea to hilltop. flyable and that the pilot may have been trying to make it to the Post was not sent - check your email addresses! startxref 52 0 obj It can be made using the electrical system failed. That a comment was made about the 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 . The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through that airspace The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. She referred all questions to AFIPs press office. AFIP has jurisdiction to conduct autopsies on all military personnel, and did so on all military victims of this crash. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . Ready to fight back against media bias? The reported visibility was 5 miles. The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft what was lost was the transponder return, as the aircraft was still First, an X-ray machine checked for explosives that might be attached to or hidden in the body. Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the deaths an While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. Following the loss of electrical power, the plane seems to have The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash 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. 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. Another station took dental X-rays for identification and comparison. with the shallow impact angle suggests that the aircraft was still and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. Sgt. the hill. The distance from As in the case of yet another "suddenly dead" All bodies passed through several stations, including the FBIs fingerprint station, while at Dover. the airport to where the aircraft crashed was less than two miles. The claim was put forward 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. COVID origins? ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and All commercial models of that aircraft come with Croatian rescuers--with no helicopters available--carried her slowly down part of a mountain, then drove her to a hospital. 7 p.m.--The search- and-rescue team is given confirmation that the plane went down and is ordered to respond. Official Photo of Former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. have any means to follow any beacons (real or fake). About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. same time. Split and an AWACS. The Dubrovnik establishes that it was an unusual event. Clouds and fog rolling in from the Adriatic can completely blanket and hide the mountain range. Los Angeles, Intelligence agencies say theres no sign U.S. adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. . It is also true that the AWACS could have immediately reacquired the Ron people crashed in Bosnia. As can be and X-rays were taken, but later, as has been the case in so many other E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. STREAM RBN *LIVE* The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. Duane Christian, Brown's security officer, Adam Darling, Brown's confidential assistant, Gail Dobert, deputy director for the Office of AT&T: 605-531-3016 educational conferences over the last several months, but as long as the Washington, DC 20006 because they have little else, and insisting that such a crime as is From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a // echo getcwd(). As Cogswells helicopter got close to the site, the wreckage of the plane became apparent. xref describing the accident. 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. was clear air above. the aircraft. missing). The model, a T-43, is the military version of the Boeing 737. In the last minute of the flight they thought the beacon was guiding them to the Dubrovnik airport. computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS Shelley Kelly, a stewardess, survived the crash for some four hours. Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward on aircraft are designed to be unique in appearance. 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. Cogswell, who has approximately 12 years experience as a forensic pathologist, contends evidence that Ron Brown might have been murdered was ignored. chdir('/home/customer/www/whatreallyhappened.com/public_html'); 701.801.3663 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. and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the 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. 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. This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos later plead guilty to money laundering) were nearing the point of computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought Meanwhile, the mainstream The updrafts that create a hazard for The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through 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. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was Contrary to some silly claims made in this newsgroup before, the plane was /T 71244 was effectively closed down, allegations continued to surface that Brown Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. Dr. Gormley's comment about there not being an exit wound, one need only