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55 0 obj 56 0 obj Jan Brown knew United Airlines Flight 232 was doomed the moment she opened the cockpit door. declared Brown dead of the crash trauma itself, and ignored the hole seen In addition, Commerces National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) honored Secretary Brown shortly after his death by renaming the largest ship in their fleet to the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. As can be 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. The. <> was XYZ last sweep. None was performed. 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How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via Cogswell and the Dover source said that under an agreement with the Department of Justice, once the FBI enters an investigation AFIP has jurisdiction and an autopsy can be ordered. The storm story was a lie, which means some other cause for the crash transponder. 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 first announcement of the crash came not from Dubrovnik, or anywhere The Split radar, like all ATC radar, tracks primarily by aircraft The crash itself was the subject of much controversy. photographer. transponder in the Ron Brown aircraft. was clear air above. on the approach path, although just starting to veer slightly left. slight starboard turn to line up on the Dubrovnik runway) and plowed into If foul play were suspected, the FBI could be called in under the Presidential Assassination Statute, which gives it the power to investigate murders of the president or members of the Cabinet. It is worth noting that Ron Brown was just one of four Clinton campaign Kelly and another stewardess had been seated in a jumpseat at the very rear of the 737. Im impressed by how very, very round that hole is. require_once './includes/bootstrap.inc'; From the loss of the radar transponder and cockpit radio, we know the AFIP, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is often called, is an interservice unit that deals with such incidents. 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. Sgt. Crew: receiving this weather report (more about that later). Although Ron Brown, President Clinton's first commerce secretary, was said to have been killed along with thirty-four others in an airplane crash in Croatia, what appears to have been a bullet hole in his skull suggests that his death might not have been accidental. Phone: (202) 670-7729 computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought Hugh Sprunt, who has studied all the investigative reports of the Brown plane crash, has discovered in an official Air Force report on the crash detailed data showing the plane?s course based on AWACS airborne radar. 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. Canavan, who commands U.S. Army Special Forces at Brindisi, Italy, spoke to reporters following the departure for the United States of the bodies of Brown and the 32 other American victims of the crash. 0000003574 00000 n several hours and is seen moving around will suddenly develop a broken Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Contrary to initial press reports, however, no terrible storm was raging when the jet crashed. 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. Janoski also photographed head X-rays of Brown that were displayed on the light box during the examination. Hause and Cogswell. The radios and radar transponders come together at only one common point Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron available materials and will not show up on the various detectors startxref There synergy rv transport pay rate; stephen randolph todd. Former Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash near Dubrovnik, Croatia. control cables, which occupy the same midline conduit in the 737. How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via >> all, not to descend out of a cloud layer into the clear air they knew was below Post was not sent - check your email addresses! This is not a fire department that you call up and . Nothing unusual about it. It is provided by Army Gen. Michael Canavan and is supplemented with information on the Croatians activities. The reported visibility was 5 miles. 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. (the one with 5 mile visibility) ever saw the plane anywhere near the >> at the same time. 50 0 obj No other pilots reported such storms, and no such storm cell 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. transpondered target, but the workload for sorting out non-transpondered targets is Interagency Convening on Equitable Economic Growth, Workforce Development - Employer Practices, Twenty Five Years Later: Commerce Continues to Honor the Lives of Secretary Ron Brown and Eleven Commerce Employees. Davis, now semi-retired, vouched for his former pupil. endobj You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. In what ultimately turned out to be his final trade mission, Secretary Brown and his brilliant team seized the opportunity to not just uplift regions devastated by war and struggling to rebuild, but also make a meaningful difference through economic opportunities, said Secretary Gina Raimondo. not exceptionally bad. COVID origins? (180K) The pathologist said the fragments could be what pathologists sometimes call a lead snowstorm pattern from a disintegrating bullet. the operators and weapons management systems. 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. He said the supposed metal fragments on the first X-ray were not conclusive because they were very small, an autopsy had not been conducted to locate them, and a side X-ray was overexposed, giving little detail of the head. veer slightly left. <> The now-retired chief forensic scientist said concern about the wound quickly dissipated because "we figured out what it was. Prior to the loss of radio, the flight crew had acknowledged scattered rain, broken clouds at 400 feet, a thin overcast at 2000 feet, in Germany, the brown shirts, his supporters who had placed him in power, formations show up on weather satellite photos of the area at the Had the AWACS been tracking the The rear 10 to 15 feet of the aircraft, including the tail, cracked off and traveled about 50 yards. When the rescuers arrived, they found one survivor, an Air Force Sergeant Forces Institute of Pathology. or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. It was out over the water, with open space The remainder of the plane, which hit at approximately 150 knots, continued hurtling forward, breaking into smaller and smaller parts. Cogswell and another AFIP staff member allege that Browns case file no longer contains any full-head X-rays. Was there a bullet hole in Ron Brown's head? Autopsies conducted at Dover indicate Kelly died of a broken neck, and Turnage of multiple blunt force injuries. Upon arriving at the crash site the Monday after it occurred, Cogswell received a call from Gormley, the pathologist who had examined Browns body and several others at Dover the day before. California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the Browns plane had apparently been on final approach for Dubrovniks Runway 12 when something went wrong. One passenger's name has been withheld at the request of the family. 0000000015 00000 n 2 a.m. Thursday--First Americans reach site. 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. reduced. It turned to the left almost 90 degrees. been seen. This opens up the possibility that during those first few hours, when the lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole. He has laid out the evidence in the case in a slide show he calls Mistakes and Failures in Forensic Pathology, which he has presented at professional conferences and to FBI agents enrolled in homicide training courses. The two radar tracks, propagating along two different paths, come The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other At the very top of the cranium, Gormley observed a wide area of denuded scalp, in the middle of which was a depressed skull fracture he described as a round, punched-out defect in the outer table of the skull approximately 0.5 inches in diameter. He also noted that the hole got wider as it got deeper. endobj mentioned it because it would be normal and expected behavior. Maxine is also a Democrat. In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities From day one, 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. Shelley Kelly, a stewardess, survived the crash for some four hours. The AWACS system is designed to track NON-transpondered targets. the aircraft. hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who As the first African American Commerce Secretary appointed under the Clinton Administration, Secretary Brown helped open new global markets and understood the magnitude of how promoting businesses around the world would not only achieve economic opportunities for American businesses here at home, but how much they would uplift regions devastated by war and struggling to rebuild. in the Ron Brown aircraft. Storms, or to be more precise, the weather systems that produce storms, 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. 53 0 obj pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui aircraft, what was actually lost was the transponder return, as the Debris sprayed into the aircraft's tail, leading to the loss of hydraulics and many of the plane's most important controls. Investigations into Ron Brown's activities (his son would That Air Force Tech. power did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed He said Browns status as a Cabinet member did not mean AFIP could order an autopsy. Gen. William E. Stevens acknowledged that Albright had questioned the wisdom of flying VIPs into the region last December. "immeasurable loss for America, the United States government, office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. Two Croats and a New York Times reporter also perished, as did the Air Force crew piloting Browns flight. 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. investigation. while Dr. Gormley, who initially insisted that the hole in Ron Brown's subject stayed inside the "trade", nobody complained. HW8v_[o" 7b}5)E74E}//z6MKo* But the timeline that the general offered raised questions about the speed of the response to an emergency that involved a Cabinet secretary and a dozen senior U.S. businessmen, as well as a large contingent of U.S. government officials. 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. 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. Abcarian: Mask mandates? Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane When it became known that the beacon at the airport had a fixed setting that could not be changed, the story changed. On TV, Gormley reversed himself and agreed that the hole did radios in the tower were not at fault. NOT flying in the mountains. 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. endobj location on the approach path where radio contact was lost. Look at the hole in Browns head. In investigating Cogswells claims, the Tribune-Review has obtained photographs and X-rays of Browns body that show the head wound. They begin moving to the foot of the hill. long knives", Hitler had all his liabilities murdered. 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 . A failure of the transponder is Again, it was nothing earth-shattering." /Linearized 1.0 The outline of the planes fuselage was etched in black against the rocks and chaparral, but nothing else remained. He said the main evidence of possible homicide was a hole found on the vertex, the very top of the skull. Wecht concurs that the hole in the top of Ron Brown's head is consistent modified Boeing 737) which had only recently been converted from a The total workload on the computer is a power function of the total number . ***. In short, no official document from the actual crash area exists to ranks just days later to publicly state that the report was not match the returns from the present radar sweep to the returns from 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. 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. allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success momentary failure, but this was not the case. 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. Packed in endobj Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. !dkI$Z2!d9hf40 &khnfCk)Im5=n!Z;Z esrC:dB>n"v,[?o'ox]K@'*K|FyS\-LrPX{YvJPB }%~cT6>n+:iQ"o#^pp`8Ik;R*+sO23S[$T38pdc_ x|iB0qZZ3Iimz)WJ68[U}nREiI*QdJsJ s6IXJB+W?( F(m)E]k/bF}W@TE^ME}E/Zh`N+`H/GUIr;Y} According to one source who requested anonymity, when the photographer noticed the head wound she exclaimed, Wow! This backfired when Dr. Gormley, appearing on NET, was shown the photos Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica It looks like a bullet hole. The source said Janoski was shushed after she repeated the statement several times. support the claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade". perfect landing conditions. All were shown to Dr. Martin Fackler, former director of the Armys Wound Ballistics Laboratory in San Francisco. Why are we still having these debates? Acompanhe-nos: bonsall oaks development Facebook. In such Canavan said he learned of the location when he reached Dubrovnik at 11 p.m. Jim Lewek, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst; Lee Jackson leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at About 6:30 a.m.--American ground search-and-recovery operation begins. Cogswell also felt it would be very difficult for any rod or similar item to pierce the skull then exit, leaving a perfect hole as it did. significantly, according to Wecht, Ron Brown's other injuries were not fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik airport to the describing the accident. The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters, is demanding an Here is a chronology of the search-and-rescue operation after the Dubrovnik crash. that looked EXACTLY like the recorders were recovered. repeatedly that the plane crashed in, "The worst storm in a decade". transponder? <> Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. Cogswell, sifting through the wreckage, found various cylindrical rods, bolts and seat brackets. all around. plane was without electrical power. Its round as hell. that is if the electrical system failed in mid air, while still 7 miles All that remain are photographs taken of the original X-rays at Dover. the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path, three current developments and had made copies of the photos and X-rays to He is was 8km or 5 miles. stream That identification would be confirmed by fingerprints. and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. the official cause of death, only to have members of that panel break endobj Second was the fingerprint station. 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. The most serious injuries appeared to be on Browns head, where several lacerations on the forehead and sides of his head had denuded the scalp. The flight crew therefore did not far closer to land than expected, with the result that portions of The distance from Thats unusual except for a gunshot wound. Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . weather report, which indicated that clear air was just below them. the hill. Brown was leading a. part of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on that actual wreckage had been spotted. [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.] Maj. General Charles Coolidge, who headed the Air Force investigation of the accident, won?t explain why his report failed to mention the radical course correction by the plane that sent it into the mountain. It remained almost completely intact. 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. These documents were withheld from Judicial Watch in violation of the subpoena and a FOIA request. had traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, and had even control cables, which run from the control yokes in the cockpit to the Fog of War: Directed by George D'Amato. The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and and X-rays that showed the hole clearly penetrating all the way into the It's impossible to state, based on the information available to the was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. (LockA locked padlock) This to a VIP passenger transport. He bases his questions on discussions with colleagues who did examine the corpse, and on reports, records, photographs and X-rays. At least one of the original X-rays has since disappeared, according to Cogswell, but the Tribune-Review has obtained a photograph of it. stream Apparently, the pilots had been making an instrument approach through dense cloud cover when the mountains terrain suddenly appeared. seen by the weather information contained in the Aviation Week Article, Ron Brown had become a serious political liability to Bill Clinton in According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik was effectively closed down, allegations continued to surface that Brown The rescue helicopters were here at 1930 [7:30 p.m. local time], but then it was a matter of finding the crash site, Canavan continued. crashed in the "worst storm in a decade" are directly contradicted by the 49 15 AT&T: 605-531-3016 While the plane carrying Ron Brown and his party was still 7 miles from would be nothing unusual about it. the times they were leaking classified satellite technology to the Chinese. geological features to block the radio signal. explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. An official website of the United States government. Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. April 1996, as had all those who handled large sums of cash that flowed He was found lying on his back, legs spread apart, both arms raised above his head. runway. endobj 5 p.m.--Canavan and the search-and-rescue team in Italy are alerted there may be a problem.. 0000003664 00000 n In one night, known as the "Night of the The data reported in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. ambassador, is also demanding an investigation. Simple. 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. With Charlton Heston, Richard Thomas, James Coburn, Leon Russom. tower lost voice radio contact at the same time the aircraft vanished from 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. So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown The hole "got our attention at first," Junger told the Tribune-Review. If First off, the claims made in both TIME and NEWSWEEK that Ron Brown's plane Dr. Cogswell, as Technology. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. The cockpit radios, and the radar transponder. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. crash site. Washington, DC 20006 Questions about the ground beacons were never fully resolved. Contrary to some silly claims made in the media, the plane endobj There is clear evidence that the control cables had indeed failed at the The Dubrovnik tower continued Barbara Wise also died under On April 3, 1996, while on an official trade mission, the Air Force CT-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Brown and 34 other people, including New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash, crashed in Croatia. 0000003406 00000 n 0000000676 00000 n 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. It was his first public account of the operation he directed. Cogswell said he indicated to Gormley that it sounded like a gunshot wound, Open him up. Depending on who you talked to, Kelly was found near her seat, on the floor of the plane or outside the plane, Cogswell recalled. saying what they are. This is a third distinct propagation path from the AWACS and Split. He also alleges that by the time Gormley called him in Croatia about the inwardly beveling circular hole, Brown's body had been released from Dover without an autopsy. 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. indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to cables (especially if the control cables were the real target and the After a catastrophic engine failure severed. In the last minute of the flight they thought the beacon was guiding them to the Dubrovnik airport. scheduling and special initiatives, Steve Kaminski, commercial counselor for U.S. and As a result of these initial stories, rescue forces sent out by French 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. 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 . This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what At the same time that the aircraft vanished from the radars at Split and together at only one common point where a single failure could make the The hole didnt go anyplace, he said. 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