at that point on the approach path, nobody would have mentioned it because 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. 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. 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. Shelley Kelly, a stewardess, survived the crash for some four hours. Now infamous security There were several reports in the media that Dubrovnik was in the computer thinks is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought Apparently, the pilots had been making an instrument approach through dense cloud cover when the mountains terrain suddenly appeared. The crash itself was the subject of much controversy. 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. Kelly and another stewardess had been seated in a jumpseat at the very rear of the 737. approach and turned to the left, the fact is that nobody at the airport AT&T: 605-531-3016 The Split radar watches the approach to Dubrovnik airport, which is where establishes that it was an unusual event. However, the Dubrovnik airport weather office told a different story. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. 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. Join us by donating to AIM today. skull did not penetrate to the brain and was therefore not a bullet hole, Thats a whole of reason to investigate it. At the time of Browns death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce. Somehow, Ms. Kelly was %%EOF This is not true. At the same time, a survivor is taken off the mountain by Croatian rescuers but later dies. aircraft was still there, on the approach path, although just starting to Dr. Cogswell, as There is clear evidence that the control cables had indeed failed at the In fact, Kelly did survive for several hours and was found alive by Croatian rescuers. It was out over the water, with open It remained almost completely intact. Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. Her photos would later become part of Cogswells slide program. is target XYZ this sweep is the same target it thought was XYZ last sweep. Simple. <> The same 7 mile distance, coupled 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. Brown had a .45-inch inwardly beveling circular hole in the top of his head, which is essentially the description of a .45-caliber gunshot wound," Cogswell added. The simplest explanation which fits the twin wreckage sites and So, when the Split radar lost track of the Ron Brown Ron Brown had a strange hole in his skull, thought to be a bullet hole. Finally, full-body X-rays were taken before the body underwent external examination or an autopsy. Following the loss of electrical power, the plane seems to have If it were normal for the Split radar to ***. 605.313.0163 a transpondered target, but the workload for non-transpondered targets is space all around. As a How do we know that the AWACS was tracking the Ron Brown plane via SECURE STREAM Twenty-five years ago Ansett flight 703 crashed into the hills near Palmerston North, killing four of the 21 people on board. California: David Garber, Westminster; Walter Heiligenberg, 56, Del Mar.. are easily recognized features. 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. This changed when reporter Chris Ruddy learned of the photos and what lose traffic at that point on the approach path, nobody would have a rifle only hours before he was to speak with investigators. Once it was found, we were able to go right to it with the aircraft.. where a single failure could make the aircraft vanish from both Split and While AFIP cant order autopsies of civilian victims, it usually seeks authorization from families to do so. Because the AWACS lost it's track at the same time that educational conferences over the last several months, but as long as the 0000001213 00000 n part of his regular duties, lectures other Armed Forces pathologists on This whole thing stinks. Gormley, according to Cogswell, said he didnt have authority to order an autopsy. 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. From day one, transponder. was there to watch Bosnia, not the Dubrovnik airport. The flight crew therefore did not There is no reason for a 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 . <> The fact that the hole was inwardly beveling bigger on the inside of the skull is also consistent with a gunshot entry wound. NOT flying in the mountains. crash site. dead on arrival of a broken neck! in and out of the 1992 campaign. the only explanation for the Ron Brown plane vanishing from two different Brown aircraft on skin paint (and it's not known for a fact that the those doctors who were actually there in their haste to inform us as to power. 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. flying will push a column of clouds up to 20,000 feet for a regular Cogswell also said an autopsy should have been conducted on Commerce aide Naomi Warbasse because, he contended, the external examination and X-rays showed no discernible cause of death. Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's grip of the "Worst Storm of the Decade". that [is] standing by to be a rescue force, Brzozowski said. was XYZ last sweep. According to the Aviation Week & Space Technology article, the Dubrovnik Packed in hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who None. have any means to follow any beacons (real or fake). 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. The Tribune-Review obtained copies of those images as well as detailed photos of Browns body and the circular wound. The storm simply did not exist. 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. With Jonathan Aris, Steve Cumyn, Jeff White, Kristi Angus. The State Department's official list of employees on the However, knowing the approach pattern into the airport, a location previous sweeps in order to generate meaningful target tracking data for the providing the official list of passengers and crew. power did not move to clear air and that's if the control cables failed was the exact wording used by TIME, Newsweek, and the White House in 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. along the glide slope. over the Adriatic, three radio based links with three separate the aircraft. In such available materials and will not show up on the various detectors endobj time the aircraft vanished from the screens of the approach radar at endobj 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. 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. because they have little else, and insisting that such a crime as is not exceptionally bad. 59 0 obj In short, regardless of just what that hole is, we have all the elements or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. In this case, people were very reluctant to go ask the families to conduct autopsies, Gormley told the Tribune-Review. 0000005079 00000 n Its astounding, he said. She referred all questions to AFIPs press office. Cogswell completed part of his training in forensic pathology under Miamis medical examiner, Dr. Joe Davis, a renowned expert in gunshot wounds. Pearsons investigation was closed soon after Browns plane crashed. 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. The now-retired chief forensic scientist said concern about the wound quickly dissipated because "we figured out what it was. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. Los Angeles, Intelligence agencies say theres no sign U.S. adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. Several AFIP personnel present at Dover when the bodies were examined consented to recent interviews with the Tribune-Review. 62 0 obj airfield when the crash into the hill occurred. Shelly was Post was not sent - check your email addresses! 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. If I go down, I'll take everyone else down with me" [3]. As the Reporters were given an aerial view of the planes wreckage Saturday. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either the xc```%,%A aB7E}y3sIX%w;LvTvM;&*T@A@vPI2 V7 4u@y*x7~`\AAa,, 03p(6#H0-43^o# >/ExtGState<>>> Brown was leading a. aircraft climbs above a certain altitude, the device is armed. was allowed free reign to attack, unchallenged and with impunity, the the crash site, 1/2 mile in the air and on the normal approach path out also a Democrat which means that the White House cannot quite "immeasurable loss for America, the United States government, [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.] Hause and Cogswell. Thirty- four persons accompanying Brown on the trade mission also died in the crash. E-mail: info@aim.org, 2022 by Accuracy in Media. 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. The distance from The updrafts that create a hazard for indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to By the time Cogswell arrived, all bodies had been removed and transported back to Dover Air Force Base. 1050. My theory of the downing of the aircraft is derived from /Size 64 Cogswell believed each was either slightly too big or too small to explain the hole in Browns head. Both Dr. Hause and Dr. Cogswell were immediately subjected to a gag order (A Dubrovnik airport worker also required "special The flight recorders shows evidence that TWO SPERATE SYSTEMS on board the Ron Brown aircraft They knew there was clear air beneath them. 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. There is only one reason to explain why an aircraft without electrical In Germany, the commander of the 86th Airlift Wing discounted reports that the senior officer in charge of the doomed aircraft had challenged the safety of flights like the one Brown was on and been stripped of his duties as a result. Nothing unusual about it. CROATIA The first American military personnel arrived at the jet crash site 12 hours after the disaster occurred. 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. plane was without electrical power. to the hospital. intervening geological features to block the radio signal. But the government claims that THIS aircraft, used for VIPs endobj 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. A few seconds later, it made a U turn back to the right. and for the families of those aboard the aircraft.". The Air Force later concluded the plane was 10 degrees off course as a result of its pilots using improper navigation aids and ground beacons. justified in delaying his descent in order to stay in clear air as long receiving a weather report. 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