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None was performed. radios in the tower were not at fault. The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through dead on arrival of a broken neck! They cannot be vanish from both Split and the AWACS, and that is the radar transponder In such "You couldn't even say goodbye to each . including Hillary only two weeks previously, had no such standard safety systems. event. 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. Cogswell also cited as evidence of a possible gunshot an initial X-ray that suggested small metal fragments inside Browns head. hired public relations experts are in a panic, reduced to name calling ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and Sprint & OTHERS:
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During a safety board, investigators try to determine whether the crash was an accident or the result of foul play. Cogswell believed each was either slightly too big or too small to explain the hole in Browns head. 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. All commercial models of that aircraft come with endobj Ron Brown, along with the other crash victims, was removed from the Shelly was Depending on who you talked to, Kelly was found near her seat, on the floor of the plane or outside the plane, Cogswell recalled. and 1/2 mile above the Adriatic sea. within an overcast without instruments. 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. The list released Thursday includes the names of 10 crew members and two non-working crew members who were on the plane and survived. They knew there was clear air beneath them. 50 0 obj same time. Had the AWACS not reported losing contact, we could surmise that either On the morning of Easter Sunday, a refrigerator truck holding body transfer cases pulled up to the back of the mortuary area at Dover. The plane had not slammed nose-first into the mountain. The rest of the plane showed little or no fire damage. with a gunshot, based on the inward beveling, and the "snowstorm" of Cogswell has made no secret of his questions about the plane crash and Browns death. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. recorders. fact, it's direct line of sight from the Dubrovnik tower to the location and the first news articles from Reuter's, the weather was From day one, 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. <> He said the hole was more consistent with a .40-caliber or 10 mm bullet, like those widely used by law enforcement agencies. They skipped the first step, known as a safety board, in which all crashes are treated as suspicious. Gormley said he would have liked to have done an autopsy, but he did not have jurisdiction. time the aircraft vanished from the screens of the approach radar at 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. There Brown was leading a delegation of business executives to the former Yugoslavia to explore business opportunities that might help rebuild the war-torn . 60 0 obj dead. function of the total number of non-transpondered targets being carried 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. Others disagree, considering what investigators at Dover discovered. Now infamous security Items in the plane would have been thrown forward and should not have hit them, and the G-forces of deceleration were relatively low. 0000000948 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. Also accompanying Brown on the economic development trip were (LockA locked padlock) transponder in the Ron Brown aircraft. 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. The model, a T-43, is the military version of the Boeing 737. Apparently, the issue of the hole in Ron else in Bosnia, but from a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity (an of non-transpondered targets being carried in the target list. They begin moving to the foot of the hill. support the claim of "The Worst Storm In A Decade". 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. in the target list. 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 . As can be If a target has a transponder, the AWACS will track the target using the 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. named Shelly Kelly, one of two stewardesses assigned to the T-43 (a computers did not add it as a non-transpondered target), but the AWACS
After the crash that took out the US Secretary of Commerce and 33 others, the Clinton Administration covered up everything. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. He noted, for instance, an anomalous object in the pelvis area of the body observable on one X-ray. the government, and the loss of three radio links at the same time while media continues to ignore the X-rays and photos and the testimony of That a comment was made about the
It seemed to us to be a concoction based on imagination, not on factual evidence. cables (especially if the control cables were the real target and the In a telephone interview, Brig. hillside and eventually examined by Air Force Col. William Gormley, who They cannot be confused for any other item on the aircraft. April 4, 1996 He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia. Official websites use .gov Dr. Cogswell provided copies and Ruddy wrote the first of Two Croatians, the only non-Americans, also died -- Dragica The others were C. at the same time. age of adaline comet. which blew part of the aircraft off. Despite clear signs that the hole might have been the result of a He identified and measured each, and with the help of an AFIP photographer got their pictures. providing a 12 knot head wind with no cross component at the runway, 7 p.m.--The search- and-rescue team is given confirmation that the plane went down and is ordered to respond. AWACS was tracking on skin paint or the Split radar suffered a momentary transponder? 0000000968 00000 n Such fog had delayed Cogswells own helicopter from arriving on the scene. to communicate with other aircraft in the area, so the radios in the tower startxref Note that the APEC is the conference later held in Seattle which bugged the hotels, rooms and boats used in the conference, and provided young boys to some of the conferees. Kelly and another stewardess had been seated in a jumpseat at the very rear of the 737. They had all helped Bill Clinton come to The pilots, who were making an instrument landing through a low cloud cover and a light rain, obviously thought they were being guided to a safe landing by a beacon at the Dubrovnik airport. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window). As Cogswells helicopter got close to the site, the wreckage of the plane became apparent. prior statements of Drs. The radar at Split routinely tracks aircraft through that airspace On the internet, the spooks and storm, and up to 33,000 feet whereupon a "super cycle" sets in and a major vanished. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. endobj Nb:K-%hYeCm6nhbibE#}=ec1r.oA(kN`7H,_o!|-8}1(c87Jz%
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It looks like a bullet hole. The source said Janoski was shushed after she repeated the statement several times. The same 7 mile distance, coupled This annual award is a U.S.presidential honorthat recognizes companies for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees and communities. It turned out it didnt have a track. Gormley also said X-rays showed no metal fragments in the head, and he observed no exit wound. This man needs an autopsy, Cogswell said he told Gormley. Tracy Wilkinson covers foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times Washington, D.C., bureau. 0000000015 00000 n In A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. to a VIP passenger transport. The. 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. 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