We drove in to the airport together. By the time this whole exchange had been completed and we in fact were on approach and we landed. [5] Chief among the findings was a "failure of command, aircrew error and an improperly designed instrument approach procedure". Those radio signals from the beacon on Kolocep island were the pilots' strongest link to the world below the clouds. In their last communication, they calmly asked for permission to land. Anatomy of a Disaster Difficult Approach, And a Slow Drift. Learn how to update your browser. General McCarthy called that characterization "blatantly unfair." Now the pilots' main task was to keep the plane on track, a course of 119 degrees. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Government or of ADST. Just three minutes after last contact with the control tower, St. John's Peak rose up right in front of them, nearly two miles inland from the runway. var sc_partition=60; It turned out to be [Under Secretary for Political Affairs] Peter Tarnoff and I told him that we’d lost radio contact and it had disappeared from the radar screen. But Dubrovnik lost its instrument landing system in 1991, when advancing Serb forces overran the airport and stole it. When the message was relayed to him, he headed toward St. John's Peak. Perhaps too busy to see that they had been drifting dangerously off course. Then, in September 1994, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development offered a $22 million loan to upgrade all of Croatia's airports. U.S. Army - U.S. Army Air Corps Service: 1904 - 05/10/1911 Private Samuel S. Kelly *KIA* Born 1832 - 08/14/1863 Died C.S. You’ve got to be a little more demanding.” I was joking, but not entirely joking. The 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash killed all 35 people aboard the plane, including US Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown, with the exception of Air Force Technical Sergeant Shelly Kelly, who died later en route to hospital.At least one associate of the Clinton, Johnny Chung, did not understand this to be a simple accident, and became afraid for his life. Its receiver had to be manually -- and quickly -- retuned, with the co-pilot twirling a metallic knob as he strained to hear the Morse code signals through the static. Flying a beacon approach to a familiar airfield gives a pilot "a home-court advantage," General McCarthy said; a strange airport is "an away game." There’s nothing that we can do.”. In any event, at 3:25 Mateša took me aside and said, “Ron Brown’s plane — we’ve lost radio contact with Ron Brown’s plane and it’s disappeared from the radar.” I had this total reaction of disbelief. Okay, first I should say as we were coming in through this bad weather, there was the kind of gallows humor that sometimes exists among passengers on a plane when it is very turbulent and as usual the Croatian ambassador to the United States was making jokes and I was teasing him. So, I looked at him and I said, “Zlatko, is this serious?” I knew it was. It's hard to perform autopsies on ashes…..". Clinton had a…fairly straightforward exchange with Tuđman. The pilots were unable to see through the clouds. Capt. Oh, no. His remark was picked up widely by the media and, without any substantiation, transformed into fact. Air Force Technical Sergeant Shelly Kelly survived the initial impact, but died en route to hospital. Croatian soldiers had already scaled the peak on their own and were searching for survivors. A startled United Nations military officer in the hills outside the city heard the jet roar overhead and told a colleague, "That guy's way off course.". The captains had never seen the Dubrovnik airport, and the lowering rain clouds made it impossible for them to see it now. Janoski, in her interview with Phelan, mentioned that there were several false stories about Kelly. Notably there was no black box. to remember Transcript of US Department of Defense News briefing held on 7 June 2006 "Results of the Accident Investigation Report of the CT-43 Accident". The crosswind was almost nothing.". A sudden change in the wind might have blown them off course, although the pilots are trained to overcome that. We stayed on the plane awhile because we didn’t want to get wet and we were waiting for the Ron Brown plane to land. Miljenko Radic, an experienced pilot and member of the Croatian investigating team, believes they did not. She dies enroute. Col. Robert Rhodes, the 76th's Squadron's commander from 1991 to 1993, said he would never send a crew to a place they had never been unless they were highly experienced and had done "intense, intense" analysis of the approach and the airfield. Sgt. FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson. ;In Crash That Killed Brown, Signs of Safety Shortcomings. About 15 minutes earlier, Ron Brown's CT-43A, the military version of a Boeing 737, had left Tuzla in Bosnia, 130 miles to the northeast. Mario Sarinic, who landed a Croatian Government Sabreliner with officials on board at Dubrovnik at 1:19 P.M. that day, 99 minutes before the crash. ", 9/12/96 Dornan's comments re Shelly Kelly--Congressional Record "Here is a document, a political document. They got the bearing and they simply entered it wrong by 10 degrees and that took them into the mountain rather than into the airport. It took 45 minutes for this information to reach American soldiers who had landed at Dubrovnik's airport, according to the military's official chronology. At least one associate of the Clinton, Johnny Chung, did not understand this to be a simple accident, and became afraid for his life. "Basically the wind was very steady -- not gusty. I wrote it myself as I did almost all my speeches. Tapes from Croatia's nationwide radar system, which is monitored in Zagreb, were reviewed after the crash and show the plane was on course at the point it crossed over that beacon, according to Croatian investigators. Croatian and Air Force officials say there was moderate rain, no lightning, broken clouds at 400 feet, an overcast sky at 2,000 feet, a 12-knot wind and five miles of visibility at the airport at the time of the crash. "But the Air Force doesn't look at it that way." Sgt. Still, a flight instructor and former Air Force officer said he could imagine Captain Davis in the cockpit "having a conversation with himself, saying, 'What am I doing here?' The decision was made that the Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown should come with a delegation from the various U.S. agencies that handled economic matters along with businessmen. At about 7:20 P.M., two policemen and Mr. Djurkovic arrived at the site, having hiked the last several hundred feet up the steep, rocky slope in the cold rain. Her autopsy report states that Kelly died of a broken neck...", Freeper Earn Your Vote 8/27/99 "…Cogswell said that 'depending on who you talked to' Kelly was found either walking around or with a deep cut on her leg. About two minutes later, the plane hit the top of St. John the Baptist, a mountain 1.6 miles north of the runway, and exploded. The American military took two hours to start its search and eight hours to reach the wreckage, while the one known survivor of the crash, Sgt. needle as it points backward at the first beacon. The Croatians immediately began to mobilize for a search. at an appropriate approach speed �?? And she said my husband does the same. I didn’t go with it although, as usual, the Croatian ambassador was there. It was raining ferociously. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.

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