Commerce Secretary Ron Brown among 35 people lost in Croatia plane crash 30 years ago this hour (Apr 3 1996)


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(Wednesday, April 3, 1996, 2:57 p.m. Central European Summer Time) — An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, 54, and American business executives slammed into a mountainside today as it approached the airport at Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard.