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Please ping me if that name turns up for you bob

[Bob Ireland]

***> There was a passenger on TWA 800 that was supposed to have been on the same fatal flight as Ron Brown
Please ping me if that name turns up for you bob***

Sorry for the quality.
Mohammed Samir Ferrat, a wealthy Algerian businessman and financier. Good background.

This page on TWA 800 is more complete.

This page has quite a bit of info on Ferrat and his relationship with Ron Brown, including:

Samir Ferrat aparenntly first met Ron Brown in the Ivory Coast on a previous trade mission. Ferrat's Swiss-based finance firm SOFINSA invested $92 million into a building project in the Ivory Coast with Chadwick International, a modular home builder based in Fairfax, VA. Chadwick had a special arrangement with the US Export-Import bank which guaranteed 85% of its sales to third-wolrd countries. Ferrat, Ron Brown and the two founders of Chadwick, George S. Henderson (President) and Ronald M. Nocera (CEO) were photographed together in the Ivory Coast in February of 1996. The full extent of Ferrat's relationship with Brown is unknown, however he was close enough to Brown to offer his son condolences after the crash in Dubrovnik.

There is much that smacks of suspicious relationships. There are some that consider Ferrat as an Arkancide.

[Bob Ireland]

Some FR traffic at the time about TWA 800 and Mohammed Safir Ferrat:

To: A Whitewater Researcher
What do you suppose would be the actuarial [sp?] odds on one individual escaping one deadly plane crash only to be killed by another a short while later?
This item really is DAMNING!
From: Bob Ireland (corsairxxxxx.com) *
12/24/97 18:02:50 PST

To: Bob Ireland
Those would be astronomical odds. I'll check it up.
From: Arthur Wildfire! March (wildfire@xxxx.com) *
12/24/97 18:26:14 PST

To: Bob Ireland
This is just a quick estimate: 1 chance in 138 billion. This is not in the heavy details, and my math could be off.
I received these statistics at airsafe.com/airline/htm. Totaling up the US/Canada statistics of Delta, United, American, and US Airways, there were 69 million flights since 1970, and 30 accidents that led to fatalities, which amounts to 2.3 million flights per fatal crash. This would represent TWA 800.
However, we need to compare that with a worst-case scenario, such as the worst airline on earth, Aero Peru, which has 1 fatal crash per 60,000 flights. I would imagine that few would argue that Ron Brown was in any worse potential danger than that unless foul play would be assumed.
Then, to board a good, old US commercial flight destined for tragedy RIGHT AFTER the first would mean to multiply 60,000 by 2.3 million. But, I'm sure that a mathematician would find a more accurate way of working it out.
Result, 1 chance in 138 billion. If my math is correct, then it is unlikely that anyone had ever been scheduled on two non-military back-to-back airline tragedies since 1970 before (leading to deaths), unless that person had a 'whole heap' of schedule changes.
From: Arthur Wildfire! March (wildfire@xxxxxx.com) *
12/24/97 19:32:56 PST