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Unlike most "freepers", I know the airport. It is surrounded by hills. Indeed, Dobrovnik city has 500+ hills quite nearby-- the Serbs destroyed this treasure of a city by shelling it from those hills...

When I was in Colombia, and the weather was foggy with only 500 feet visibility, I once asked why we couldn't take off from an airport. I was told that even though it was minimally VFR, the surrounding hills/mountains would be covered and they worried about hitting the higher mountains surrounding the field...and then they pointed out the site of a jet crash five years earlier. Four years later, an American airlines plane hit a mountain at the next airport---it missed a beacon that told them to turn.

Brown's plane should never have tried to do the flight. Unlike commercial pilots, where safety comes first, it was a gung ho type pilot...who took off in marginal weather, and going into an airport with an old fashioned radio beacon...a disaster waiting to happen. Indeed, at the time, there were rumors that a previous pilot refused to fly the group since they wanted him to take chances...

Brown's autopsy might have shown he was shot, or it might not. But given the terrain, the pilot, and the weather, I suspect it was an accident.

Cashill asserts that the plane was sabotaged--that it was diverted, in the first place to a different airport than what was scheduled. Then, the mechanisms which control the plane's detection of altitude were tampered with by a "fill-in" employee at the airport. According to Cashill, the expert in charge of these matters was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest the following day. Ruled a suicide.

Wish I had documentation, but just repeating what I heard on the tube.

But given the terrain, the pilot, and the weather, I suspect it was an accident.

I suspect you are right, which is why it will satisfy almost no one. The fact that the Clintons were in power at this time gives this story its wings.

BINGO. Occam's Razor (The simplest explanation is always the best one) says you are probably correct. the alternative conspiracy theory is so laughable (for one thing, given the number of people allegedly involved this would have been quite a well-known conspiracy). And as Sir Winston Churchill famously commented: "Three can keep a secret - if two of them are dead).

you make sense, but if you wanted an accident to happen, for the sake of argument, and you knew there was some tampering that was going to be done, wouldn’t you enlist that gung ho pilot?.....he might be the only one to do it...