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Are French air traffic controllers responsible for Macedonian president's death? Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2004 @ 4:34 AM CSTAre French air traffic controllers responsible for Macedonian president's death? The enquiry has started on the crash that killed president Boris Trajkovski last Thursday, and the role of NATO after the crash in Bosnia. Boris Trajkovski was flying to an international conference in Mostar (Bosnie-Herzegovina) when he crashed, in the fog, at 80 km South of Sarajevo. The president was killed, together with six aides and the two pilots of the aircraft. French soldiers of SFOR, the NATO Stabilisation Force in...

Investigation Into Plane Crash That Killed Macedonian President Finds All Victims Died Instantly Feb 28, 2004 By Misha Savic / Associated Press Writer SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) - Macedonia's president and eight others were killed instantly when their plane crashed in southern Bosnia, investigators said Saturday, as forensic experts carried out DNA analysis to identify the bodies. In the Macedonian capital, officials said they would wait for investigators to finish their work before setting a date for elections to choose a successor to President Boris Trajkovski, the political moderate who was credited with helping defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001....

Web posted February 28, 2004 Source: A1 TV and Dnevnik SFOR Responsible For The Crash? "If the investigation shows that the engine of the plane didn’t run well, the flight controllers on Mostar flight will bear direct responsibility for the plane crash, that is to say the French battalion of SFOR", a source close to Bosnian team, which investigates the plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski and Macedonian delegation were killed, told "Beta" agency. "At the moment when the plane hit the hill, it was even 650 meters lower than minimally allowed flight height. Also, during the fall,...

Tapes May Unlock Macedonia Crash Mystery Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:42 PM ET By Nedim Dervisbegovic ROTIMLJA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Instrument and cockpit voice recordings from the plane in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski died are being examined to determine the cause of the mystery crash, officials said on Friday. The accident in the mountains of southern Bosnia on Thursday was at first attributed to aircraft failure, but Macedonian officials said there were signs other factors were involved. They gave no further details. "They've found two black boxes and those black boxes were taken away by the (Bosnian) civil aviation...

<p>Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Rescuers in Bosnia-Herzegovina failed to find an aircraft that crashed yesterday while carrying Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski on board, Agence France- Presse said, citing Bosnian police.</p> <p>Trajkovski, 47, and eight other people were on the King Air 200, a twin-engine turboprop aircraft, that crashed in fog near Stolac in a mountainous area of southern Bosnia, AFP reported. The Macedonian government late yesterday declared three days of national mourning after the crash that came on the day the former Yugoslav republic was to apply for European Union membership.</p>

Macedonian President killed in Balkans jet crash 27.02.2004 SKOPJE - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski was killed yesterday when his plane crashed into Bosnian mountains in thick fog. His death was confirmed by Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who was holding European Union talks with Macedonia's Prime Minister in Dublin. The 47-year-old President, whose tenure was marked by the 2001 crisis with ethnic Albanian rebels that brought the former Yugoslav republic to the brink of civil war, had been on a short flight to the Bosnian city of Mostar for an economic conference. A Government source in the Macedonian capital, Skopje,...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A plane carrying Macedonia's president to an international investment conference in Bosnia disappeared from radar, U.S. peacekeepers said Thursday. The Macedonian government aircraft, carrying President Boris Trajkovski to the conference in the western Bosnian city of Mostar, lost contact with air-traffick controllers near the border between Bosnia and Montenegro, said Capt. Ben Thorp, a spokesman for U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia. Officials said it was too early to determine whether the plane had crashed.

Saturday, May 17, 2003 Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Joint Press Conference with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski Trajkovski: First of all, I would like to greet Mr. Wolfowitz, whom I particularly appreciate as a person, a person who has taken an active part in promoting democracy and peace throughout the world. He is here today to express his appreciation to the Macedonian Government on his behalf and on behalf of the American administration for Macedonia's support to the coalition from the very beginning. I also took the opportunity to inform Mr. Wolfowitz that Macedonia will send a 40-man troop to Iraq on...