Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. On April 3, 1996, a United States Air Force CT-43 crashed in Croatia while on an official trade mission. The aircraft, a modified Boeing 737, was carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people, including The New York Times Frankfurt Bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash. While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside killing everyone onboard. Air Force Tech. Sgt Shelly Kelly initially survived the impact of the crash but died from her injuries hours later in an ambulance.