BROWN'S PLANE MISSING ON FLIGHT TO DUBROVNIK - SPOKESMAN

WASHINGTON/ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - A plane carrying US Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown went missing on Wednesday afternoon on a flight from the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla to the southern Croatian town of Dubrovnik, White House press secretary Mike McCurry said. McCurry told a press briefing in Washington that the plane had been three hours overdue in Dubrovnik. He could not confirm whether it had crashed but added that the wreckege of a plane had been sighted off the coast of Dubrovnik. Earlier on Wednesday, Brown had visited Tuzla together with a 12-member delegation of big private corporations to discuss with local authorities US plans to begin the reconstruction of Bosnia with investments in energy, transport and communications. The US officials had also visited US troops deployed in Bosnia as part of the NATO-led peace Implementation Force (IFOR). (hina) vm jn 031934 MET apr 96