As darkness fell on the night of July 16, 1999, John F Kennedy Jr climbed into the cockpit of his Piper Saratoga II.
The avid flyer was taking his wife of nearly three years, Carolyn Bessette, to his cousin’s wedding in the Massachusetts village of Hyannis Port, dropping off Carolyn’s sister Lauren in Martha’s Vineyard on the way.
But they would never make it.
About an hour after taking off from the Essex Country Airport in New Jersey, tragedy struck, with Kennedy, 38, becoming disoriented, losing control of the plane and plummeting downwards in what experts call a ‘graveyard spiral.’
The crash, just seven and
To provide well-rounded coverage and a breadth of insight across various events, we rely on contributions from several staff writers, each bringing their own area of expertise to our publication.