Air Crash Investigations - John F. Kennedy Jr. Killed In Plane Crash

By Dirk Jan Barreveld, editor

At 8:39 p.m. on July 16,1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, departed from Essex County Airport (IATA: CDW), a public use airport located in Fairfield Township, Essex County. His destination was Martha’s Vineyard Airport. Kennedy checked in with the air traffic control tower of Martha’s Vinayard Airport before departure. There were three persons on board the Piper Saratoga: John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. Martha’s Vineyard Airport (IATA: MVY) is an airport located in the middle of the island of Martha’s Vineyard, just south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Kennedy’s plane never arrived in Martha’s Vineyard. The plane wreck was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean two days later. All three inhabitants of the plane were dead. The cause of the crash was spatial disorientation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365517297

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Air Crash Investigations - John F. Kennedy Jr. Killed In Plane Crash

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS

Over the last decades flying has become an every day event, there is nothing special about it anymore. Safety has increased tremendously, but unfortunately accidents still happen. Every accident is a source for improvement. It is therefore essential that the precise cause or probable cause of accidents is as widely known as possible. It can not only take away fear for flying but it can also make passengers aware of unusual things during a flight and so play a role in preventing accidents.

Air Crash Investigation Reports are published by official government entities and can in principle usually be down loaded from the websites of these entities. It is however not always easy, certainly not by foreign countries, to locate the report someone is looking for. Often the reports are accompanied by numerous extensive and very technical specifications and appendices and therefore not easy readable. In this series we have streamlined the reports of a number of important accidents in aviation without compromising in any way the content of the reports in order to make the issue at stake more easily accessible for a wider public.

An e-Book is different from a printed book. Especially tables, graphs, maps, foot and end notes and images are sometimes too complicated to be reproduced properly in an e-Book. For those who are interested in the full details of the story we refer to the printed edition of this publication.

Dirk Jan Barreveld, editor.

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John F. Kennedy Jr.

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS-JOHN F. KENNEDY JR KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS-John F. Kennedy Jr killed in plane crash. NTSB Aircraft Accident Report NYC99MA178.

On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the airplane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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Table of Content

AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS-John F. Kennedy Jr killed in plane crash.

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: History of the flight

Chapter 2 Pilot information

Chapter 3: Aircraft and Meteorological information

Chapter 4: Communications

Chapter 5: Airport and Wreckage information

Chapter 6: Tests and Research

Chapter 7: Additional information

Notes

John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Piper Saratoga II

Preface

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960 at Georgetown University Hospital. It was exactly two weeks after his father, John F. Kennedy, was elected as 35th President of the United States of America. John Jr. was the second child of the Kennedy family, he had an older sister, Caroline. An infant brother, Patrick died two days after his premature birth in 1963.

John Jr. lived in the White House during the first three years of his life, until the assassination of his father on November 22, 1963.

Everybody remembers the iconic image of the 1960s, as John Jr. stepped forward and rendered a final salute as his father’s flag-draped casket was carried out from St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington DC.

After his father’s assassination, Kennedy moved to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, with his mother and sister, where he grew up. After his uncle Robert was assassinated in 1968, his mother took him and his sister out of the United States, she did not want her children to be targets of future killings. In the he same year, she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, and the family went to live on his private island of Skorpios. In 1971, Kennedy returned to the White House with his mother and sister for the first time since the assassination. President Richard daughters gave the family a tour that included his old bedroom. When Onassis died in 1975, he left Kennedy $25,000, though Jacqueline was able to renegotiate the will, and acquired $20 million for herself and her children.¹

Kennedy attended private schools in New York City, and completed high school at Philips Andover Academy, Massachusetts. After graduating, he went to Brown University where he majored in American studies. He graduated in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in American studies, and then took a working break, traveling to India and spending some time at the University of Delhi.

In 1989, Kennedy earned a J.D. degree from the New York University

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Father and son John F. Kennedy

School of Law ². He failed twice the New York bar exam, before passing on his third try in July 1990.³ Next he worked four years as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

In summer 1992, he worked as a journalist and was commissioned by The New York Times to write an article about his kayaking expedition to the Aland Archipelago.

In 1995, Kennedy and public relations magnate Michael Berman founded George, a glossy, politics-as-lifestyle and fashion monthly, with Kennedy controlling 50 percent of the shares.⁴

By early 1997, Kennedy and Berman found themselves locked in a power struggle, eventually Berman sold his share of the company, and Kennedy took on Berman's responsibilities himself. Berman’s departure was followed by a rapid drop in sales.⁵

After John’s death, the magazine was bought out by Hachette, but folded in early 2001.⁶, ⁷

Personal life

Kennedy was linked with several celebrities such as Brooke Shields, Sally Munro, Cindy Crawford and Julie Bakeras well as actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Daryl Hannah. Not long after his relationship with Daryl Hannah ended, Kennedy began living with Carolyn Bessette, the youngest daughter of William J. Bessette. They