The Search for JFK Jr's Lost Aircraft
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- A chronology of the search and recovery operation undertaken for the aircraft piloted by John F. Kennedy, Jr., with his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette. A multi-agency search operation involving search and rescue aircraft and ships from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Civil Air Patrol, the NOAA, and the Massachusetts State Police.
John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died when the light aircraft he was flying crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1999. Kennedy's wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette, were also killed. The Piper Saratoga departed from New Jersey's Essex County Airport, and its intended route was along the coastline of Connecticut and across Rhode Island Sound to Martha's Vineyard Airport.
The official investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board officially concluded that Kennedy fell victim to spatial disorientation while he was descending over water at night and consequently lost control of his plane. Kennedy did not hold an instrument rating and therefore he was only certified to fly under visual flight rules. At the time of the crash, the weather and light conditions were such that all basic landmarks were obscured, making visual flight challenging, although legally still permissible. - บันเทิง
I remember this morning so well. As someone who lost both of my older siblings too soon, my first thought when the news announced his plane was missing was, “Oh, my God. His poor sister.” I was unaware that Carolyn Bissett’s sister, who died with them, had left behind a twin. Another person who lost 2 siblings that day. I felt this tragedy deeply. I was glad John’s mother didn’t live to see this happen.
Her parents lost TWO children. TWO daughters. Yet the sister barely ever gets mentioned by name
Yes, i felt awful for the girls' poor mother. Losing her two daughters...
Lauren was a twin, so her twin lost two sisters.
@@carmeng5421 and the sister
Seems to trendy...I didn't know Biden had a twin
That’s all you care about typical woman
Its a blessing, that Jackie passed away before her son. She had , more than her share of tragedy!
Yeah you re probably right Sally Clay His death was premature and untimely
Yes I agree mam.
Jackie was a shallow parasite. She married Onassis who loved her just for his money and ignored him while she sucked it up. He got smart, tossed her out with nothing and made sure the worthless wench got nothing when he died. Nobody who knew her had any respect for the woman who said MLK should know his place and was so stupid she modeled clothes while hubby banged his secretaries, movie stars and whatever moved.
Good riddance to the gratefully Dead Kennedy's !!
I remember having the totally irrational hope that the three of them somehow miraculously floated to the surface on a raft or that they would be seen waving from a beach. It was just so hard to accept that John Jr. was gone.
yes, I had that hope as well. I thought - there is no way they can be dead. I grew up with this guy! And I was totally gutted when the news came that they were found dead .
It was that Kennedy family curse...
@@airsearch9192 Like F Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Give me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy...."
That's what they wanted us all to believe. This guy is so much smarter than you give him credit for. One he would never have flown that evening, 2 what we wanna know is who was truly in his plane? 3 I'm 58 now and I wanna know the truth and I think we all deserve that.
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This one still hurts, all these years later.
Yes it does..this one just so painful. What could have been, you know. You Tube has a great documentary on JFK JR'S wedding. A friend of his took video of that whole weekend. It's great to watch.
@@sandrasanders706 Yes, I just watched the wedding video last week. It was so touching. And kinda funny how absent-minded JFK & Caroline were. Like, they fly all their guests to this remote island and make them clean out the wedding chapel in their dress clothes in stifling humid weather. LOL.
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@pam0626 He made them work..lol. When JFK Jr was a teen, he was getting into some trouble. Jackie (his Mom of course) sent him to a working cowboy ranch and it changed the whole course of his life. So he learned quickly about responsibility!
@@sandrasanders706 Yes, I remember reading that. I think he also did a summer or two in Africa.
A man I worked with, at the time, was a small aircraft pilot. I asked what he would have done that night. He said to get in a car and drive.
Wow taht is so not even a little interesting... ugh
Why you mad?
That's the right answer and is what is taught in elementary flying school.
r take a commercial flight
@@slowery43idiot alert. 🚨
I was on Cape Cod on Sat/Sun & took a ferry to Martha's Vineyard on Monday. It was sad and if you were paying attention, you heard & felt the distress of the residents
17 miles from M.V. so close to their final destination.
I remember this like it was yesterday. They were a beautiful couple. I hurt for the mom who lost two daughters at once and this family’s loss is too much for one family. His dad was killed at only 46 years old he was 38, Carolyn 33 & her sister 34. RIP
Absolutely Heartbreaking!
He is alive and Americas VP riday
So do I. I cried we we found them. Watch the burial
At sea.
@@madeleinedonaldson4422 really. Like Elvis??
@@madeleinedonaldson4422 like Elvis??
Several years later I got my pilot’s license and then owned the same model plane JFK Jr. died in. My flight instructor had us read FAA accident reports, including Kennedy’s, as learning exercises. I was a fan of his, but he made so many bad decisions before and during that flight, they simply compounded together and led to the crash. RIP.
Oh thank the Lord finally a reasonable comment that isn't some conspiracy theory! 👍
As I'm sure you know, when you're over the ocean, at night, with no horizon, no lit landmarks, along with not being IFR rated, it's quite the recipe for disaster.
@@sigvicious5599 Amen! A reasonable reply that makes perfect common sense instead of a conspiracy theory this reply thread is heaven
As a non-pilot I understand that in those hazy conditions you can easily lose sight of the horizon and not know if you are turning, but if you monitor your instruments at all shouldn't the artificial horizon clearly show that you are turning and descending?
@@wahlert1993Ah. Someone said.
They should never let him fly with a broken foot and not being properly certified, what a tragedy
@@tiffanysanchez9184 because he had a boot on his foot on and he was NOT fully instrument certified. He was my age and a friend knew him very well, that’s how I know.
The broken foot is well known from photos at that time. 🙄
His broken foot had nothing to do with his accident. He developed spatial disorientation (which happens to many pilots) but he trusted his body instead of his instruments. His instruments were telling him to level off but his body was telling him the opposite. In his situation, he only had seconds to make a decision and he made the wrong one.
@@concernedamerican6961 and what a shame, but I’m sorry every circumstance in a situation where you are not extremely experienced and have loved ones with you matters. You’re off balance with a boot it all makes a difference. People failed him because of who he was. Who says no to a Kennedy? Such a tragedy
Interesting...another channel report never mentioned the broken foot and claimed JFK had all the necessary licenses and certifications.
More than likely he was taking some pain meds for the foot too. Which would affect his cognitive functions.
The 'Theys'...would have been him, JFK should have said, I am not fit to fly.
And/or rescheduled the flight because of the late arrival of his wife.
I will always remember this! My sister had been in Mexico receiving cancer treatments, she died on the 16th in Mexico, her body was finally returned to us on the day they were found 😢
much love
Dang! Mexico? Must have been experimental drugs.
I'm very sorry that your sister died.🌹May she rest in peace. 🕊️
(((Hugs)))
Sorry for your loss.
If this had been a regular person, there is NO WAY the Government would've gone to this much effort.
Trump wouldn't have authorized the search if he were still playing President when this happened. Not for JFK Jr that is. If it had been a high profile right wing nut job who was missing at sea, yes.
This was the son of a former president, his wife and her sister. Of course the government would be involved in recovering them.
You got that right
When the Navy is called in immediately you know calls were made!
Well yeah, DUH
I remember that horrible day. What a terrible nightmare. Camelot finally officially ended that dreadful day...
No, Camelot ended when JFK was assassinated in Dallas.
What is about Robert Kennedy....??
Camelot continues with RFK Jr.😂😂😂😂😂
@@cadaverdog1424N.O.P.E.
I remember when I heard about the missing plane. I knew what happened and told my then wife they would find the plane relatively intact probably with the bodies inside. John chose to ignore what his airplane was telling him and instead listen to his inner ear. RIP
His mother didn't want him flying- he waited for her to pass on before taking lessons. He had a lot of explaining to when he got to Heaven
I flew a jet into Santa Barbara in twilight a few days later under very similar conditions. I remember keeping my scan mostly inside on instruments until we were lined up with the runway. After we landed we were discussing how it was probably what JFK JR experienced, and how there was no way you could stay right side up by looking outside, where the horizon was so obscured
@@wahlert1993 ....And John, Jr. never took the time to get instrument trained. He couldn't read the instruments. And he was flying without insurance. And he refused to let a veteran pilot come along with him at the small airport in New Jersey. Those are the reasons that Ann Freeman, mother of Lauren and Carolyn, sued John, Jr's estate. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg forked over $20-$25 million to Ann Freeman.
@@wahlert1993 what is ripping lines
@@annarandazzo9494 snorting drugs
@@soso8824 actually, John was in the process of instrument training, he needed 100 hours but he only had 50 hours and Caroline Kennedy gave ann freeman a financial settlement before she could sue jfk jr estate.
@@ilovemickyandhelove1 I miss seeing John in the magazines so very much. I hope that he has found comfort in the arms of the angels. God bless and Amen.🙏😇✝️
I remember this literally like it was yesterday. I was glued to the tv holding my newborn and praying that it wasn’t true. I often wonder what his future would have looked like. So sad still to this day.
No, you mean you FIGURATIVELY remember this like it was yesterday. When will the constantly misused fad word "literally" finally go the way of "Not!"?
Figuratively not literally
@@generalyellor8188 Yea, it's not your birthday, it is the anniversary of your birthday
Big deal. Everyone that was an adult remembers. 🤷♀️
@@generalyellor8188 it will never go away. For some reason people like her literally think using that word literally makes their statement more valid. Literally .
I have personally experienced what happened to them, except I survived thanks to my excellent RAF training. You have no idea how terrifying it must have been. I do......flying a much cancelled navex, so determined to push thru worsening weather....flew thru small cloud, fine; then bigger one, fine; then a bigger one and everything went to shit - altimeter unwinding; noise deafening; speed thru the roof; pulling back just making things worse; seconds to live; I was 19........"Its not hard....power back to idle to reduce rate of descent; roll wings level using Artificial Horizon, THEN pull hard; hope......" soaring back up at 300+kts, exulting at being alive. Flew again the next day, confident I had faced the worst and surprised myself at being so steely. RIP JFK junior et al. CAVU skies to all pliots!
Their terror in their final moments must have been unthinkable.
@@pleasedroses3811 Yes. The 2 women would be in backfacing seats, unable to help. The Saratoga is a lot of aeroplane - variable pitch prop, and retractable under carriage.
Pilots HAVE to learn how to isolate their emotions. I found it difficult, as I am a nervous nelly.......eventually you have to say, "I will do my best. If not good enough, too bad!."......we wore Nomex frame resistant coveralls; a Mae West life jacket; tight fire resistant gloves; a parachute/dinghy pack; an electric hat and a bone dome on top - I was the only one to paint his. Racing red. I was also the only one to be given a Permanent Commission with accelerated promotion and double pay! One of 20 from 4,000 applicants......the first time in my life when someone said I was good.... All the very best!
@@davidwheatcroft2797 there have also been several accounts that JFK Jr and Carolyn were separated and they had reunited for this trip to try to work out their marital problems. They had reportedly always had a volatile relationship. It’s sad to think that they were in bad terms when the plane went down.
@@pleasedroses3811 Yes, she was a cow, always causing trouble. Not that good looking. Took no interest in flying. Always about HER. And her shitty family sued his estate. Classy, eh?
BUT, he was at fault. Leaving SO late, heading East with NO horizon; f-ck all IFR training.
Flying kills the lazy, the arrogant, the stupid. There are 2 worlds. The walking, driving, safe one, and the flying, one where a mistake will kill you. It was an honour to fly formation, aerobatics, instruments at week ends, then return to the mundane University campus.
@@davidwheatcroft2797 I just watched a tape from 1996 where Carolyn and John had an infamous fight in a public park. John was sitting on the ground with his knees up to his chest and sobbing like a child. Carolyn was screaming at him and physically threatening him. I doubt that they would have stayed together had they lived.
That search effort was not so difficult. Yes, it was the ocean, but not the "deep" ocean and we have good technology to locate such materials. The crash was such a tragedy, we still feel the effects when we watch footage like this, even now.
They should have never flown in such conditions. I remembered an experienced pilot cancelled out on his flight because of the bad weather.
I left Nantucket that evening heading west towards KISP MacArthur Airport on Long Island at 8000’ in a Falcon 900. I went VFR because it was a short trip and the weather was good but when I lifted off it was totally BLACK no moon,stars , nothing so as a professional pilot I just used the flight instruments and kept going. I had to pass him within a few miles him going East and me going west. The next morning I’m home with my wife and kids and it came on the TV. I was stunned!
Wow! That's amazing!
Wow
Not a good idea to fly at night unless you are instrument rated and have many hours of night flying.
IIRC, his wife or SIL was very late to the airport.
He was waiting on Carolyn and her sister. Had they left on time, he would not have been flying in the dark.
He actually was very skilled and had more IFR hours than required. Sad the narrative stated otherwise. Two Mistakes: not switching the gas tank load/to distribute the weight. And failure to enter the radio frequency of the airport correctly. he was one number off. he never heard the ATC tower. at 17 miles he should have heard and made contact.
@@annademo hey she had shopping to do.
@@b.walker5955 how many of those hours were night flying?
As the son of a long time private pilot, one can never over prepare for the possibility of a disaster. Experienced pilots crash, too. JFK was only moderately experienced. It's really a shame because he was a likeable, fascinating guy.
plain was sabotaged, he was assassinated because he was going to run 4 office/president
I wouldn’t say moderately experienced. More like Basically experienced.
JFKJ is alive,HRC was responsible she put the hit on John,a small bomb was found attached to the fuselage it was set to explode over the water.🕊️
As a friend of one of the Navy recovery divers, the information he shared "off the record" about what they found down there, would shed new light as a contributing factor as to why the plane went down.
That sounds interesting. But I thought they reconstructed the aircraft in a hangar?
Tell us more. I heard that one of the rescue men got drunk at a Christmas party years after the tragedy and blurted out that they didn't find Lauren Bessette's body.
Depends who's listening👻👍 waiting to hear you all sing the national anthem AMAZING GRACE considering it's your least favourite song and country of course now adays could of been anyone including yourself. TUNE IN 66.3 FM HEART RADIO STATION PMSL😂
And my second cousin who is a fully trained barista, told me he was diving at the site and there was also a UFO there that obviously caused the crash and there were three little alien bodies there too but it was covered up by men in black. It is great to know the full truth!
All of these replies are interesting. Even the one about to U.F.O. I heard someone say in a video while back that U.F.O.s are really Time Machines created by us passing through at a given time from the future. If thats true,what if someone came back and saved them in the ufo. Just hypothetically theorizing here guys. Thats all, but how cool would that be?
I know we all hoped they were safe somewhere waiting to be rescued. What a sad ending for all 3 of them. I’m glad his mom wasn’t here to see her son taken away too and she didn’t want John to fly a plane for exactly that reason. And poor Caroline now has lost her whole family. Now she’s a survivor!
Yep,.....dad murdered,....set up by George Bush, Sr.
Brother murdered,........also set up by the Bushes,........
............................hey,....I'm starting to see a pattern here.
What about the poor mother of the two sisters?? What a horrible tragedy for her.
I read that she wound up suing his estate over their deaths, which is good and might make other pilots think twice about night flying with LITTLE EXPERIENCE!!
@@carmeng5421 you answered your own question. The story is about searching for JFK Jr. So I answered the question. I didn’t want to be negative about it but you come along and take over the conversation and make a negative comment. Smh
I read that he bought that plane as an upgrade from his prior one and that it was "too much plane" for his level of experience.
Exactly right. His first plane was a 1977 Cessna Skyline 182
He never should have flown without having his IFR rating.
he shouldnt have been flying at all, before he took off an IFR rated iinstructor told him he would not fly himself, and that kennedy would be crazy to attempt it, due to weather,
FYI: my friend Chris's wife was on patrol for the Coast Guard off Martha's Vineyard...her boat was told to stand down for 90 minutes before arriving at crash site...I have no idea what this means, but his death was huge in the personal political aspirations of you know who, HRC🤔😳😨🤯🤡
@@bobconnolly190 he was murdered
He was going up against Killary Clinton for N.Y. at the time. The media spun a story he was unexperienced but he was. He was also best friends with former President Donald Trump who changed after this in that he woke up.
He ESPECIALLY shouldn't been flying with other souls on board. If HE wanted to risk it HIMSELF, that's one thing, however when other people are involved that's something else. You CANNOT take someone else's life in your hands like this. They assumed he knew what he was doing to their own peril
I was living on the coastline along the Connecticut Rhode Island border. HIs plane likely would have passed in sight of where I was that hazy summer night.
Funny thing is, my brother and I had been playing the European Air War combat sim against each other the night of JFK Jr's crash. We were in a turning dogfight in hazy conditions at dusk in the sim and whenever our planes faced away from the sunset we lost sight of the horizon and all sense of up and down. It was very disorienting and you had to rely completely on your instruments to keep oriented until you turned back towards the setting sun. When I learned JFK Jr's plane had gone down in the early evening of that hazy night I immediately remembered how easily disoriented I got in that flight sim and wondered if the same thing had happened to him. It turned out that was exactly what happened. A strange experience.
What the hell does this have to do with you, pion.
I'd lost my brother four months before this happened. My Mother came to my job and told me the news. We were both heartbroken as Mother's and myself knowing what Caroline was going through.
me, me, me, me it's not about you, pion.
Nobody said it was jackass!
I remember this so clearly in my mind. The weather here in NYC had been so humid and hazey for a few days, especially the evening he took off and the next two or three days during the search. I couldn't stop watching the news, hoping they would be found alive.
I remember how down to earth he was. I thank God his Mother was not alive to see this happen to all of them as she always worried about his deep interest in flying and planes as a young boy. Then he bought a flying machine you sat on and flew around where you were. Sad awful day for the whole Kennedy family..
What do you mean, down to earth? I think flying this plane that he was UNFAMILIAR with was foolish and arrogant on his part. He did NOT KNOW that plane well and didn't have enough experience! To me that's arrogance.
He died on my 26th birthday 😢 I'll never forget it
Thanks for sharing that Jenna. I'm 65 years old which is old enough to have lived through all three of the Kennedy family tragedies. I'll never forget how my mom, and the whole city of San Diego, was in shock when JFK was assassinated.
His mom knew and was always afraid that this would happen he should have gotten someone else to fly the plane he would be alive today so sad
Als ganz großer Fan der Kennedy Familie, vorallem J.F. K. Und Robert, habe ich alles gelesen und im TV geschaut was ich nur finden konnte über die gesamte Familie Kennedy. Ich habe auch einen großen Bildband über John F. Und seine Familie geschenkt bekommen. Das fasziniert mich heute noch! Welch ein Schock war das, als ich vom Absturz des John jr. Mit Familie gelesen habe. So ein Leid, was diesen Kennedys widerfahren ist, ist unfassbar. Als ich 1991 in Baltimore war, konnte ich das Grab in Arlington der Kennedy besuchen. Das habe ich bis heute noch in dankbarer Erinnerung, denn das war ein großer 💕 Herzenswunsch von mir!
You forgot to include Massachusetts Environmental Police as well. I was on the cape for Marine Corps Reserve drill weekend. Remember it vividly.
I was a young VFR pilot years ago, and can remember flying over Central Florida at night: Pitch black, and not a fleck of light on the ground way before Florida was so mega-built-up! My instructor had never told me it could get so dark! So I watched the instruments, kept it straight and level, until i finally flew into lit-up Daytona Beach!
All pilots should be IFR-competent: anyone VFR-limited can become disoriented when flying thru cloud, and you're likely to encounter mist and cloud at any time.
Thanks for sharing your story. I sat next to the navigator as we crossed the North Atlantic in a C-130. It was black as ink out there, and ice cold too.
I remember JFK jr. at his father funeral, may now he rest in peace ☮️ also his wife and sister-in-law.😞
That broke my heart when John F Kennedy his wife and sister-in-law died in that small airplanes don't fly at night if you not professional pilot to fly any aircraft. Rip 🙏 🙏
He was so incredibly handsome.
Too bad his arrogance got ahead of his common sense. Dang shame.
@@darcymoon2109👹
This will always stick in my mind because I was watching the story in the hospital as I given birth to my daughter the day before.
Actually his mother forbid 🚫 him to fly when she was alive...he didn't pursue the pilot thing until after her death.
😳
I met JFK Jr at the US Open 1995 Qns NYC...extremely down to earth fella
Lucky!
you meet him for like 2 minutes and you think you knew him. WTF
Everyone with a pilot license should be instrument rated.
That's an excellent idea. Thanks
The fact that they were cremated is so strange. Is John jr the only Kennedy to have been cremated ? He could have been burried with his parents and his dead brother Patrick in Arlington.
His body was in terrible condition from the salt water and trauma from the accident
Probably just tired of people , just make a death and they will leave u alone
@@kari8187
We're is your evidence of that?
Where are his ashes now?
@@anitawillis1704 the coroner report
Watching this right now and can't help but think how similar this tragedy is to the 2023 Oceangate tragedy. The negligence of the pilot, hope given to the public, the rescue and search turned recovery mission... How sad.
I remember hearing their plane was missing and feared the worst. Very sad, such a waste of 3 young lives. I've always heard that small planes are dangerous. I know he loved to fly, but damn, not in that weather. RIP
Yes, I feared the worst too.
Small aircraft aren't dangerous so long as you fly them within their limitations and within your limitations. The aircraft was perfectly fine for the trip, but not the pilot 😞
@@kkiwi54 Do you agree that the percentage of small plane crashes and fatalities far out weigh the number of commercial flights? I believe that has been proved. Nothing against good pilots, just the history.
@@debbiemullen2574 Nope, statistically small plane crashes are still rare enough the make news broadcasts, yet no auto crashes are ever covered unless they are particularly horrific. Thousand more die on the roads. Most private aircraft carry 8-10 pax or less so I imagine a single airline crash with all fatalities would still make a higher # of fatalities overall than private planes. I never looked up the stats so please cite sources if you know.
His pilot instructor offered to go with him that day but he declined.
👍👍👍😮💨😮💨😮💨indeed I,ve heard about it...not very wise of john!
I would hope that any lives lost in this way would have the same dedication and commitment to bringing them home.
Us regular people don’t fit the criteria unless it’s mass casualties. 3 people would be a 10 second segment on the local news.
...a crude truth about how the "world" works.
If the three were just "ordinary" people (not celebreties), no way would all those ships, planes and personnel would be utilized to find them.
Welcome to the US. If your father was a former US POTUS they would look for you too. That's not that weird.
Well he was the beloved only Son that we all saw grow up ... after our president and his father, was assassinated. Yeah, he was special to not only his immediate family but to his American family as well ..
From what I have read he was flying with a cast on his ankle. Maybe he should have had another pilot with him to assist? Kind of hard to work the rudder pedals with a cast. FLY NAVY!!!
👍👍👍👍😮💨😮💨a broken ankle can be very very painfull...I known...and you do need heavy painkillers...!
It's so sad that John and his wife had died so tragically. Her sister too. Too bad
❤❤❤❤❤❤heartbreaking!
Roberts mother Jackie, hated for her son to become a pilot. He did wait to fly after she was gone. She had a premonition and she knew hed make a grave mistake. Crashes are mostly pilot error. He is blessed, and had a wonderful life.
I waited listening to AM radio in Chicago everyday waiting to hear they found them alive. As every day passed,the more I knew the inevitable. America's prince was gone. My thoughts and prayers go out to Caroline,and the mother of Carolyn and her sister Lauren. Such a tragic accident.
Princess really, this is the United States we don't have Princesses. Just corrupt politicians.
America doesn't have princes. Thank God.
@@joe92 educate yourself in the time of Camelot. It's a figure of speech.
Spacial disorientation can bite a pilot very quickly. I've almost bit the dust from it too flying in pitch dark with zero outside references. Gotta put your trust in the instruments and even though your body is trying to defy them, you have to trust them. JFK Jr's plane, the PA32 Saratoga, is a high performance single engine airplane and quite quick and when you get out of control and into the spiral of death, there's no saving it. I remember feeling so horribly for all 3 because they knew they were gonna die as that airplane headed towards the ocean.
@@wahlert1993 I’m sure h we found the mirror and razor right ?😂
@@wahlert1993 knew "someone who said" but really knew bugger all.
He was inexperienced and basically killed two innocent people. Why people give the Kennedy's excuses all the time is beyond me.
May they all Rest In Peace, Amen!
At about 2:30 my pager started! You got some of the facts screwed up. The C 130 was a CG aircraft out of E City! It arrived after the confusion over the scene caused by news helios, Air National Guard HH 60’s , and the Coast Guard helios. It s function was air traffic control. By 6 am the CG had located floating aircraft tires. I directed my agency’s initial response including boats and crews from Falmouth, Boston, New Bedford and the Vineyard. It was already too late and it was quickly became a dive operation. I saw the plane later at the Coast Guard base. Truly a tragic event.
Wow! Fascinating!
Let’s remind people, the ship that found the plane, took 2 years to find flight 447..
What?? That wasn't the same ship.
Even if it was the same ship... 2 different locations and circumstances.
I was surprised at how sick and upset I felt while he was missing. I’m not a sycophantic-type person and had really never given him much thought. I guess he just had been so present my whole life; we were the same age, and his father’s murder is my very first memory. Sad.
you know he woulda been president some day, he was magnificent...
You're right. He was born into America's "royal family"
He was not presidential material
No, he was whipped and it cost him dearly.
@@airsearch9192 in the USA we don't have Royalty much less royal families.
no, he would not have been president. You guys just want the history of JFK to be renewed. The Jr. was a strange man.
The government report on the accident covers in detail what happen. Spatial Disorientation. In complete darkness you have to fly based on instrument readings because you can become disoriented and think you are flying higher when you are actually going lower, then you overcompensate by pushing the plane down which makes matters worse until the plane slams into the ground or in this case ocean. He got caught in those conditions when he left the coastline lights and flew into total darkness. He should not have flown that time or took along a pilot skilled at flying based on instrument readings. Unfortunately, you don't get a second chance when you make that kind of mistake.
Very interesting. Thanks for that explanation. Comments like yours and others like it have been really fascinating.
This was so sad. Remember just feeling frozen waiting to hear. It couldn’t be true. 🙏🏻
I’ll never forget that business card … because I had the exact same one but with my name on it. I had worked at 1585 Broadway for MSDW in ‘98…. Weird.
Yes - finding that card on a briefcase that floated up onto the shore would've been VERY spooky.
@@airsearch9192 I choked when I saw it on the news report .., was able to show my then-boyfriend that I had almost the same business card, which I still have today (biz card & now-husband) …. I still see it today on your clip & get a shiver … and then I realize that I am really old. 🤣🤣🤣 middle-aged but cute, but feeling old!!! Nice clip, btw. Thanks for nostalgia, good & bad.
WOW to have seen the exact same business card must have been surreal. Something you may never shake.
@@b.walker5955 Yeah, I’m still in therapy. Haunts me every minute of every day. I just draw the business card over and over, one with my name, the next with her name. _Lowenstein, Lowenstein, Lowenstein_
@@hlowrylong Oh friend...It is as if she was counting on you and your connection with her to find it. Have no idea why YOU were to find that card. But know you have done more than was required. Now, you make the decision to move forward. It is yours to make. Let go of it. She is at rest, and would want you to also be at peace. ~Peace to you.
I still get choked up seeing this. What a horrible day for America and the Kennedy & Bessette family.
JFK Jr.'s untimely and awful passing paved the way for Hillary and her assumption of the New York Senate Seat.
Take all the time you need.
RIP - such a tragedy.
JFK Jr would have been a better Senator than Hillary
Thought the same thing Ian Hamilton
@@kathryneast6919 Anybody would’ve been a better senator than Hillary
He would have gotten that seat ... hmm just wondering.
Absolutely false
I'll always remember THIS about this tragedy. I used to watch Sex and the City when this happened. In one episode Samantha slept with an old monied guy and his wife "Buffie" socially assassinated Samantha. Samantha couldn't go anywhere in Manhattan without being shunned. She was a social pariah. Samantha only got her social standing back when she met JFK Jr. one day while they were doing community clean up or something. NOW...this episode aired on the normal Saturday night slot on HBO. HBO showed the prior episode on the following Friday before the new show on Saturday night. JFK Jr. died sometime after the Saturday night showing of this show so by the time the Friday night recap came around they edited out JFK and added Leonardo DiCaprio as the guy that Samantha met to get her social standing back. Only die-hard Sex and the City watchers will remember this. RIP to him and the Bessett sisters.
Interesting. I know the episode (and every other one) very well.
I was a die hard SATC watcher and I don't remember Leo on it lol.
@@meghanmisaliar JFK Jr.'s name was mentioned during Carrie's narration. It was edited out and replaced with Leo's.
After all these years I’m sending hugs and prayers to his family may he remain at peace
excellent virtue signaling there cupcake, nice work
I remember when this happened. We were having a family reunion at a beach house on the NC coast. I think we were staying at Emerald Isle. This seemed to be the only thing on the news at the time.
The authorities should have responded like they do to all other such callers .
" They are all adults , there is nothing we can do "
Funny lol.
Thanks for not mentioning the volunteer Civil Air Patrol searchers.
I have to wonder why these stories are suddenly showing up on my page..
From what I understand, he should have never been flying at all in that kind of weather and said he did not even have that many flying hour's how sad 😞 😢
How much pain can two families bear? The Bessett and The Kennedy’s such a tragedy…may the all RIP!
I worked for the company that made the engine for his plane...the plane engine is in storage in their facility
you were a Lycoming employee? not missing much here now. lol
I vividly remember this, because my father died on the same day. A very sad day for the Kennedys & my family.
I’m sorry for the loss of your father.🕊️
@@laurat1129 Thank you
If they weren't Kennedys, they would still be on the bottom of the ocean.
You think so?
True, but his was Pres. JFK's son. Clinton was not just going to leave him (and wife, sister-in-law) at the bottom of the ocean.
Truth.
Or a pretty intern.
Of course it’s still possible that his wife helped make it happen.
No, they would've been recovered by sunrise.
Remember - this happened right after Clinton's Monica Lewinski affair. He needed some good PR
This was devastating. I remember when this happened. It was terrible. I see this and it makes me so sad to this day.
Me, too. 🥺
Can you imagine the high pitched screeching in that cockpit? I didn’t know that Saratogas came with dual airbags.
My heart races whenever John jr is mentioned. I'll never get over him being gone.
Or so stupid
Y.E.S., SAME. SADLY😭
They'd never do all that for a regular person
I was so hoping and praying they were still alive. I felt so bad when they said they had found there bodies. I was heart broken.
Sea life must have gotten to them.
I had a conversation with a pilot from Plymouth Massachusetts. He told me his friends worked on that recovery mission. He was told, lobsters had been eating their faces while at the bottom of the ocean.. Probably why they were cremated so quickly
Since the Kennedy's are Catholics, the whole "cremation" story seemed unusual to me.
Thank you so much, 💓 so very sad
GREAT SAD THANK'S FOR THIS VIDEO,,..
This incident hurt so much...
First of all, NO ONE EVER called John Kennedy Jr. "John -John" that came about when a reporter mistook when the President called is son, John to get his attention but when his son didn't respond , he called his son, to John again and the it was mistook as "John-John". I remember those days vividly. Very tough weekend . Gone too soon. R.I.P John Kennedy Jr.
At the time of this incident divers who dove to the wreck stated that the aircraft hit the water with such force that it disintegrated upon impact. I don’t see how these divers could mysteriously find the plane intact.
Fuselage intact, the wings, stabilizers, tail and wheels all came off
The report at theme said there were no parts bigger than a pie plate. I think they are not wanting to make people uncomfortable by thinking that those inside were also pretty much shredded.
Plane was upside down on sea floor
I live on the Vineyard and remember that night and day after when the search was going on-it was a nightmare
How I love to visit it as I'm a big fan of jaws best wishes from Durham England
@@Granto-ni9qw looking forward to your future visit ..sending greetings to beautiful Durham
@@TheVineyarder Hi hope you are well ,, think we Wil need a bigger boat ⛵????
As a private pilot myself, I only hope the same level of search is done for me if I suffered the same fate!
Absolutely - we'll fly my drone around until its battery dies
Yea right 😂
You really don't know how the world works, do you?
Don't count on it..
Doubt It😇
you have to be rich and powerful in order to get that kind of attention. The rest of us would have stayed on the bottom of the ocean
I remember like it was yesterday also. I still cry. It was so sad. That poor family.
Very briefly at 8th Ave and 34th street at about 0830 hrs. John and I both of us stop for the traffic light to change and greeted each other with a wanderful good morning and have a great day..( we were both on bicycles) he was so down to Earth , life taken to soon , my gut feelings he could have taken America to a better comparing to where TRASHY POLITICIANS takings America today' Hoping in death he felt no pains and his companions and had a smooth entrance in CREATOR'S kingdom.. R. I. P. J. K. ✌ ☮ always our brief meeting took place in N..Y. C..
mt Pearl nl
Neat story.
😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨y,known there will be a better life after our death...!
I remembered when this happened . It was so so sad , I cried 😢
Everyone remembers. It wasn't that long ago.
The picture of him submerged plane looks more like a piper warrior than a piper Saratoga.The Saratoga is much wider than the plane shown on the ocean floor.
Yes you're right. I created that underwater image using Photoshop. There's not many photos of sunken aircraft.
Prayers,to Caroline,years later. 2023. From MI.
❤❤❤❤❤💙💙💙heartbreaking for caroline indeed I,m in the same sad situation...and sometimes I wish that I was dead y.known!
the picture of the plane looks small to be a Saratoga. The wings are still in tact. The cockpit looks like a result of a fire?
RIP
John F. Kennedy Jr.
(1960-1999)
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
(1966-1999)
and
Lauren Bessette
(1964-1999)
John f Kennedy Jr. Our beloved prince. R.I.P.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😪😪😪
Thank you Vicky. We felt the same way
Yeah I doubt the real one looked Italian
The real one had Chestnut hair and and as a kid and teenager he had long and curly hair even in the 1988 photo as the Sexiest Man Alive. What changed how he go from chestnut curly long hair with a Tooth necklace. To looking like a Italian Jocky Grease Character with straight jet black Hair and differnt eye colors
We don’t have royalty.
He was most certainly not my prince ,that family was very far removed from royalty.
A tragedy for sure. But it was re comfortable to find their bodies, so the family could gather together and trow his ashes on the sea. A great effort from all the UN forces, to rescue what was left in the ocean after the fatal incident.
UN forces? I think you mean U.S.
Why take him out of the Ocean in the first place if you are going to turn around throw him back in that's a waste of money.
I used to deliver pkgs to the Kennedys.there were very. Nice people......RIP
Made a passionate speak, while later smiling when remarking how deeply his passing has affected his family. It’s disgusting, makes me think he knows mote
Rich mans trick, The SHEEP will believe anything.
What are you referring to?
Makes you wonder?!
Whut??
I believe he’s referring to Clinton.
Sometimes people feel like they're invincible.
That's very true. They get a rush by taking chances. Like those guys in wingsuits.