JFK Jr.'s Final Flight | Mayday Air Disaster

With so much attention on Ryan Murphy’s new series about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the interview I did with John F. Kennedy Jr. in May of 1999 (the last television interview he did before he, Carolyn, and her sister Lauren died) is being rewatched, or watched for the first time, by so many people. I wrote about what it’s been like witnessing a new generation be introduced to this mesmerizing couple and how tragic their deaths were for all of us. You can read the piece on my Substack or at th

John F. Kennedy Jr. was an American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher, who died in a plane crash on July 16, 1999. Kennedy was flying his Piper Saratoga aircraft with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette from New Jersey to Massachusetts when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. All three occupants of the aircraft were killed in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the cause of the c