What caused JFK Junior's plane to crash in 1999? Flying solo for the first time in weeks, JFK Jr. and his wife and sister-in-law are lost at sea only 30 minutes from their destination. | The Wonder Channel

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