John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Last Flight

On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. took off from New Jersey after sunset, bound for a family wedding at Hyannis Port, with his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren aboard. He never arrived. The son of a president had trained seriously and flown the route before, but he had never finished his instrument rating, and the last thirty miles of his route crossed open, unlit water. This episode traces the flight, the search, and why aviators still study the night the horizon vanished.Send me a text!Support the show