7.28.99
Recipients--
This email from NewsHawk has AS AN ATTACHED FILE (and also as an in-line
quote within THIS email) the UPI article confirming JFK Jr. contacted
air traffic controller personnel at Martha's Vineyard Airport. The
attached file shows the article as it appeared on Virtual News/New
York's website until a little over a week ago.
This was forwarded to us with the attached file which has an EMBEDDED
URL LINK in it.
This embedded link in this forwarded email will AUTOMATICALLY (try to)
pull up the webpage at Virtual News -New York's website--as it existed
until 7.22.99 when for some reason the text was removed, leaving an
empty page at this URL.
IF you allow this embedded link to LOAD AUTOMATICALLY and access the
linked webpage, you will end up with a blank page: at least that is what
happened to us, as the page which HAD the article on Virtual News/New
York's website as of yesterday (7.22.99) is now BLANK.
HOWEVER, IF you open our email while you are OFFLINE, so that the URL
link CANNOT load automatically, you will in fact get a file of this
web page, intact, in the format in which it existed until 7.22.99--WITH
the UPI article intact.
At least that's how it worked for us. Hope it works for you. Otherwise
of course the entire text of the UPI article is reprinted verbatim
within the content of this email.
Here is the UPI article which states that JFK Jr. WAS IN CONTACT with
flight controllers at Martha's vineyard Airport at 9:39 Friday evening,
July 16. The UPI article ALSO states that both WCVB-TV in Boston AND ABC
News reported the same CRUCIAL information.
Additionally this radio contact by Kennedy has subsequently been
confirmed through direct contact with airport personnel.
This extremely significant information is what is now MISSING from EVERY
SINGLE account of the event now being spewed by mass media outlets BECAUSE
IT UTTERLY INVALIDATES THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT WE HAVE BEEN FORCE-FED AS TO
THE CAUSE OF JFK JR'S DEATH.
As I've stated time and again this crucial information PROVES that
seconds BEFORE Kennedy's plane went into a headlong dive there was not
the SLIGHTEST indication of the much-regurgitated garbage that pilot
error and/or mechanical malfunction (other than outright sabotage of a
critical component of the aircraft) were responsible for this headlong,
full-on nosedive to certain oblivion at rate of 100 feet per second--a
speed far exceeding that of any unassisted rate of descent which is
roughly 16 feet per second.
NEITHER such fictional pilot error NOR any standard mechanical
malfunction could POSSIBLY result in this craft dropping at such a rate.
Kennedy, a pilot with SEVENTEEN YEARS FLYING EXPERIENCE, was at that
moment engaged in no unusual or troublesome maneuvers. He had finished
his radio call only SECONDS BEFORE!
He knew EXACTLY where he was not only in relation to the coastline but
also to the airport--10 miles from the coast and 13 miles from the
airport.
What's more, we have received additional confirmation from residents of
the Connecticut shore and Martha's Vineyard that visibility was
EXCELLENT in the area at this time--from 10 to 12 miles at least. In
such conditions it's ludicrous to think the Kennedy would not been able
to have seen at LEAST the GLOW from the many lights in the
well-populated Martha's Vineyard area at the distance he was, and thus
have been thoroughly able to distinguish direction in all senses of the
word (altitude).
The ongoing disinformation about poor visibility being the reason such
an inexperienced pilot (which he was NOT!) would get completely
discombobulated and fly into the sea is completely unfounded in fact.
The guy was hardly hundreds of miles out over the middle of
the Atlantic. Why then would he decide to land in the sea if he knew
where he was in relation to the land? Please... spare me.
Here is the pertinent text from about halfway through the UPI article.
This is the TRUTH... BEFORE the spin-doctors and manipulators got to work.
"At 9:39 p.m. Friday, Kennedy radioed the airport and said he was 13
miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according to
WCVB-TV news in Boston. He reportedly said he was making his final approach.
"Moments later, radar operated by the Federal Aviation Administration
showed the plane went into a dive and dropped 1,200 feet in just 12
seconds, according to ABC News.
"In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told controllers
at the airport that he planned to drop off his wife's sister and then
take off again between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. for Hyannis Airport."
Other CRUCIAL information which has now been removed from all official
accounts is the fact that a NUMBER of witnesses on the beach at Martha's
Vineyard that evening INCLUDING a Vineyard Gazette reporter saw an
AIRBORNE explosion at this same time right in that area of the sky where
Kennedy was flying. I quote here the relevant text from the UPI article.
"A reporter for the Vineyard Gazette newspaper told WCVB-TV in Boston
that he was out walking Friday night about the time of the crash and saw
"big white flash in the sky" off Philbin Beach."
A report from about 3 PM on Saturday by Shephard Smith of FOX-TV named
another one of these witnesses--in fact a guest at the scheduled wedding
JFK. Jr. was due to attend AND a friend of Smith's producer at Fox.
Every single flight instructor Kennedy ever had as well as other
first-hand witnesses describe Kennedy as an extremely cautious and
safety minded pilot. He also had HUNDREDS of hours of experience, NOT
one hundred.
For example here's a quote from a CNN article in which a FEDERAL PILOT
EXAMINER who TESTED Kennedy's flying skills describes his abilities.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/18/BC-CRASH-KENNEDY-LICENSE.reut/index.html
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) --
A federal pilot examiner who tested John F. Kennedy Jr.'s flying skills
said he was an "excellent pilot," a newspaper reported Sunday....
..."He was an excellent pilot," John McColgan of Vero Beach, Florida,
told the Orlando Sentinel. "I put him through the paces, and HE PASSED
EVERYTHING WITH FLYING COLORS."...
...He said Kennedy had a lot of flight experience for someone with a
pilot's license for 15 months...
"He flew a lot," McColgan said. "In fact, by now he probably has ENOUGH
HOURS TO BE A COMMERCIAL PILOT...."
© 1999 CNN
I rest my case. JFK Jr. WAS KILLED.
John Quinn/NewsHawk
============================
Hopes fade for missing Kennedy plane
Sunday, 18 July 1999 2:08 (GMT)
(NOTE: federal investigators dispatched)
(UPI Focus)
Hopes fade for missing Kennedy plane
AQUINNAH, Mass., July 17 (UPI) - After a daylong unsuccessful search
for a missing single-engine plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., the
National Transportation Safety Board is launching an investigation into
the aircraft's disappearance.
An official statement tonight says an NTSB team has been dispatched
to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts as the Coast Guard continues to
coordinate "aggressive search-and-rescue activities."
As daylight faded, Air Force helicopters returned to Otis Air Force
Base, to resume the search Sunday morning.
Hopes faded today as bits of debris from the Piper Saratoga were
recovered and a piece of luggage was positively identified as belonging
to Lauren Bessette, Kennedy's sister-in-law. Kennedy's wife,
33-year-old Carolyn Bessette, was also traveling with him.
The luggage, along with what appeared to be an airplane tire, washed
up on Philbin Beach on Martha's Vineyard, and Lauren Bessette's name
was on the tag of a black suitcase, said First District Coast Guard
spokesman Lt. Gary Jones.
Jones said other debris - a head rest and carpeting that appeared to
be from the plane - were found this afternoon floating in the water
about 100 yards from nearby Gay Head Beach.
Kennedy and the Bessette sisters were traveling from Caldwell, New
Jersey, to Hyannis Port for the wedding of Mark Bailey and Rory
Kennedy, the last unmarried daughter of Ethel Kennedy and the late Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The event was postponed, and what should have been a joyous
gathering of the clan turned into a grim vigil as members of the Kennedy
family waited anxiously at their storied oceanfront compound for word on
the fate of the three.
An outdoor family mass was held, presided over by three Roman
Catholic priests, as Mrs. Kennedy, other family members and around 275
guests gathered to pray.
Among those present were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., former
U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, Rory's older brother and JFK Jr.'s cousin, and
U.S. Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who is married to Kerry Kennedy.
John Kennedy's older sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, was away
on a rafting trip and had not planned to attend the wedding.
Sen. Kennedy's son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., was also away in
California and immediately flew back to Boston, according to media
reports.
Family spokesman Brian O'Connor said the family was initially
hopeful that the three would be found alive.
But he said the mood at the compound turned somber when debris,
apparently from the plane, began washing up on the western end of
Martha's Vineyard.
There was no immediate comment from any of the family members.
Before the effort was scaled back at sunset, Rear Adm. Richard M.
Larrabee told journalists the Coast Guard was still in a search-and-
rescue mode. But the dispatch of federal investigators suggests
authorities are now presuming the plane has crashed.
Coast Guard cutters equipped with high-powered lights will continue
to search the sea south of Martha's Vineyard throughout the night.
Earlier in the day, the Civil Air Patrol withdrew from the search 15
aircraft that were combing a 15-by-15-mile grid from Long Island to
Martha's Vineyard after debris and luggage washed ashore on Philbin
Beach.
Jones said the Coast Guard was notified about the missing plane at
around 3 a.m. EDT, and the search started immediately.
About 15 Coast Guard and Air Force aircraft and some 150 personnel
joined in the search.
Kennedy, a licensed private pilot, was expected to arrive at
Martha's Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts in his Piper Saratoga II TC
sometime before 10 p.m. Friday.
At 9:39 p.m. Friday, Kennedy radioed the airport and said he was 13
miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according to
WCVB-TV news in Boston. He reportedly said he was making his final approach.
Moments later, radar operated by the Federal Aviation Administration
showed the plane went into a dive and dropped 1,200 feet in just 12
seconds, according to ABC News.
In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told controllers
at the airport that he planned to drop off his wife's sister and then
take off again between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. for Hyannis Airport.
Kennedy's family then called Hyannis Airport - around 2:15 a.m.,
reports say - when he failed to arrive. The airport then checked with
the Martha's Vineyard airport, and the search began.
The plane took off from Essex County Airport in Caldwell, N.J., at
8:38 p.m. Friday and lost contact with the FAA on its final approach to
Martha's Vineyard, Mass., said Coast Guard spokesman Steve Carleton.
An emergency beacon thought to belong to the plane was activated and
heard by the Coast Guard in Long Island, N.Y., at 3:40 a.m. But as the
search went on, authorities seemed to discount the relevance of the
beacon signal.
Kurt Hartman, spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's district
headquarters in New Haven, Conn., said this morning, "We received a
call from our district office in Boston directing us to conduct a
shoreline search off Horton Point, in Long Island Sound, for an
emergency locating transmitting beacon."
But by 10:30 a.m., the Coast Guard was no longer receiving a signal
from the emergency beacon that was believed to be on Kennedy's small
plane.
Petty Officer Virginia Adams in Boston confirmed to United Press
International that the Coast Guard lost the signal Saturday morning.
Adams also confirmed that Kennedy was piloting the plane, and that his
wife and sister-in-law were aboard.
Jamie Gaspar, spokesman for Martha's Vineyard Airport, told UPI that
"someone was at the airport to pick up the passengers on the plane, but
it never arrived."
A reporter for the Vineyard Gazette newspaper told WCVB-TV in Boston
that he was out walking Friday night about the time of the crash and
saw "big white flash in the sky" off Philbin Beach.
Kennedy did not file a flight plan, leading some to first suspect he
altered his route. But by 9 a.m., his arrival at Martha's Vineyard was
more than 12 hours late, and the Kennedy family postponed the wedding
he was traveling to attend.
The Air Force and Air National Guard mounted a massive air search
using helicopters, Falcon jets and a TC-130 aircraft over a 1,000-
square-mile search area that eventually concentrated on Martha's
Vineyard.
The ongoing Coast Guard search involves a 47-foot utility boat, two
41-foot utility boats and an 87-foot patrol boat, as well as two Coast
Guard helicopters.
Expected to join the search late tonight was a special ship from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration equipped with sonar to
conduct underwater searches.
A special infrared-equipped helicopter was also set to join the
nighttime search. Its temperature-sensitive equipment is capable of
detecting a person in the water.
Kennedy Jr. - the only son of President John F. Kennedy and
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
- has worked as an assistant district attorney and is currently the
editor of the political magazine George. Kennedy, 38, married Carolyn
Bessette during a secretive ceremony in 1996.
WCVB-TV says Kennedy got his pilot's license last year after
undergoing training at Flight Safety International, a respected pilots'
school in Florida. He was licensed to fly visually, but not by using
instruments alone. Visibility at the time was reported to be 8 miles,
clear enough to fly without instruments.
The Piper Aircraft Co. says the six-passenger plane Kennedy was
flying was built in 1995. WCVB-TV says Kennedy bought it in April of
this year.
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta telephoned President Clinton
this morning at Camp David with news of the missing plane. Clinton and
Kennedy have met often.
In a statement issued from Camp David, where he is spending the
weekend, Clinton said, "All our prayers and thoughts are with the
families of those on board." The president has asked to be kept
informed about the search effort.
Kennedy is a native of Washington. He was born on Nov. 25, 1960,
just two months before his father was inaugurated as president.
--
Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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Recipients--
Here is the UPI article which states that JFK Jr. WAS IN CONTACT with
flight controllers at Martha's vineyard Airport at 9:39 Friday evening,
July 16. The UPI article ALSO states that both WCVB-TV in Boston AND ABC
News reported the same CRUCIAL information.
Additionally this radio contact by Kennedy has subsequently been
confirmed through direct contact with airport personnel.
This extremely significant information is what is now MISSING from EVERY
SINGLE account of the event now being spewed by the robots in gutless,
miserable cloned mass media outlets.
THIS CRUCIAL INFORMATION HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PUBLIC RECORD BECAUSE
IT UTTERLY INVALIDATES THE OFFICIAL BULLSHIT WE ARE BEEN FORCE-FED ABOUT
THE CAUSE OF JFK JR'S DEATH!
As I've stated time and again this crucial information PROVES that
seconds BEFORE Kennedy's plane went into a headlong dive there was not
the SLIGHTEST indication of the much-regurgitated garbage that pilot
error and/or mechanical malfunction (other than outright sabotage of a
critical component of the aircraft) were responsible for this headlong,
full-on nosedive to certain oblivion.=20
NEITHER such fictional pilot error NOR any standard mechanical
malfunction could POSSIBLY result in this craft dropping like a rock.
Kennedy was at that moment engaged in no unusual or troublesome
maneuvers. He had only SECOND BEFORE FINISHED HIS RADIO CALL!=20
He knew EXACTLY where he was not only in relation to the coastline but
also to the airport--10 miles from the coast and 13 miles from the
airport.=20
What's more, we have received additional confirmation from residents of
the Connecticut shore and Martha's Vineyard that visibility was
EXCELLENT in the area at this time--from 10 to 12 miles at least. In
such conditions it's ludicrous to think the Kennedy would not been able
to have seen at LEAST the GLOW from the many lights in the
well-populated Martha's Vineyard area at the distance he was, and thus
have been thoroughly able to distinguish direction in all senses of the
word (altitude).
The ongoing disinformation about poor visibility being the reason such
an inexperienced pilot (which he was NOT!) would get completely
discombobulated and fly into the sea is completely unfounded in fact.
The guy was hardly hundreds of miles out over the middle of
the Atlantic. Why then would he decide to land in the sea if he knew
where he was in relation to the land? Please... spare me.
Here is the pertinent text from about halfway through the UPI article.
This is the TRUTH... BEFORE the spin-doctors and manipulators got to work.
"At 9:39 p.m. Friday, Kennedy radioed the airport and said he was 13
miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according to
WCVB-TV news in Boston. He reportedly said he was making his final approa=
ch.
"Moments later, radar operated by the Federal Aviation Administration
showed the plane went into a dive and dropped 1,200 feet in just 12
seconds, according to ABC News.
"In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told controllers
at the airport that he planned to drop off his wife's sister and then
take off again between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. for Hyannis Airport."
Other CRUCIAL information which has now been removed from all official
accounts is the fact that a NUMBER of witnesses on the beach at Martha's
Vineyard that evening INCLUDING a Vineyard Gazette reporter saw an
AIRBORNE explosion at this same time right in that area of the sky where
Kennedy was flying. I quote here the relevant text from the UPI article.
"A reporter for the Vineyard Gazette newspaper told WCVB-TV in Boston
that he was out walking Friday night about the time of the crash and saw
"big white flash in the sky" off Philbin Beach."
A report from about 3 PM on Saturday by Shephard Smith of FOX-TV named
another one of these witnesses--in fact a guest at the scheduled wedding
JFK. Jr. was due to attend AND a friend of Smith's producer at Fox.=20
Every single flight instructor Kennedy ever had as well as other
first-hand witnesses describe Kennedy as an extremely cautious and
safety minded pilot. He also had HUNDREDS of hours of experience, NOT
one hundred.=20
For example here's a quote from a CNN article in which a FEDERAL PILOT
EXAMINER who TESTED Kennedy's flying skills describes his abilities.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/18/BC-CRASH-KENNEDY-LICENSE.reut/index.html
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) --
A federal pilot examiner who tested John F. Kennedy Jr.'s flying skills
said he was an "excellent pilot," a newspaper reported Sunday....
..."He was an excellent pilot," John McColgan of Vero Beach, Florida,
told the Orlando Sentinel. "I put him through the paces, and HE PASSED
EVERYTHING WITH FLYING COLORS."...
...He said Kennedy had a lot of flight experience for someone with a
pilot's license for 15 months...
"He flew a lot," McColgan said. "In fact, by now he probably has ENOUGH
HOURS TO BE A COMMERCIAL PILOT...."
=A9 1999 CNN
I rest my case. JFK Jr. WAS KILLED.
John Quinn/NewsHawk
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Hopes fade for missing Kennedy plane
Sunday, 18 July 1999 2:08 (GMT)
(NOTE: federal investigators dispatched)
(UPI Focus)
Hopes fade for missing Kennedy plane
AQUINNAH, Mass., July 17 (UPI) - After a daylong unsuccessful search
for a missing single-engine plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., the
National Transportation Safety Board is launching an investigation into
the aircraft's disappearance.
An official statement tonight says an NTSB team has been dispatched
to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts as the Coast Guard continues to
coordinate "aggressive search-and-rescue activities."
As daylight faded, Air Force helicopters returned to Otis Air Force
Base, to resume the search Sunday morning.
Hopes faded today as bits of debris from the Piper Saratoga were
recovered and a piece of luggage was positively identified as belonging
to Lauren Bessette, Kennedy's sister-in-law. Kennedy's wife,
33-year-old Carolyn Bessette, was also traveling with him.
The luggage, along with what appeared to be an airplane tire, washed
up on Philbin Beach on Martha's Vineyard, and Lauren Bessette's name
was on the tag of a black suitcase, said First District Coast Guard
spokesman Lt. Gary Jones.
Jones said other debris - a head rest and carpeting that appeared to
be from the plane - were found this afternoon floating in the water
about 100 yards from nearby Gay Head Beach.
Kennedy and the Bessette sisters were traveling from Caldwell, New
Jersey, to Hyannis Port for the wedding of Mark Bailey and Rory
Kennedy, the last unmarried daughter of Ethel Kennedy and the late Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The event was postponed, and what should have been a joyous
gathering of the clan turned into a grim vigil as members of the Kennedy
family waited anxiously at their storied oceanfront compound for word on
the fate of the three.
An outdoor family mass was held, presided over by three Roman
Catholic priests, as Mrs. Kennedy, other family members and around 275
guests gathered to pray.
Among those present were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., former
U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, Rory's older brother and JFK Jr.'s cousin, and
U.S. Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who is married to Kerry Kennedy.
John Kennedy's older sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, was away
on a rafting trip and had not planned to attend the wedding.
Sen. Kennedy's son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., was also away in
California and immediately flew back to Boston, according to media
reports.
Family spokesman Brian O'Connor said the family was initially
hopeful that the three would be found alive.
But he said the mood at the compound turned somber when debris,
apparently from the plane, began washing up on the western end of
Martha's Vineyard.
There was no immediate comment from any of the family members.
Before the effort was scaled back at sunset, Rear Adm. Richard M.
Larrabee told journalists the Coast Guard was still in a search-and-
rescue mode. But the dispatch of federal investigators suggests
authorities are now presuming the plane has crashed.
Coast Guard cutters equipped with high-powered lights will continue
to search the sea south of Martha's Vineyard throughout the night.
Earlier in the day, the Civil Air Patrol withdrew from the search 15
aircraft that were combing a 15-by-15-mile grid from Long Island to
Martha's Vineyard after debris and luggage washed ashore on Philbin
Beach.
Jones said the Coast Guard was notified about the missing plane at
around 3 a.m. EDT, and the search started immediately.
About 15 Coast Guard and Air Force aircraft and some 150 personnel
joined in the search.
Kennedy, a licensed private pilot, was expected to arrive at
Martha's Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts in his Piper Saratoga II TC
sometime before 10 p.m. Friday.
At 9:39 p.m. Friday, Kennedy radioed the airport and said he was 13
miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according to
WCVB-TV news in Boston. He reportedly said he was making his final approa=
ch.
Moments later, radar operated by the Federal Aviation Administration
showed the plane went into a dive and dropped 1,200 feet in just 12
seconds, according to ABC News.
In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told controllers
at the airport that he planned to drop off his wife's sister and then
take off again between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. for Hyannis Airport.
Kennedy's family then called Hyannis Airport - around 2:15 a.m.,
reports say - when he failed to arrive. The airport then checked with
the Martha's Vineyard airport, and the search began.
The plane took off from Essex County Airport in Caldwell, N.J., at
8:38 p.m. Friday and lost contact with the FAA on its final approach to
Martha's Vineyard, Mass., said Coast Guard spokesman Steve Carleton.
An emergency beacon thought to belong to the plane was activated and
heard by the Coast Guard in Long Island, N.Y., at 3:40 a.m. But as the
search went on, authorities seemed to discount the relevance of the
beacon signal.
Kurt Hartman, spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's district
headquarters in New Haven, Conn., said this morning, "We received a
call from our district office in Boston directing us to conduct a
shoreline search off Horton Point, in Long Island Sound, for an
emergency locating transmitting beacon."
But by 10:30 a.m., the Coast Guard was no longer receiving a signal
from the emergency beacon that was believed to be on Kennedy's small
plane.
Petty Officer Virginia Adams in Boston confirmed to United Press
International that the Coast Guard lost the signal Saturday morning.
Adams also confirmed that Kennedy was piloting the plane, and that his
wife and sister-in-law were aboard.
Jamie Gaspar, spokesman for Martha's Vineyard Airport, told UPI that
"someone was at the airport to pick up the passengers on the plane, but
it never arrived."
A reporter for the Vineyard Gazette newspaper told WCVB-TV in Boston
that he was out walking Friday night about the time of the crash and
saw "big white flash in the sky" off Philbin Beach.
Kennedy did not file a flight plan, leading some to first suspect he
altered his route. But by 9 a.m., his arrival at Martha's Vineyard was
more than 12 hours late, and the Kennedy family postponed the wedding
he was traveling to attend.
The Air Force and Air National Guard mounted a massive air search
using helicopters, Falcon jets and a TC-130 aircraft over a 1,000-
square-mile search area that eventually concentrated on Martha's
Vineyard.
The ongoing Coast Guard search involves a 47-foot utility boat, two
41-foot utility boats and an 87-foot patrol boat, as well as two Coast
Guard helicopters.
Expected to join the search late tonight was a special ship from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration equipped with sonar to
conduct underwater searches.
A special infrared-equipped helicopter was also set to join the
nighttime search. Its temperature-sensitive equipment is capable of
detecting a person in the water.
Kennedy Jr. - the only son of President John F. Kennedy and
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
- has worked as an assistant district attorney and is currently the
editor of the political magazine George. Kennedy, 38, married Carolyn
Bessette during a secretive ceremony in 1996.
WCVB-TV says Kennedy got his pilot's license last year after
undergoing training at Flight Safety International, a respected pilots'
school in Florida. He was licensed to fly visually, but not by using
instruments alone. Visibility at the time was reported to be 8 miles,
clear enough to fly without instruments.
The Piper Aircraft Co. says the six-passenger plane Kennedy was
flying was built in 1995. WCVB-TV says Kennedy bought it in April of
this year.
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta telephoned President Clinton
this morning at Camp David with news of the missing plane. Clinton and
Kennedy have met often.
In a statement issued from Camp David, where he is spending the
weekend, Clinton said, "All our prayers and thoughts are with the
families of those on board." The president has asked to be kept
informed about the search effort.
Kennedy is a native of Washington. He was born on Nov. 25, 1960,
just two months before his father was inaugurated as president.
--
Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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_"..13 miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according
toWCVB-TV news in Boston. He reportedly said he was *MAKING HIS FINAL
APPROACH. ... In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told
controllers at the airport taht he planned to drop off his wife's sister
and then take off again ... Jamie Gaspar, spokesman for Martha's
Vineyear Airport, told UPI that 'someone was at the airport to pick up
the passengers on the plane, but it never arrived.'
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<td><font face="arial" size="2"><b>Sunday, 18 July 1999 2:08
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<FONT face="arial"><PRE>(NOTE: federal investigators dispatched)
(UPI Focus)
Hopes fade for missing Kennedy plane
AQUINNAH, Mass., July 17 (UPI) - After a daylong unsuccessful search
for a missing single-engine plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., the
National Transportation Safety Board is launching an investigation into
the aircraft's disappearance.
An official statement tonight says an NTSB team has been dispatched
to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts as the Coast Guard continues to
coordinate "aggressive search-and-rescue activities."
As daylight faded, Air Force helicopters returned to Otis Air Force
Base, to resume the search Sunday morning.
Hopes faded today as bits of debris from the Piper Saratoga were
recovered and a piece of luggage was positively identified as belonging
to Lauren Bessette, Kennedy's sister-in-law. Kennedy's wife, 33-year-old
Carolyn Bessette, was also traveling with him.
The luggage, along with what appeared to be an airplane tire, washed
up on Philbin Beach on Martha's Vineyard, and Lauren Bessette's name was
on the tag of a black suitcase, said First District Coast Guard
spokesman Lt. Gary Jones.
Jones said other debris - a head rest and carpeting that appeared to
be from the plane - were found this afternoon floating in the water
about 100 yards from nearby Gay Head Beach.
Kennedy and the Bessette sisters were traveling from Caldwell, New
Jersey, to Hyannis Port for the wedding of Mark Bailey and Rory Kennedy,
the last unmarried daughter of Ethel Kennedy and the late Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
The event was postponed, and what should have been a joyous gathering
of the clan turned into a grim vigil as members of the Kennedy family
waited anxiously at their storied oceanfront compound for word on the
fate of the three.
An outdoor family mass was held, presided over by three Roman
Catholic priests, as Mrs. Kennedy, other family members and around 275
guests gathered to pray.
Among those present were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., former U.S.
Rep. Joseph Kennedy, Rory's older brother and JFK Jr.'s cousin, and U.S.
Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who is married to Kerry Kennedy.
John Kennedy's older sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, was away
on a rafting trip and had not planned to attend the wedding.
Sen. Kennedy's son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., was also away in
California and immediately flew back to Boston, according to media
reports.
Family spokesman Brian O'Connor said the family was initially hopeful
that the three would be found alive.
But he said the mood at the compound turned somber when debris,
apparently from the plane, began washing up on the western end of
Martha's Vineyard.
There was no immediate comment from any of the family members.
Before the effort was scaled back at sunset, Rear Adm. Richard M.
Larrabee told journalists the Coast Guard was still in a search-and-
rescue mode. But the dispatch of federal investigators suggests
authorities are now presuming the plane has crashed.
Coast Guard cutters equipped with high-powered lights will continue
to search the sea south of Martha's Vineyard throughout the night.
Earlier in the day, the Civil Air Patrol withdrew from the search 15
aircraft that were combing a 15-by-15-mile grid from Long Island to
Martha's Vineyard after debris and luggage washed ashore on Philbin
Beach.
Jones said the Coast Guard was notified about the missing plane at
around 3 a.m. EDT, and the search started immediately.
About 15 Coast Guard and Air Force aircraft and some 150 personnel
joined in the search.
Kennedy, a licensed private pilot, was expected to arrive at Martha's
Vineyard Airport in Massachusetts in his Piper Saratoga II TC sometime
before 10 p.m. Friday.
At 9:39 p.m. Friday, Kennedy radioed the airport and said he was 13
miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according to WCVB-TV
news in Boston. He reportedly said he was making his final approach.
Moments later, radar operated by the Federal Aviation Administration
showed the plane went into a dive and dropped 1,200 feet in just 12
seconds, according to ABC News.
In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told controllers
at the airport that he planned to drop off his wife's sister and then
take off again between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. for Hyannis Airport.
Kennedy's family then called Hyannis Airport - around 2:15 a.m.,
reports say - when he failed to arrive. The airport then checked with
the Martha's Vineyard airport, and the search began.
The plane took off from Essex County Airport in Caldwell, N.J., at
8:38 p.m. Friday and lost contact with the FAA on its final approach to
Martha's Vineyard, Mass., said Coast Guard spokesman Steve Carleton.
An emergency beacon thought to belong to the plane was activated and
heard by the Coast Guard in Long Island, N.Y., at 3:40 a.m. But as the
search went on, authorities seemed to discount the relevance of the
beacon signal.
Kurt Hartman, spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's district
headquarters in New Haven, Conn., said this morning, "We received a
call from our district office in Boston directing us to conduct a
shoreline search off Horton Point, in Long Island Sound, for an
emergency locating transmitting beacon."
But by 10:30 a.m., the Coast Guard was no longer receiving a signal
from the emergency beacon that was believed to be on Kennedy's small
plane.
Petty Officer Virginia Adams in Boston confirmed to United Press
International that the Coast Guard lost the signal Saturday morning.
Adams also confirmed that Kennedy was piloting the plane, and that his
wife and sister-in-law were aboard.
Jamie Gaspar, spokesman for Martha's Vineyard Airport, told UPI that
"someone was at the airport to pick up the passengers on the plane, but
it never arrived."
A reporter for the Vineyard Gazette newspaper told WCVB-TV in Boston
that he was out walking Friday night about the time of the crash and saw
"big white flash in the sky" off Philbin Beach.
Kennedy did not file a flight plan, leading some to first suspect he
altered his route. But by 9 a.m., his arrival at Martha's Vineyard was
more than 12 hours late, and the Kennedy family postponed the wedding he
was traveling to attend.
The Air Force and Air National Guard mounted a massive air search
using helicopters, Falcon jets and a TC-130 aircraft over a 1,000-
square-mile search area that eventually concentrated on Martha's
Vineyard.
The ongoing Coast Guard search involves a 47-foot utility boat, two
41-foot utility boats and an 87-foot patrol boat, as well as two Coast
Guard helicopters.
Expected to join the search late tonight was a special ship from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration equipped with sonar to
conduct underwater searches.
A special infrared-equipped helicopter was also set to join the
nighttime search. Its temperature-sensitive equipment is capable of
detecting a person in the water.
Kennedy Jr. - the only son of President John F. Kennedy and
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
- has worked as an assistant district attorney and is currently the
editor of the political magazine George. Kennedy, 38, married Carolyn
Bessette during a secretive ceremony in 1996.
WCVB-TV says Kennedy got his pilot's license last year after
undergoing training at Flight Safety International, a respected pilots'
school in Florida. He was licensed to fly visually, but not by using
instruments alone. Visibility at the time was reported to be 8 miles,
clear enough to fly without instruments.
The Piper Aircraft Co. says the six-passenger plane Kennedy was
flying was built in 1995. WCVB-TV says Kennedy bought it in April of
this year.
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta telephoned President Clinton
this morning at Camp David with news of the missing plane. Clinton and
Kennedy have met often.
In a statement issued from Camp David, where he is spending the
weekend, Clinton said, "All our prayers and thoughts are with the
families of those on board." The president has asked to be kept
informed about the search effort.
Kennedy is a native of Washington. He was born on Nov. 25, 1960, just
two months before his father was inaugurated as president.
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Copyright 1999 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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Copyright 1999 by United Press International
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