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While it's possible that Kennedy's lack of experience may actually have worked in his favor, since his recent training would have freshly equipped him to deal with such emergencies, some of his other actions are open to question. Traveling from Fairfield to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., pilots follow one of two flight paths. The easier, safer route hugs the southern coast of Connecticut, keeping the plane within the comforting sight of land most of the time. The trickier one follows the line of Long Island, then sails out over water, passing only the relative lily pad of Block...
...give them a lift somewhere. But most of us don't need to go where he did--to a place where he could get away, off camera, out of the bubble, on his own. Most often he headed up to the house his mother had left him on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., a place so special, so private, the houses far back from the road, the beaches so peaceful. Until last Saturday afternoon, when the luggage, a woman's compact, a headrest, began washing up on that shore, turning a wedding day into a wake...
...Final Salute: Kennedy family members are joined by crewmen on the deck of the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe in a burial ceremony for John Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette off Martha's Vineyard on Thursday. Their ashes were committed to the sea about three miles from where the bodies were recovered Wednesday...
...place in the nation?s heart at the funeral of his own father was to be buried at sea Thursday, along with his wife and sister-in-law. The bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette were found Wednesday on the ocean floor off Martha?s Vineyard, four days after their small plane crashed on a Friday-night flight to the Massachusetts island. Following a request by the Kennedy family, which the Pentagon granted, the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe was dispatched to the area in anticipation of a burial at sea. The bodies were cremated...
Finally, the questions in the crash of John Kennedy Jr.'s plane may be closer to answers. On Wednesday morning the Associated Press reported that the wreckage of Kennedy's Piper Saratoga had been located, with Kennedy's body still aboard, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "They've got the fuselage and John Kennedy's in it," a high-level government source said. Still unknown: the locations of Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren -- and the cause of the crash. One possible clue: CNN reported late Tuesday that mechanics had discovered -? and corrected...