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