Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was 33 years old when she died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard on July 16, 1999. She was flying with her husband, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and her sister Lauren Bessette to a family wedding on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. According to a report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board in 2000, John F. Kennedy, Jr., the pilot, failed to maintain control during a descent over water at night, influenced by spatial disorientation because of haze and darkness.
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