Was JFK Jr. drunk during plane crash, & did he nearly collide w/ commercial flight?
Articles in this week’s Star Magazine and the National Enquirer say a new e-book about JFK’s kids, American Legacy: The Story of John & Caroline Kennedy via C. David Heymann claims that JFK Jr. was taking narcotics for an ankle harm, and that those drugs coupled with the truth that he was ingesting on the evening he crashed his plane would have impaired his ability to fly.
It also incorporates the bombshell that Kennedy flew into the trail of an American Airlines flight before his plane crashed:
The e-book – which relies on eyewitness accounts and never-before launched govt paperwork – reveals that Kennedy strayed into the flight trail of American Airlines Flight 1484, wearing 128 passengers and 6 crew members, shortly earlier than his fatal crash.
Control tower body of workers could no longer touch Kennedy by means of radio, because he was no longer responding. At the last minute, the American flight swerved to avert a mid-air collision.
Heymann writes that Kennedy was taking Vicodin, a narcotic he have been prescribed for pain from surgical treatment on an ankle he broke while para-gliding on June 1, a month and a part before his deadly twist of fate.
At a provider station close to the airport before his flight, Kennedy was spotted by way of govt and pilot Roy Stoppard who noticed Kennedy was sporting an opened bottle of white wine.
[From The National Enquirer print version, July 9th, 2007]
The NTSB report concluded that Kennedy’s crash was the results of pilot error. Kennedy was stated to have misjudged the altitude as there were hazy conditions and not using a visible reference, overcorrected and sent his high-performance plane into a spin which more than likely knocked him subconscious.
Back when JFK Jr. crashed his plane I was relationship a guy who was taking non-public pilot lessons at Caldwell airport in NJ the place JFK Jr., his wife Caroline Bessette, and her sister Lauren activate on that fateful night.
Anyway I e-mailed him for his take in this tale, as I know he followed it carefully on the time and since he’s a pilot he has extra insight into it than I do.
Here’s how he explains the NTSB document:
When you fly in blackout prerequisites (darkish night, no moon, fog), you have absolutely no connection with the horizon with the exception of for your HSI (horizontal state of affairs indicator). Your inner ear measures acceleration, so should you, say, flip round to speak to your sister-in-law and then flip back front, that you must really feel just like the plane has changed perspective even when it hasn’t.
Something like that most certainly happened with JFK. He felt the plane was in an ascending turn or flying level when in point of fact he had put it right into a descending flip. At some point he saw the HSI and altimeter and, no longer understanding his descending turn had already gotten the plane just about its never-exceed speed (VNE), he overcorrected and “hammerheaded,” which almost certainly knocked him unconscious. At this level the plane stalled, rolled on its back, and headed directly into the Atlantic.
[E-mailed from my buddy DB]
In the Star Magazine article concerning the upcoming e book, it is said that writer Heymann claims that he had a secret autopsy performed on Kennedy’s stays and that they showed he had three times the felony limit of booze in his system. “His tissue and lungs had a very excessive stage of alcohol. I sent the report to toxicologists, who say he had thrice the criminal limit in his device!”
My friend DB points out that extra skilled pilots than JFK Jr. made up our minds not to fly that night because of low visibility. He can have been drunk, but there are lots of other factors that could explain his tragic plane crash.
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