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...absolute worst conditions: medicines, a small supply of food, purified water and a last minute addition--the "wedding ring" to feign I was married and not an eligible, single, foreigner. I was sufficiently scared by my friends' skeptical glances and explicit State Department warnings. On June 15, in Logan Airport, all I essentially knew about my plans for the following six weeks was that I was going to do thesis fieldwork in a small city called Comitan, in Chiapas, Mexico. The details of how I was going to reach Comitan, what exactly I was researching, and most importantly, what...
...disregard for a few basic rules of aviation safety. A licensed pilot for only a year, he nonetheless took off without filing a flight plan--something the Federal Aviation Administration does not require but that many pilots do take a moment to do. He took off from Essex County Airport in Fairfield, N.J., at sunset and thus flew most of his route in darkness, even though it's not certain he was rated for the tricky instrument piloting that allows seasoned aviators to fly essentially blind. Worst of all, he was flying a muscled-up, high-performance airplane that requires...
...picked up Kennedy's plane at 2,200 ft. and then, just 12 seconds later, at 1,300 ft., meaning it was plunging toward the water at 4,500 ft. per minute. "I would consider that out of control," says Alan Leiwant, a professional pilot who frequently uses Essex Airport...
John Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren, a New York City investment banker, arrived in separate cars at New Jersey's Essex County Airport. John had told friends the day before that he was flying straight to Hyannis; the decision to stop in Martha's Vineyard to drop Lauren off may have come at the last minute. But the weather was clear, and the FAA does not require pilots to file a flight plan when visual flight rules are in place...
Evidence is mounting, meanwhile, that pilot disorientation may have been the cause of the fatal crash. Radar data released by the NTSB Tuesday shows that Kennedy turned out of his descent 20 miles from the airport and climbed back to 2,600 feet, leveling off briefly before making a second turn to the right and starting a precipitous plunge that may have exceeded 5,000 feet per minute, 10 times the normal speed. "A pilot not rated to fly by instruments can very easily lose his orientation when the horizon disappears in the darkness and the haze," says TIME aviation...