Idk if JFK Jr would have beaten Hillary or not, but I do know the plane crash wasn’t rigged. JFK Jr was not a very experienced or seasoned pilot. He had planned to fly to the Vineyard much earlier, when visibility would have been excellent. His wife and her sister were very late in getting to the airport. It was late on a hazy evening when he took off. If he had been skilled in flying by instruments he’d have been ok. But he flew by sight, and the conditions that evening were terrible for it. It was simply no time and place for an inexperienced pilot.
In the aftermath of the crash, one pilot after another commented on the situation. It’s entirely too easy to get one read from the *nonexistent horizon* and the opposite from the instrument panel. Even after the plane goes into a graveyard spiral—which is the natural consequence of a person’s inability to harmonize what he’s seeing in the hazy glare of the setting sun on the sea versus what his instruments are telling him—the unseasoned pilot is unaware of what’s happening. There is a total disorientation that takes place when visibility hits a certain level of ambiguity. JFK Jr probably didn’t fully grasp the impending disaster until the plane actually struck the water.
Hillary’s hit list is very long, but JFK JR is one person who’s not on it. He simply wasn’t qualified to fly under the conditions that prevailed that evening. It’s no more complicated than that.
I remember seeing Air Disasters one night, where they were talking about this crash. IIRC they said the plane had an autopilot.