Never believe a conspiracy theory.
Unless you're in a Clinton's way.
Posted on 01/07/2019 5:25:36 PM PST by lowbridge
“The Last Days of JFK Jr.,” a two-hour special promising new details and new interviews under the ABC News banner, aired Thursday night. Not only did the program soft-pedal Kennedy’s complete and utter fault for the crash but it got crucial details wrong — claiming that the FAA said flying conditions that night were “excellent” (according to the National Transportation Safety Board review of the crash, they were extremely poor, and JFK Jr. would have known it), and that his flight instructor was unavailable that night to fly with him. In fact, the NTSB report said one of Kennedy’s instructors did offer to fly with him, but Kennedy said no, that “he wanted to do it alone.”
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Here’s what ABC didn’t report: The NTSB blamed JFK Jr. for the crash. He had less than an hour logged flying at night alone. Out of 310 hours logged, Kennedy had only 72 with a flight instructor, which, as The New York Times reported in July 2000, was considered “an unusually low number” by experts. The Times also reported that one pilot said that as he flew over Martha’s Vineyard that night, he thought the whole island had suffered a power outage, and that haze and visibility that night was as low as four miles. The Guardian reported that Kennedy’s certificate “forbade him to fly with visibility less than five miles.”
In the dark, with no horizon, Kennedy was unable to tell the sea from the land from the sky. He became confused: What the pilot may feel the plane is doing is actually different than what the instruments say, and he likely wound up in what’s called the graveyard spiral, plummeting 79 feet per second toward the ocean.
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anytime a clinton benefits I am immediately suspicious
He ****ed up big time...
Never underestimate the capability of a Kennedy doing something stupid and self destructive.
LOL it’s a tough call
The Smithsonian Channel’s ‘Air Disasters’ present the issues well.
All of a sudden ABC is bringing up lots of old gossip, as if everyone cared. Bobbit and Kenndys.
Why?
...cuz the current DNC lists of characters is like a carny sideshow
There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. Just no old, bold pilots.
There’s gotta be a reason, and probably nothing good.
This is the time they slip in the documentaries, like the one on the Clinton impeachment.
I guess the 90s are in vogue now: Democrats want to remember when Democrats had the White House, but Obama is too recent.
There's a nostalgia factor with the Clinton years (for Democrats, anyway).
Wow, what a good article!
All politics aside, Kennedy was a shi*ty pilot, period. I’m a licensed pilot and I would NEVER have tried that schtick without an instrument ticket.
He was arrogant, cocky and thought his wealth could get him out of anything. It killed him and two others.
This Sepia-toned hero worship is a complete farce. He’s dead through his own jncompetenc and avarice.
Never believe a conspiracy theory.
Unless you're in a Clinton's way.
Okay, but 310 hours is not chump change. I soloed under 50 and had my license well under 100. I was considered slow and overly cautious.
Didn’t believe his lying instruments.
Didn’t see the special, but the guy clearly caused his own death as welll as everyone else on that plane, by over estimating he abilities.
And not sure why they would lie about weather conditions.
Yes his death was tragic, mainly because it was completely preventable...
Unfortunately you can’t protect people from themselves.
The Kennedy’s should stay away from driving boats, airplanes and automobiles.
Skis
did the show the CNN anchors crying when Clinton was impeached. Bernie Shaw and Judy Woodruff.
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