What happened to John F. Kennedy Jr?

Answer 1

John F. Kennedy, Jr. was killed in the crash of his private plan on July 16, 1999. Kennedy, his wife Carolyn, and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette were killed on a flight from Essex County Airport, NJ to Martha's Vineyard, MA. Kennedy was not qualified to fly a plane by 'instruments only'. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was pilot error, 'Kennedy's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation.' Kennedy's departure was delayed, he didn't file an appropriate flight plan, and the weather turned too hazy for visual navigation requiring a pilot to use instrument navigation. The wreckage and the bodies were located in the water off Martha's Vineyard five days later.

Answer 2

The secret mission on which he lost his life was described by a fellow officer after it was declassified:

"Joe, regarded as an experienced Patrol Plane Commander, and a fellow-officer, an expert in radio control projects, was to take a 'drone' Liberator bomber loaded with 21,170 pounds of high explosives into the air and to stay with it until two 'mother' planes had achieved complete radio control over the drone. They were then to bail out over England; the "drone," under the control of the mother planes, was to proceed on the mission which was to culminate in a crash-dive on the target, a V-2 rocket launching site in Normandy. The airplane ... was in flight with routine checking of the radio controls proceeding satisfactorily, when at 6:20 p.m. on August 12, 1944, two explosions blasted the drone resulting in the death of its two pilots. No final conclusions as to the cause of the explosions has ever been reached.

Answer 3

He died in a plane crash. See the related link for more details.

Answer 4

Yes. John F. Kennedy's son, John Jr. died in a plane wreck.