World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-18

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[0:00] News 2

[0:02] >> on World News Tonight this Sunday. It is

[0:05] still being called a search and rescue

[0:08] mission, but tonight there is little

[0:10] hope that John F. Kennedy Jr. is alive.

[0:13] >> We hope the families of these three fine

[0:16] young people

[0:17] will feel the strength of God,

[0:20] the love of their friends,

[0:23] and the prayers of their fellow

[0:24] citizens. The crash that shattered his

[0:27] plane is presumed to have killed

[0:29] Kennedy, his wife, and his

[0:31] sister-in-law. Across the nation, the

[0:34] grieving has begun.

[0:38] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight,

[0:43] Sunday.

[0:45] >> Good evening. I'm Carol Simpson.

[0:47] Tonight, hope has turned to grief as

[0:50] John Kennedy Jr. is presumed dead. You

[0:53] are looking at a live shot outside the

[0:55] New York City apartment where Kennedy

[0:57] and his wife lived. An informal memorial

[1:00] has emerged, much like the one outside

[1:03] Kensington Palace after Princess Diana's

[1:06] death. A somber scene here in Manhattan

[1:08] at the end of a second day of intense

[1:11] searching. Tonight, the Coast Guard says

[1:13] it has picked up an emergency radio

[1:15] signal in the waters off Martha's

[1:17] Vineyard where debris from John

[1:19] Kennedy's plane has been found. But

[1:22] officials cautioned that the signal was

[1:24] just one transmission and may be

[1:26] unrelated to the crash. We begin our

[1:29] coverage with ABC's Lisa Stark.

[1:33] Investigators are now beginning their

[1:35] work to try to determine why the plane

[1:37] crashed and have had a chance to take

[1:39] their first look at radar data. They say

[1:42] their preliminary analysis shows the

[1:44] plane descending at 1,400 ft a minute

[1:47] before it disappeared off radar. Pilots

[1:50] say that is an aggressive descent, but

[1:53] within the plane's capability. The

[1:55] chairman of the National Transportation

[1:57] Safety Board said it is far too early to

[1:59] draw any conclusions.

[2:01] >> At this point, we do not know.

[2:05] We will not know for some time.

[2:09] There is even a possibility we will

[2:11] never know.

[2:12] >> As searchers fanned out over the ocean

[2:14] and on the beach for a second full day,

[2:16] there was nothing but grim news.

[2:18] Officially, Coast Guard search teams are

[2:20] still looking for survivors, but they

[2:22] admit in 68° ocean temperatures like

[2:25] these, people in the water cannot

[2:28] survive more than 12 hours. And

[2:30] officials do not believe there were any

[2:32] life rafts or life vests on board JFK

[2:35] Jr.'s plane, as is common with many

[2:37] small aircraft. A few additional pieces

[2:40] of debris were recovered today, some

[2:42] found by local sheriff's deputies along

[2:45] the shoreline on the western part of the

[2:47] island. We found piece a number of

[2:49] pieces of uh foam insulation. This

[2:52] insulation would be consistent with uh

[2:55] what would surround the cabin of an

[2:56] aircraft.

[2:57] >> This was the same area yesterday where a

[3:00] suitcase and luggage tag belonging to

[3:02] Lauren Bet JFK Jr.'s sister-in-law were

[3:05] found as well as a wheel from the Piper

[3:07] Saratoga.

[3:09] The Coast Guard is now concentrating its

[3:11] search in the waters south and southwest

[3:13] of the vineyard from the shoreline about

[3:15] 20 m out. Also on scene, the Rudy, a

[3:19] vessel with sophisticated sonar

[3:20] technology that can search for objects

[3:23] on the ocean floor.

[3:24] >> Man-made objects uh normally have very

[3:26] defined sharp edges. And uh in nature,

[3:29] you it's very rare that you find

[3:31] geological formations or rocks and and

[3:33] things on the seafloor that have exact

[3:35] square straight edges. But the Rudy's

[3:37] ability to pick out debris has been

[3:39] hampered somewhat by the rocky ocean

[3:41] bottom. A team of six divers is on

[3:44] standby, ready to recover any underwater

[3:47] debris. And the Coast Guard says for now

[3:50] it will continue its search and rescue

[3:53] efforts as it has promised the Kennedy

[3:56] family that it would. But the Coast

[3:57] Guard has indicated that later tonight

[3:59] it will reassess the direction of its

[4:01] efforts and indication that it may stop

[4:04] any rescue mission. Carol, Lisa, thank

[4:08] you. Lisa Stark reporting from Otis Air

[4:10] Force Base on Cape Cod. The search and

[4:13] rescue mission widened today, stretching

[4:15] to an island called No Man's Land. ABC's

[4:19] John Miller was out on the waters today

[4:21] with investigators.

[4:24] >> This morning, a Massachusetts State

[4:26] Police Boston whaler came out of MMA

[4:28] Harbor headed for no man's land. Because

[4:31] of wind and tides, officials in charge

[4:33] of the search believe debris could have

[4:34] washed up there. No Man's Land is a

[4:37] barren island 3 and a half miles south

[4:39] of Martha's Vineyard. Now a nature

[4:41] preserve, it was once used for target

[4:43] practice by Navy warships.

[4:45] >> It's a very dangerous place to be. Uh

[4:48] there there a lot of unexloded artillery

[4:49] shells on the island.

[4:51] >> Keeping to the shoreline, a dozen

[4:52] volunteers, all from Martha's Vineyard,

[4:55] were told to collect anything unusual.

[4:59] Everywhere we went in the Atlantic off

[5:00] Martha's Vineyard, there were searchers.

[5:03] These state environmental police stopped

[5:05] to pick up something they spotted in the

[5:06] water. It was a plastic bag. John

[5:10] Heleno, who would have taken his family

[5:12] fishing today, instead took his family

[5:14] to join in the search.

[5:15] >> Uh we just we got some floating stuff

[5:17] that we took out of the water. I'm sure

[5:19] it's nothing. Just some garbage. Some

[5:20] balloons and a garbage bag and stuff.

[5:24] C130s with special equipment that would

[5:26] pick up any signal from the plane's

[5:28] beacon crisscross the island skies. Even

[5:31] with all the military and law

[5:33] enforcement agencies now involved in the

[5:35] search, there was also a lot more

[5:37] technology available on the scene today

[5:39] along with volunteers. But as the

[5:42] experts told us over and over again,

[5:44] even with all that, it is often largely

[5:47] a question of luck. John Miller, ABC

[5:50] News, in the waters of Martha's

[5:51] Vineyard. More details are emerging

[5:54] today about John Kennedy Jr.'s passion

[5:56] for flying and the level of his

[5:59] expertise as a relatively new pilot.

[6:01] Here's ABC's Ron Claybornne.

[6:05] Experienced pilots say Kennedy took a

[6:07] huge risk flying overwater at night in

[6:10] his Piper, Saratoga. Several said

[6:12] Kennedy may have flown into pitch

[6:14] darkness, what pilots call a black hole.

[6:17] and you get out there out of sight of

[6:19] land somewhere or you're can't see land

[6:23] because of the restricted visibility,

[6:25] you really don't know up from down.

[6:27] >> If a plane goes into a banking turn, for

[6:29] instance, experts say the pilot may

[6:31] believe he's upright and steer himself

[6:33] into a spinning dive known as the dead

[6:36] man spiral. Being able to read the

[6:38] plane's instruments can get the pilot

[6:40] out of such trouble. But Kennedy was not

[6:42] fully certified for instrument flight. A

[6:45] source at Essex County Airport, New

[6:47] Jersey, from which Kennedy departed

[6:49] Friday night, says he told him he had

[6:51] passed only the written test for

[6:53] instrument certification. He says

[6:55] Kennedy also claimed to have logged 300

[6:58] hours of flight time. A Toronto

[7:00] businessman says Kennedy flew there last

[7:02] Monday with an instructor because he

[7:05] felt that an ankle injury he had

[7:06] recently suffered impaired his ability

[7:08] to fly the plane. He had to hop along

[7:11] his his he he he was in a bit of

[7:13] discomfort from time to time.

[7:15] >> Last Friday, Kennedy flew without a

[7:17] co-pilot.

[7:19] >> Kennedy received his pilot's license

[7:21] here at Flight Safety International. FSI

[7:24] has a reputation for running one of the

[7:26] best pilot training programs in the

[7:28] country. In fact, most students come

[7:30] here to learn how to fly commercial

[7:32] airliners. Arthur Marx, who gave Kennedy

[7:35] flight lessons in the 80s, says he flew

[7:37] with him last summer and thought he was

[7:39] a confident pilot.

[7:41] >> I never saw any overconfidence. Um, he

[7:45] was not cocky. Um, he uh

[7:50] he probably was better than he thought

[7:52] he was,

[7:55] and I told him that.

[7:56] >> An acquaintance says Kennedy's wife,

[7:58] Carolyn, was supportive of his hobby

[8:00] because he enjoyed it so much. But

[8:02] personally, she was afraid of flying.

[8:04] Afraid for herself and for her husband.

[8:08] Ron Claybourne, ABC News, Vero Beach,

[8:10] Florida.

[8:12] >> Every year, hundreds of pilots of small

[8:14] planes tackle textbooks and take to the

[8:17] cockpit to master the theory and

[8:19] mechanics of flight. The thrill of the

[8:21] challenge often outweighs the risks.

[8:24] ABC's Jamie Floyd spent the day at Essex

[8:27] County Airport in New Jersey.

[8:30] Yesterday, another single engine plane

[8:32] crashed, this time near Chicago. Two

[8:35] dead. In fact, what happened to John

[8:37] Kennedy's plane is nothing new when it

[8:39] comes to general aviation aircraft.

[8:42] Smaller, usually private planes. Last

[8:45] year, 1,97

[8:47] general aviation flights resulted in

[8:49] accidents. 621 people died. In the month

[8:53] of May alone, there were 216 crashes

[8:57] with 83 fatalities.

[9:00] John Kennedy kept his Piper Saratoga

[9:02] here in this hangar at the Essex County

[9:05] Airport in New Jersey. When he took off

[9:07] Friday, it was just getting dark.

[9:09] >> The man was flying at night in uh

[9:14] reduced visibility over nondescript

[9:17] terrain over the water and it's like

[9:20] flying in a box closed in on all sides,

[9:24] pitch black inside. Haze is also a

[9:27] problem for pilots in small planes.

[9:30] Today we flew out of Essex County

[9:32] Airport in a thick haze.

[9:34] >> You can imagine trying to do this at

[9:36] night where it's even more of a problem.

[9:38] So you add nighttime, hazy conditions,

[9:40] and the fact that there was a moonless

[9:42] night and uh you know it's very very

[9:44] difficult to uh control the aircraft.

[9:47] >> One of the major causes of crashes is

[9:49] poor pilot judgment. the decision to fly

[9:52] visually into conditions that call for

[9:55] full reliance on the instrument panel.

[9:58] >> The pilot has to know his ability, what

[10:02] he can and can't do.

[10:03] >> The NTSB estimates that 71% of fatal

[10:07] general aviation accidents are pilot

[10:09] related. It is a lesson not lost on some

[10:12] pilots.

[10:13] >> This is serious. You can kill yourself

[10:14] in one of these if you don't know what

[10:15] you're doing.

[10:16] >> And a lesson reinforced

[10:19] this weekend. Jamie Floyd, ABC News,

[10:22] Caldwell, New Jersey.

[10:24] >> Still ahead on World News Tonight this

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[12:20] the family compound. Morton Dean is in

[12:22] Hyannisport tonight. Mort, was there any

[12:25] word from the family today?

[12:27] >> Well, Carol, the Kennedy family pretty

[12:29] much kept to itself in or near this

[12:31] compound. There were no public

[12:32] statements, no public comments.

[12:37] So often in the past, in both tragic as

[12:40] well as triumphant times here, the

[12:42] Kennedys have sailed and walked the

[12:44] beach. Today they sailed and walked the

[12:48] beach. Robert Kennedy Jr. and Rory

[12:51] Kennedy. She was to have been married

[12:53] here this weekend. But it was mostly

[12:55] their body language that told the story

[12:57] of a desparing family today, of another

[13:00] Kennedy vigil. family, friends, clergy

[13:04] trying to keep the faith, trying to keep

[13:06] hope alive.

[13:08] >> Flags in the family compound were at

[13:10] full staff. Yellow ribbons around the

[13:12] compound testified that not all hope had

[13:15] eroded. In the gleaming white tent where

[13:18] the Kennedy family wedding was to have

[13:20] taken place, there were deep expressions

[13:22] of faith and hope. This morning, a mass

[13:25] Senator Ted Kennedy and on his right,

[13:27] Ethel Kennedy playing the most prominent

[13:30] roles as family elders.

[13:33] On this sweltering summer day in this

[13:35] seaside resort, many tourists

[13:37] volunteered heartfelt messages to the

[13:39] family. At the memorial for President

[13:42] Kennedy, a bouquet and prayers.

[13:45] >> There's so much sadness for one family.

[13:47] It's just hard to get a hold of. at the

[13:50] JFK Museum. God bless were the most

[13:53] visible words written in the guest book

[13:55] today.

[13:56] >> You look at the tragedy and that whole

[13:58] family. And I just feel for his sister

[14:00] because she's the only one left and

[14:02] that's got to be the hardest thing.

[14:07] >> This is not just an American story. A

[14:09] huge gathering of correspondents and

[14:11] cameras from around the world converged

[14:13] here today to tell the latest chapter in

[14:16] a book of tragedies about America's most

[14:19] prominent political family.

[14:21] >> Unless there is an extraordinary turn of

[14:23] events somewhere out in the ocean, this

[14:25] promises to be another long sad night

[14:28] here in Hyannisport. Carol,

[14:30] >> thank you very much. Morton Dean

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[16:46] focused on the Kennedy family. But there

[16:49] is another grieving family. ABC's Guju

[16:52] Chang reports.

[16:56] Neighbors and friends of the besetses

[16:58] prayed today at a church in Greenwich,

[17:00] Connecticut, where Carolyn and her

[17:02] sister Lauren grew up. Inside, three

[17:05] candles continue to burn for the

[17:07] missing.

[17:07] >> We just want to keep praying and if if

[17:09] our prayers are a source of support and

[17:12] strength for both families, well then we

[17:14] we've done what we should be doing.

[17:15] >> Relatives are gathered tonight at the

[17:17] family home in Greenwich. Police have

[17:20] blocked off the entire street. At

[17:22] Caroline's high school, friends recall

[17:24] being thrilled when they first heard

[17:25] their classmate was dating the glamorous

[17:27] Kennedy.

[17:28] >> This is where Carolyn um signed my

[17:31] yearbook. It says, "You made Doc's class

[17:34] and my first year a good one. Thanks.

[17:38] Love Carolyn."

[17:40] So, it's really sad to read that now.

[17:43] >> Colleagues at Calvin Klein, where

[17:45] Carolyn was a publicist, say she never

[17:47] complained about the burdens that came

[17:49] along with his fame. I don't think it

[17:51] was so much about John Kennedy, the

[17:54] celebrity. I mean, she was in love with

[17:55] the guy and and they and he was in love

[17:58] with her.

[17:59] >> Older sister Lauren, who was 34, chose a

[18:02] less glamorous but no less successful

[18:04] path. It was her garment bag that washed

[18:06] up on shore. Her business card from

[18:09] Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, where she

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[18:13] Lauren had reportedly begun dating

[18:15] Kennedy cousin Bobby Shrivever. Lauren

[18:18] has an identical twin sister, Lisa. She

[18:21] and her parents, William Betett and Anne

[18:23] Freeman, are waiting for some more

[18:25] tonight along with the rest of the

[18:27] nation. Guju Chang, ABC News, New York.

[18:31] >> During the agonizing wait, many

[18:33] Americans continue to react with shock

[18:36] to the news. Here's ABC's Andrea

[18:38] McCarron.

[18:40] A somber President Clinton returned to

[18:42] the White House from Camp David to speak

[18:44] to a national audience and express the

[18:47] sadness shared by many Americans. The

[18:49] Kennedy family has inspired Americans to

[18:51] public service,

[18:53] strengthened our faith in the future,

[18:56] and moved our nation forward.

[18:59] Through it all, they have suffered much

[19:03] and given more. By now, there are few

[19:06] Americans who have not heard the news of

[19:08] yet another Kennedy family tragedy.

[19:10] >> Oh my gosh, I cried.

[19:12] >> From the streets of Chicago,

[19:14] >> they're like the royalties that I know

[19:16] here in America. So, it's really I mean,

[19:18] it's it's kind of depressing.

[19:19] >> To an airport in Atlanta,

[19:21] >> it's just I I think it's a shock to the

[19:24] whole world.

[19:24] >> Outside the New York City apartment, the

[19:26] Kennedy shared a makeshift memorial with

[19:29] a poignant remembrance of the man who

[19:31] grew up in the public eye. I believe

[19:33] that the Kennedys were a great American

[19:35] dynasty. I believe that it is a national

[19:38] tragedy.

[19:39] >> To see the flowers, uh to see the

[19:42] candles,

[19:44] uh to recognize how many hours have gone

[19:46] by, it just seems like it's over.

[19:49] >> And there were flowers in Dallas, a

[19:51] tribute at the site where President

[19:53] Kennedy was assassinated. The tragedy

[19:56] touched all Americans in Los Angeles.

[19:59] Particularly for us in the Latino

[20:00] community, the Kennedy family has always

[20:03] been uh very close to the hearts of many

[20:06] of our people in the African-American

[20:07] community. The Kennedy family has always

[20:10] been, you know, very supportive and and

[20:12] has done incredible things for our

[20:13] people.

[20:14] >> At New York St. Patrick's Cathedral,

[20:16] prayers for the Kennedys and the

[20:18] Bassetses.

[20:19] >> Here at Arlington National Cemetery,

[20:21] where an eternal flame burns in memory

[20:23] of President Kennedy, most thoughts and

[20:25] prayers tonight are for his son. We feel

[20:28] like we knew him personally, like we

[20:30] knew the family personally. There is so

[20:31] much part of us.

[20:32] >> A part of a country hoping John F.

[20:34] Kennedy Jr. would someday carry on the

[20:37] legacy of his father. Andrea McCarron,

[20:40] ABC News, Washington.

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[23:15] In sports, perfection on the mound in

[23:17] New York today. Yankee pitcher David

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[23:34] the British Open in Scotland, one of the

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[23:41] Lowry ended up beating Frenchman Jean

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[23:48] When we come back, America's fascination

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[25:28] >> As the search for John F. Kennedy Jr.

[25:30] continues, stay with ABC News throughout

[25:33] the day. And tonight, watch Barbara

[25:35] Walters and Charles Gibson on 2020

[25:37] Sunday.

[25:40] >> Finally tonight, the realization that

[25:42] there are likely no survivors from the

[25:44] Kennedy plane crash is sinking in.

[25:47] Throughout the nation, sympathy is

[25:49] especially strong for one member of the

[25:51] family touched by so much good fortune

[25:54] and so much bad luck. ABC's Beth Nissen

[25:57] reports.

[26:00] >> So many people found themselves drawn to

[26:02] the screen all weekend, watching the

[26:04] story emerge in pieces. A sneaker, a

[26:07] luggage tag, a twist of metal. Officials

[26:10] were careful to say there might still be

[26:12] hope. But most of us saw it almost from

[26:14] the first as a tragedy. Another sad act

[26:17] in the drama of the Kennedys, a family

[26:20] that has long starred on America's

[26:21] center stage. Now, of the young family

[26:24] that once made the White House into

[26:26] Camelot, only one is still among us,

[26:29] Caroline. So much loss in her life. She

[26:33] never had more than a kindergartener's

[26:34] memory of her father. Her uncle Robert

[26:37] became her surrogate father. Then she

[26:39] lost him, too. Caroline has always been

[26:42] close to her handsome brother, John.

[26:44] They grew up side by side in the most

[26:46] loving kind of protective custody,

[26:48] fiercely guarded by their mother,

[26:50] Jackie. They lost her in 1994 to

[26:53] lymphatic cancer. At least say Jackie's

[26:56] friends now, she didn't have to live to

[26:58] see this day. Didn't have to live

[26:59] through the loss of a child she'd spent

[27:01] her life protecting. A loss the bet

[27:04] family is suffering doubly. Two

[27:06] beautiful, vibrant daughters gone. A

[27:09] remaining daughter left without her

[27:10] twin, the other half of her soul. For so

[27:14] many of the rest of us, this tragedy

[27:16] seems personal. A loss not of family,

[27:18] but of the familiar. A boy our hearts

[27:21] broke for when he was three. A boy we

[27:24] watched grow up and were relieved to see

[27:26] turn out so well. A boy other hearts

[27:29] broke for when he married someone else.

[27:33] Strapped into one small plane were three

[27:35] lives of such uncommon beauty, style,

[27:38] adventure, and most of all the promise

[27:41] that comes with youth and privilege.

[27:43] Promise now submerged. It is what most

[27:46] of us feel as pity. What most of us know

[27:49] as sorrow.

[27:51] Beth Nissen, ABC News, New York.

[27:55] And that's our report tonight. Stay with

[27:57] ABC News for continuing coverage of the

[28:00] Kennedy plane crash later on 2020 Sunday

[28:03] and tomorrow on Good Morning America.

[28:05] I'm Carol Simpson. From all of us here

[28:08] at ABC News, have a good week and good

[28:10] night.

[28:27] From ABC News, morning to night, the

[28:30] latest as the search for John F. Kennedy

[28:32] Jr. continues. For up tothem minutee

[28:34] coverage, stay with ABC News.

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