Overview
- New pieces in People and Entertainment Weekly revisit the case using NTSB findings and Jeff Guzzetti’s account as interest rises with FX’s Love Story.
- The NTSB record says John F. Kennedy Jr. declined instructor Bob Merena’s help and departed after sunset while still training for his instrument rating.
- Guzzetti says haze over the black ocean erased outside visual cues, which required strict reliance on cockpit instruments rather than looking outside.
- He interprets the final radar track as spatial disorientation that led to a graveyard spiral into the water.
- Investigators had no cockpit voice recording because small planes like the Piper Saratoga do not carry black boxes, which limited direct evidence of what was said or done in the cockpit.