Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was: "Kennedy Jr.'s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation." After a lengthy search, the wreck was discovered in the late afternoon of July 21. The bodies were recovered from the ocean floor by Navy divers and taken by motorcade to the county medical examiner's office, where autopsies revealed that the crash victims had died upon impact. At the same time, the Kennedy and Bessette families announced their plans for memorial services. In the late hours of July 21, the three bodies were taken from Hyannis to Duxbury where they were cremated in the Mayflower Cemetery crematorium. In the morning of July 22, their ashes were scattered from the Navy ship off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Read Less