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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that she was extremely late to the airstrip because she spent a couple of hours at the nail salon having the paint color redone several times to match her outfit for the rehearsal dinner.
By the time she finally arrived, it was dark already. They should have just skipped the dinner and waited until the next day to fly to the wedding but he thought they could still arrive in time for dinner even though he had not yet achieved the level of flying by instrument panel. There is no horizon in the darkness. They probably had no idea that they were heading into the water.
Both parties were daft. This is why his mother prohibited him from pursuing flying small aircrafts while she was alive. She understood something about his lack of judgement.
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I think any pilot would tell you that it has absolutely nothing to do with her nails. He was the pilot. It’s on him completely. He killed them all with obvious negligence. It would probably be criminal if he had somehow survived. [/quote]

His plan was to drop Lauren at MV and then he and Carolyn would continue onto Hyannis Port.  He turned down a flight instructor who offered to accompany them that afternoon due to the dark/weather.  It just seemed like a very ambitious flight plan given his lack of experience, the night, and the hazy weather.  A totally preventable tragedy.  Their poor families.[/quote]

I'm sure they'll never say but I'd love to know what the girls' mother and surviving sister think of him. I also thought it was a little odd that Jack Schlossberg only mentioned John not Carolyn in his recent comments. [/quote]

I would guess that the Bessettes and Kennedys who signed the monetary settlement had to agree never to publicly discuss their relationship or accident.  Jack wouldn't have been a party to that agreement, but the wider Kennedy family has probably all agreed not to discuss Carolyn publicly.[/quote]

And clearly there was a rift between the families. No amount of money will atone for the loss of their daughters, and their treatment in the aftermath. The Kennedys don't seem the type to make any effort to atone beyond the money, and I'm quite sure would have made every effort to get out of that if they had a leg to stand on.[/quote]

How did the Keneddys treat the Besettes in the aftermath?[/quote]

Following the 1999 plane crash, the Kennedy family, particularly through Ed Schlossberg (husband of Caroline), reportedly treated the Bessette family with hostility and exclusion, focusing heavily on honoring only John Jr. in the Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline. While publicly acknowledging the loss, private tensions arose over burial plans, with the Kennedys initially indicating they could do what they pleased with Carolyn's remains. 
Key details regarding the aftermath include:
Conflict Over Burial: The Kennedy family wanted to separate the burial arrangements, with Carolyn's mother, Anne Freeman, initially fearing her daughter would not be treated with the same respect as a Kennedy.
Aggressive Treatment: According to RFK Jr.'s diaries, Ed Schlossberg "bullied" Carolyn’s mother, Anne Freeman, during discussions about the funeral.
Eulogy Restrictions: Reports indicate that a Kennedy family member stated, "Kennedys don't eulogize non-Kennedys," which was used to limit the involvement of the Bessette family in the memorial services.
Legal Action: The tension led to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the Bessette family against the Kennedy estate, which was settled in 2001 for a reported $15 million.
Final Arrangements: Despite the initial conflict, both Carolyn and her sister Lauren were cremated and buried at sea in a combined ceremony. 
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