it was a little bit less complex as the piper saratoga.n kennedy had been flying for i ththink apprproximately y 18 months, had someththing over 300 flight hours, but this was a new aircraft that he had purchased and he did not have as much experience in this aircraft as he had in the previous aircraft he had owned. in aviation, most accidents are not a result of a single catastrophic event. it's usually a chain of multiple e small evenents. i have a theory which i call the falling-domino theory. soso if you cocould imaginine ds stackeked in a linine, each domino would represent a very small event that's happening or r a proble. lonnnnstrom: once you m make one mistake, that leads to another mistake, which leads to another mistake, which leads to another mistake. we c call it falalling bebehind the c curve. bailey: in john's case, there was less than a dozen events that would represent each domino or a problem. once one of these dominos start to fall, they're taking everything with it, and the end result would be catastrophe. and that's wh

s piper saratoga."ent out to the living room of my friend patricia's house, anand she saidid "john kenenneds plane is missing," and i said, "what does that mean?" and she said, "they don't know." and we a all sort ofof had theos like maybe they ran out of gas and landed on an island somewhere. amananpour: maybe he'd got los. maybe he'd stopped somewhere with his wife and sister-in-law. maybe he was going to come back. berman: rosemarie, john's assistant, i think she said to me something like, "you know what, i bet you the weather was bad, and ththey landed,d, and theyey're at, likeke, at a a holiday i inn somewheh, anand he's goioing to be s o embabarrassed whwhen he wakeke, anand he sees,s, you know,, what's's going on n in the new" i just kept thinking he's going to kill me if this s gets out b because i w hehe's going t to be fine,, and they'r're going toto kill . they'r're going toto be like, "how did you let this get so out of control?" we can confirm that the faa cleared the airplane for takeoff,