On Friday, July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. was on his way to celebrate one of his oldest friends’ fifth wedding anniversary. The plans for the weekend kept changing, but it was finally decided that John, his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, flying in a single-engine Piper Saratoga piloted by John, would stop by Martha’s Vineyard to drop off Lauren before heading back to Hyannis Port to meet up with Noonan, his wife, and some other friends for a champagne toast. The next day, the couple