<p class="ingestion featured-caption">John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, died 25 years ago after their plane crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and her sister died in a 1999 plane crash near Martha's Vineyard.</li><li>The politician was just 38 years old when he died.</li></ul><p>The <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-prominent-members-of-youngest-kennedy-family-generation-2020-9">Kennedy family</a> has been subjected to many tragedies over the years, including two <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/american-presidents-escaped-assassination-attempts-2017-5">assassinations</a> and a plane crash that took the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr. and two other passengers.</p><p>Twenty-five years ago, on July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her older sister Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. There were no survivors from the accident.</p><p>The deaths became a major news story and perpetuated rumors of a <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kennedy-family-tragedies-curse-assassinations-plane-crashes-2023-3">"Kennedy curse."</a></p><p>JFK Jr.'s father, former President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. His uncle, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, was assassinated five years later in 1968. And two years before JFK Jr.'s death, his cousin Michael Kennedy also died after hitting a tree while skiing in Aspen, Colorado.</p><p>Here's what we know about the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr. and two others.</p>