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nightmare in the sky.

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Extreme turbulence, 37,000 feet in the air, at

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least one dead and dozens injured,

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including some Americans. The harrowing flight,

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passengers violently tossed into the ceiling.

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The seatbelt sign apparently only came

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on a few seconds prior to

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hitting this turbulence. As we head

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into a record-breaking holiday travel weekend,

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the crucial piece of advice for

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flyers. Plus, Graceland

0:47

foreclosure. This moment we are in

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Graceland. The fight to save Elvis

0:51

Presley's historic home from the auction

0:53

block. With

0:57

hits like Suspicious Minds, a major

0:59

tourist destination raking in millions of

1:01

dollars a year, why their Presley

1:03

family says it's a scam. And

1:07

Carolyn Bissette Kennedy, inside

1:09

her storied romance with John

1:11

F Kennedy Jr., known as

1:13

America's Prince. He was coming

1:15

to buy a few suits at Calvin

1:17

Klein and of course he left with

1:20

a crush and her phone

1:22

number. 25 years after their

1:24

tragic death, reframing her image.

1:27

The assumptions were from the pictures

1:29

that Carolyn was icy. And one

1:31

of JFK Jr.'s biggest regrets. Plus,

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prices. Two industry giants

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compete for customers who crave

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meals. Nightline, we'll

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be right back. Good

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evening. Thank you for joining us. Joining us, we begin

2:01

with terrifying turbulence for passengers aboard

2:03

a packed flight. The incident

2:05

putting flyers on edge as millions prepare

2:07

to travel over the busy holiday weekend.

2:10

The horror and chaos inside the plane and

2:12

the new details coming in tonight. Here's

2:14

ABC's transportation correspondent, Jio Benitez.

2:20

Outside, a scene of absolute pandemonium.

2:24

Many crews scrambling to help the passengers

2:26

of Singapore Airlines flight SQ321. But

2:31

inside, so much worse. Videos and

2:33

images showing the devastation of that

2:35

mid-air crisis. When the Singapore Airlines

2:37

Boeing 777 hit

2:39

turbulence earlier today, at least one

2:41

person has died. Seven more are

2:43

critically injured. I mean,

2:45

it's just me on checks, not knowing

2:47

what's going on. Loss of control,

2:50

loss of control, helplessness.

2:54

Andrew Davies says he and other passengers tried

2:56

to help the injured. The worst thing

2:59

I saw was from the gentleman who lost his life. Two

3:02

people, he was very afraid of the

3:04

assassinations and he was talking about him. There

3:06

was a lady screaming at him. I got back.

3:09

The flight left Monday night from London's

3:12

Heathrow Airport, destined for Singapore, with 211

3:14

passengers and 18 crew on board.

3:17

And about 10 hours into the flight,

3:19

airline officials say the aircraft hit a

3:21

patch of turbulence. The pilot declared a

3:23

medical emergency and diverted the plane to

3:25

Bangkok. So as wild

3:27

as this must have felt inside the

3:29

cabin, the airplane only dropped 100 feet

3:33

and then it climbed back up 300 feet. So

3:36

just that short period of

3:38

negative g, descending

3:40

100 feet very rapidly, was

3:43

enough to push all those people who were

3:45

injured up onto the ceiling or to bounce

3:47

off the seats around them. Pictures

3:50

from the scene show oxygen masks dropped

3:52

from the ceiling and equipment thrown about,

3:54

the incident causing damage and injuring multiple

3:56

people on board, with what appears to be blood

3:59

seen on the plane. seat handles. Parts

4:01

of the ceiling caved in. All

4:04

told, 71 people were sent to the hospitals

4:07

including two American passengers. Thai

4:09

officials say that six people remain in

4:12

critical condition. The one passenger who

4:14

died, 73 year old Jeff Kitchen,

4:16

his musical theater group confirmed on

4:18

Facebook paying tribute to their friend.

4:21

Singapore Airlines releasing a statement saying

4:23

in part Singapore Airlines offers its

4:25

deepest condolences to the family of

4:27

the deceased. We deeply

4:29

apologize for the traumatic experience that

4:32

our passengers and crew members suffered on

4:34

this flight. We are providing all necessary

4:36

assistance during this difficult time. Travel

4:41

like never before. Singapore

4:43

Airlines is consistently known as one

4:46

of the top airlines. Last year,

4:48

Skytrax, an international air transport ratings

4:50

organization, ranked them as the world's

4:52

best. This is an

4:54

airline that has great pilots, has

4:56

great training, has a great safety

4:58

record. So when the pilot says

5:00

put your seatbelt on, even when

5:02

you're not experiencing turbulence, it's

5:05

for your own good. Turbulence accidents are the

5:07

most common causes of injuries aboard commercial airliners.

5:09

According to a 2021 study by the National

5:12

Transportation Safety Board, the FAA reporting

5:14

that it found 163 incidents of

5:17

serious turbulence injuries from 2009 to 2022. And just

5:20

look at this computer

5:22

simulation posted on the FAA's

5:25

website demonstrating the effects turbulence

5:27

can have on belted and

5:29

unmelted passengers and unsecured objects

5:31

inside an aircraft cabin. And

5:33

it all could be getting worse. There

5:35

was strong evidence that turbulence is increasing

5:38

because of climate change. Severe clear air

5:40

turbulence in the North Atlantic has increased

5:42

by 55% since 1979.

5:46

Weather predictions about global warming increasing

5:48

turbulence come true. The

5:50

idea is here that more people are flying

5:53

and as more people fly, airplanes are going

5:55

to encounter more turbulence. And when we see

5:57

more turbulence, we're going to see more of

5:59

these of accidents, these kinds

6:01

of injuries if people do not put

6:03

their seatbelt on when the seatbelt sign

6:06

comes on. Airborne incidents are incredibly rare,

6:08

but they do happen. The results can

6:10

be harrowing. Just last

6:12

year, this Southwest flight to Florida, the

6:14

cabin filling with smoke and panic. The

6:19

passengers evacuating after a bird strike.

6:21

At the moment, though, you kind of think, please

6:27

God, just let me get out of this. Also

6:30

last year, this Lufthansa flight suddenly

6:32

dropping a thousand feet during dinner

6:34

service, sending objects flying and a

6:36

flight attendant reportedly hitting the ceiling.

6:39

But what is the most terrifying? This

6:46

was the nightmare scenario for the passengers

6:48

of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, bound

6:51

for Ontario, California. This

6:53

past day, terrifying

6:56

moments, not 16,000 feet in the air.

6:59

That was really crazy. As asking God, would

7:01

angels send his wings to all of us?

7:04

The Alaska jet, a Boeing 737 MAX 9 with 177 people

7:06

on board, taking

7:09

off from Portland, Oregon, when all of

7:11

a sudden the door plug, which is

7:14

used to cover and seal optional emergency

7:16

exits, flew off. I was just

7:18

being really scared. And I remember being like, I

7:20

just need to tell everyone, like, I love them.

7:22

I thought I was going to die. After

7:24

a three-day search, that door plug

7:26

that flew off the plane was

7:28

located in a Portland, Oregon schoolteacher's

7:31

backyard. An NTSB report released in

7:33

February found that four bolts in the door plug, designed

7:35

to prevent the plug from falling off

7:38

the plane, were missing before the incident

7:40

occurred. All of this comes at the

7:42

cusp of the busiest travel day of

7:44

the year so far. AAA predicts over

7:46

3.5 million people will travel by plane

7:48

over the holiday weekend, building

7:50

up to be the busiest Memorial Day weekend

7:52

at U.S. airports since 2005. Lots

7:54

of people are going to be flying. This

7:57

is the time of year when we see severe storms. hilly

8:00

around the middle of the country. So

8:02

pilots are going to be extra careful

8:04

in making sure that seatbelt sign comes

8:06

on in time for everybody who isn't

8:08

buckled up to get buckled up. Our

8:12

thanks to GEO. We turn now

8:14

to a stunning development involving Graceland,

8:16

the famed home of Elvis Presley

8:18

and popular tourist attraction in Memphis,

8:21

which may be facing foreclosure. How

8:23

the king of rock and roll's granddaughter is trying

8:25

to stop them from happening. More

8:27

now from ABC's Steve Olson-Somme. For

8:31

worldwide fans of Elvis Presley who still

8:33

think of Graceland as sacred ground, the

8:35

developments tonight are stunning that the Memphis

8:37

mansion is up on the auction block

8:39

to pay off what creditors say is

8:41

a family debt. But tonight,

8:43

Elvis' granddaughter, who inherited the mansion from

8:45

her mother, is fighting this, accusing those

8:47

same creditors of trying to pull off

8:50

what she says is a fraudulent sale.

8:52

The people trying to take the property claim that

8:54

before she died last year, Lisa Marie Presley took

8:56

out a loan for $3.8 million and used Graceland

9:01

as collateral. But Riley Keough,

9:03

Presley's daughter, Elvis' granddaughter and the current

9:05

owner says in a counter lawsuit that

9:08

her mother did not borrow anything. She

9:10

also says that the documents are forgeries

9:12

and she shares a sworn statement from

9:15

the notary whose signature appears on loan

9:17

documents saying that I have never met

9:19

Lisa Marie Presley nor have I ever

9:22

notarized a document signed by Lisa

9:24

Marie Presley. We were at Graceland

9:26

when the family was helping to

9:28

promote the Oscar nominated movie Elvis.

9:30

So I'm sitting there watching this

9:32

movie and going, God, I wish you

9:34

could see this. It was perfection.

9:36

It's a major tourist attraction that pulls

9:39

in millions of dollars each year for

9:41

the Presley heirs. In a statement Priscilla

9:43

Presley, Elvis' ex-wife and Riley Keough's grandmother,

9:45

said that Graceland will not be auctioned

9:48

saying that this is not happening. This

9:50

is a scam. connected

10:00

and emailed as her bouncing back. There's

10:02

a court hearing tomorrow, the family is

10:04

asking the state to kill the auction.

10:08

Up next, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. She

10:10

nabbed one of America's most eligible

10:12

bachelors, John F. Kennedy Jr. and

10:15

was hounded by paparazzi, the

10:17

woman behind the glamour. Welcome

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11:49

Welcome back. John F.

11:51

Kennedy Jr. was considered American royalty,

11:53

one of the country's most eligible

11:55

bachelors. He grew up in the

11:57

spotlight and when he married Carolyn Bissette, the

12:00

intensified. Now 25

12:02

years after their tragic deaths, a new

12:04

book is shedding light on the side

12:06

of the set, Kennedy, that the world

12:08

never knew. Here's ABC's Deborah

12:10

Roberts. The man who

12:12

loved her, JFK Jr., called her an

12:15

ordinary person, a person who

12:17

was catapulted into the national spotlight,

12:19

often vilified by the tabloids. The

12:21

assumptions were from the pictures that

12:23

she was icy, that she was

12:25

cold. What I quickly learned was

12:28

that she was warm and effervescent.

12:30

In her new biography, Once Upon

12:32

a Time, the Captivating Life of

12:34

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, author Elizabeth Beller

12:36

looks closely at the woman behind

12:39

the media frenzy, who captured the

12:41

heart of one of the world's

12:43

most eligible bachelors, once

12:45

named People magazine's Sexiest Man

12:47

Alive. 25 years

12:50

after their tragic early deaths,

12:52

his wife Carolyn remains an

12:54

enigmatic figure. You write about

12:56

how John popped the

12:59

question, and Carolyn said, I'll get

13:01

back to you. I'll get back to you. She

13:05

knew that she was not going to

13:07

enjoy a large part of what being

13:10

a public person meant, and

13:12

I think even though she had

13:14

this intense fear, I think

13:16

the fact that she loved him took

13:18

that over. A child

13:21

of divorce working all through high school

13:23

and college to become a publicist for

13:25

Calvin Klein. She wasn't born into privilege.

13:27

No, she was not born into privilege.

13:29

She grew up with her mother and

13:31

her sisters, surrounded by very strong

13:33

women, and I think that informed

13:35

her work life too. A

13:37

contrast to her husband's life,

13:39

known as America's Prince, born

13:42

into an American dynasty weeks after

13:44

his father's presidential election back in

13:47

1960. Those Camelot years coming

13:49

to a devastating halt after Kennedy's

13:51

assassination in 1963. The president died at

13:53

135. It was little John

13:58

John forever immortalized. in the

14:00

memories of Americans at his father's funeral,

14:03

America watching as he grew up,

14:05

becoming America's heartthrob. The

14:07

United States has sort of

14:09

a mother-in-law mentality when

14:11

it comes to John. He's our prince,

14:14

so who's going to be good

14:16

enough for that? JFK

14:18

Jr. couldn't escape life in

14:20

the public eye, dating high-profile celebrities

14:22

like actress Daryl Hannah. But

14:25

it was one fateful shopping spree that

14:27

would lead him to the one.

14:29

He was coming to buy a few

14:31

suits at Calvin Klein, when of course

14:33

he left with a crush and

14:36

her phone number and a few suits. Carolyn

14:38

and John met in the spring of 1992, when she was

14:41

in her mid-20s. The

14:44

pair began dating in 1994 and engaged a year later. As

14:49

things intensified, it got crazy.

14:51

Some of the press was very nice. Some

14:53

of it was sort of, who is she? You

14:55

know, why her? Though

14:58

Carolyn was often sought after for

15:00

her elegant fashion style and natural

15:02

beauty, the couple became a target

15:04

for ruthless paparazzi and media scrutiny.

15:07

She felt hunted by the paparazzi. She didn't

15:09

look happy when she was having her pictures

15:11

taken on the street, so people

15:14

made the assumption that she was

15:16

icy and cold. She was also

15:18

aware that she did not look

15:20

like the cookie-cutter American. Newspapers

15:23

called her beaky. John was so

15:25

accustomed to the press and occasionally would give them

15:27

what they wanted and maybe make jokes with them.

15:29

But so many of the photos are

15:31

of her looking shocked. She was

15:34

very uncomfortable with it and he

15:36

learned from the best. He learned

15:38

from Jackie. The attention never swayed

15:40

their commitment. Carolyn Bissette

15:43

becoming Carolyn Bissette Kennedy in

15:45

an ultra-secret wedding. Her slip

15:47

dress gown designed by her

15:49

friend, then a little-known designer

15:52

named Narciso Rodriguez. Micah Kennedy,

15:55

John, was adventurous. He decides to

15:57

take flying lessons and she wasn't

15:59

really thrilled. thrilled about that. In fact, she said

16:01

she didn't trust him flying.

16:03

Yes, I think for Carolyn she

16:05

felt like maybe he was

16:07

a little disorganized to be a

16:09

pilot. As the years went on,

16:11

tension began to build in their

16:14

home. One point of contention, Carolyn's

16:16

late mother-in-law, Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She

16:18

never met his mother. She never

16:20

met Jackie. Friends do say once

16:23

he did decide, yes, this is

16:25

the person, by then

16:27

Jackie was quite

16:29

sick. One of his biggest regrets in

16:31

his life was not introducing them because

16:34

that was another thing that I think

16:36

hurt Carolyn. A lot of people were

16:38

waiting for them to settle down, have

16:40

children, but she was nervous. Very nervous

16:43

and unfortunately the accident

16:45

happened before she had that

16:47

opportunity. At

16:49

just 33, Carolyn's narrative cut short.

16:52

A search for John F. Kennedy

16:54

and his wife and her sister

16:56

who disappeared last night

16:59

on their way first to Martha's Vineyard just off

17:01

the East Coast. It was an absolute shock

17:03

and there was 24-7 coverage of it. They went

17:06

into overdrive. I

17:11

honestly wonder sometimes if

17:14

there sometimes wasn't a little bit of feeling

17:16

of guilt. On the

17:18

part of the media? The tabloids. When it

17:20

became clear that it was no longer search

17:23

and rescue, it was search and

17:25

recovery, the press kept on. Investigators

17:28

later determined John lost control

17:30

of the plane after becoming

17:32

disoriented in the dense night

17:34

fog. Yet rumors surrounding the crash

17:36

circulated for years, with some blaming

17:39

Carolyn for the fatal trip, claiming

17:41

she delayed the flight with the pedicure,

17:43

leading them to fly in the dark.

17:46

You wrote that she was not given

17:48

due process in the court of public

17:50

opinion. What do you mean by that?

17:52

When you're in grief, you want to

17:54

put blame somewhere. And because she

17:57

had not engaged with the media, it was a

17:59

very bad thing. It was all too easy for them

18:01

to just fill in the blanks and put

18:04

blame on her. I don't think you'll find

18:06

many people that were in that intense

18:09

of the media eye whose

18:11

narrative was so incorrect. To

18:14

many, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy is most

18:16

remembered not for her life but

18:18

her stylish looks. Beller

18:20

hopes to change that. One

18:23

friend, when the accident happened, said that the

18:25

people who knew her well were sad that she would

18:27

be remembered as a fashion icon because

18:30

she should be remembered for her warmth, for

18:32

her friendship, for her humor. And I hope

18:34

that's what sticks out. Our

18:39

thanks to Deborah. Coming up,

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Customers hungry for deals as prices

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