TWA Flight 800 * Griffith, Donna, Westhampton, N.Y. Careers. * Maresq, Nicolas, France A former TWA flight attendant herself, Lychner was taking her daughters Shannon, 10, and Katie, 8, to France to see the gardens that inspired Claude Monet's paintings (Shannon had just begun to copy the masterpieces at home). In reality, it is a very slow and tedious process. In an effort to test the mechanical failure scenario, NTSB investigators will examine the area around the tank, where fumes could have ignited and exploded during flight, according to officials. * Watson, Jill, 32, architect, of Pittsburgh; daughter of ThermoKing president James F. Watson (father was not on the flight) Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Aikins-Bellamy, Sandra, 49; Queens, N.Y., off-duty TWA employee, Callas, Daniel, 22; Philadelphia, TWA flight crew, Charbonnier, Jacques, 66; Northport, N.Y., TWA flight crew, Christopher, Janet, 48; Brodheadsville, Pa., TWA flight crew, DiLuccio, Debra, 47; Agropoli, Italy, TWA flight crew, Dodge, Warren; Brentwood, N.Y., off-duty TWA employee, Gallagher, Claire; Montoursville, Pa., student, Griffith, Joanne, 39; Brooklyn, N.Y., off-duty TWA employee, Karschner, Amanda; Montoursville, Pa., student, Lang, Raymond, 51; Tafton, Pa., TWA flight crew, Lockhart, Maureen, 49; Merriam, Kan., TWA flight crew, Meade, Sandra, 42; Camano Island, Wash., TWA flight crew, Miller, Gideon, 57; Sarasota, Fla., off-duty TWA pilot, Nibert, Cheryl; Montoursville, Pa., student, Rupert, Judith; Montoursville, Pa., high school secretary, Schuldt, Michael, 51; Safety Harbor, Fla., TWA flight crew, Torche, Melinda, 47, Mission Viejo, Calif., TWA flight crew, Uzupis, Larissa; Montoursville, Pa., student, Ziemkiewicz, Jill, 24; Rutherford, N.J., TWA flight crew. What caused it, we don't know.". Of the 230 passengers and crew believed killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800, searchers have found 100 bodies so far, and the Suffolk County medical examiners office * Rogers, Kimberly, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Darley, Francois, Grenoble, France (married * Hansen, Lars, Groenbakken, Norway * Richter, Annelyse, Brousse, France (mother of Jay Carven) And no one is very comfortable going there, so close to the place where that happened, and just sitting and relaxing and playing volleyball." ""I have no words. ""I mean, these were people you had just seen two days ago,'' said Shelby Dingler, 20. America watched on the night of July 17, 1996 as orange flames from the downed airliner streaked the Atlantics choppy surface, just a few miles off the coast of Fire Island. Each one of these kids was unique, she said. * Paquet, Ingrid, France to Patricia Anderson) Almost everyone knew one of the students.. Two Coast Guard crew members who spent two days and nights pulling bodies from the ocean were so traumatized by what they had seen and touched that they were in serious emotional distress, according to local watermen who know them. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Once victims are identified, investigators will plot them and their detailed injuries atop a seating chart of Flight 800 provided by TWA to determine if the pattern of injuries explains the nature of the explosion that caused the crash. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. * Silverman, Jamie, 15, of Los Angeles (daughter of Eugene and Marietta Silverman) (niece of Anna Maria Shorter) Of the 230 passengers and crew believed killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800, searchers have found 100 bodies so far, and the Suffolk County medical examiners office had positively identified 46 by Sunday evening. MeSH Hurd, James III, manager of a family automotive shop in Glen Burnie, Md. Customers have virtually disappeared from Larry's Crab House, a festive restaurant with a deck and volleyball court adjacent to a marina on Moriches Bay. Emotions fresh 25 years after Flight 800 tragedy sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal * Fry, Carol, former school board member, Montoursville, Pa. There were also 17 off-duty TWA employees, the airline said. Chrysou K, Halat G, Hoksch B, Schmid RA, Kocher GJ. WebAnalysis of victims' autopsies revealed that as many as 47 of the 230 people on board the 747 may not have been killed instantly by the explosion that felled the plane. * Gabor, Daniel, 27, ran middle-distances for University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Walnut Creek, Calif. The Week in Photos: California exits pandemic emergency amid a winter landscape, Column: Did the DOJ just say Donald Trump can be held accountable for Jan. 6? Background: MOST of the 230 people aboard TWA Flight 800 were killed quickly in mid air by "phenomenal whiplash" when the plane exploded, the medical examiner (coroner) said yesterday. THE COINER WOMEN WERE A talented twosome. The purpose of the present study, which represents the first analysis of aviation injuries incurred during a midflight incident, was to examine the injuries sustained by the victims of the TWA Flight 800 disaster and to determine any correlation of injuries with structural damage and seat location. FBI officials have said that the bodies of passengers seated in the front of the plane suffered more damage than those people riding in the rear of the aircraft. an instant loss of consciousness.". ""He called me from the pay phone in the airport and asked me to marry him,'' Snow says. Story, William R. , president and chief executive officer of National American Insurance Co. of California. * Gasq, Francis, Palm Harbor, Fla. Luggage and wiring and food and seats and fuel and pillows and blankets and peeled-off sections of the fuselage were scattered for miles on the ocean surface and across its sandy floor. 8600 Rockville Pike * Michel, Pascal, Montpellier, France Cashman drew comfort by helping to build a monument to the TWA 800 victims atop a sand dune overlooking the beach at Long Islands Smith Point State Park. Skip Pulcrano, a retired cheerleading coach from New Jersey, helps Sharon Goss place a flower in the ground in the memorial park in Montoursville for the victims of TWA Flight 800. The TWA flight attendants met 21 years ago when they were working a Paris-to-New York flight together, and they had flown as a team ever since. The .gov means its official. An official website of the United States government. Just before he boarded the plane, he stopped to make one phone call. He began his career as a protg of Andy Warhol's, honing his visual sense by working at Warhol's famed Factory studio and going antiquing with the father of pop art. * Carven, Paula, off-duty TWA flight attendant and part-time real-estate agent, of Bel Air, Md. A quarter-century later, Whitman said she is still troubled by the loss of life on TWA Flight 800. Was it a meteor? As the Emmy-winning executive producer of ABC Sports, O'Hara, 39, oversaw all the network's sports broadcasts, including ""Monday Night Football'' and ""Wide World of Sports.'' (AP Photo/ Ed Betz)ASSOCIATED PRESS. Evidence indicated the explosion was the result of an electrical failure that ignited the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. Mike Kelly is an award-winning columnist for NorthJersey.com. Her husband, Philippe, is president of Eastern Industrial Minerals in Brunswick, Ga. List of Victims Identified From TWA Flight 800 | AP News Was this an act of terrorism, perhaps the kind of suitcase bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988? * Nibert, Cheryl, student from Montoursville, Pa. We grew up together. PAM LYCHNER DESCRIBED HERSELF AS A ""very weak person'' before she was attacked in 1990 by a man who had already been twice convicted for sexually assaulting other women. They flew the New York-Paris route, one of their favorites, as often as five times a month, departing on Wednesdays and returning home to Northport, N.Y., on Sundays. "You would see ripping, shredding and tearing of bodies" from a bomb in the cabin, he said. Yee, Judith, 53, former personnel executive with Bristol-Myers Corp., of New York City. * Brooks, Edwin, 81, former executive vice president of Taco Industries, of Edgartown, Mass. * Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast "We can empathize and feel sorry for the families, but we still have a job to do. * Straus, Carine, Paris. * Melotin, Grace, 48, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Corona, N.Y.; Jupiter, Fla. After it happened she's been kind of melancholy, but every year she gets a little teary. Jez said her daughter had a bright future ahead of her. But mostly they were silent, huddling together and vainly attempting to turn raw emotions into words. * Olsen, Rebecca Jane, 20, junior history major at University of Georgia, of Macon, Ga. Investigators say the plane broke up at 13,700 feet, then burst into flames at 9,000 feet, falling into the Atlantic just east of Long Island. * Breistroff, Michel, 25, French hockey player who graduated from Harvard in 1995 Because the plane was loaded with fuel for the long transatlantic journey, it vaporized within moments, creating a fireball seen almost all along the coastline of Long Island. TWA 800 Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies The reports are being sought by the families for legal purposes. * Lucien, Dalila, 17, daughter of jazz singer Jon Lucien and niece of saxophone player Wayne Shorter, who were not on the flight. For several months thereafter, the NTSB will thoroughly document the reconstruction using various 3-D scanning techniques. TWA Flight 800 did not take off until around 8:30 p.m. Just after 5 p.m., Jill phoned her mother in Rutherford. TWA Flight 800 * Miller, Kyle, 29, hardware store co-owner, of Andreas, Pa. (married to Amy Miller; their trip was to celebrate fifth wedding anniversary) * Silverman, Marietta (Etta) , 53 (married to Eugene Silverman, mother of Candace and Jamie) So far, Wetli said he cannot rule out a bomb as the cause, but he said he has found no evidence of one, such as metal and bomb parts trapped in bodies. The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial is located at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, Long Island, New York. *Bluestone, Nicolas, Pound Ridge, N.Y. They ask about shoe size and even type of shoes, since some victims were found with shoes still on. * Harris, Lawrence, New York * Loo, Patricia, 55, retired researcher for the pharmacological firm Ciba-Geigy, of Springfield, N.J. Her assailant was sent to jail, but after serving only two years of a 20-year sentence, he became eligible for parole. ""I told him yes.'' government site. * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. My family will never be the same.. ""It doesn't happen in a town like Montoursville, you know?''. Whenever they turn on their televisions, the oceanfront resort of East Moriches is associated not with pleasure but with the horror of the Flight 800 crash, since it is the community closest to the crash site 10 miles south in the ocean. Wreckage of TWA Flight 800 to be destroyed 25 years after crash * Christopher, Janet, 48, TWA flight 800 crew, of Brodheadsville, Pa. She was overseeing the renovation of her Manhattan home, but her children were vacationing at the family's summer place in Hericy, France. * Dickey, Douglas, of Williamsport, Pa. (married to Deborah Dickey) * Loudenslager, Jody, Trout Run, Pa. -- Schuldt, Mike, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor. The autopsies had not found any physical or chemical evidence on the victims' bodies that proved that a bomb brought down the jumbo jet with 230 people aboard, Wetli said. * Crandell, Pamela, 28, a first-grade teacher, of Tracy Landing, Md. Zara, Jean For three long days and nights, the people of Montoursville met at the school to reminisce about how Rupert and their other lost friends had touched their town. * Lockhart, Maureen, 49, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Merriam, Kan. It took months, but the remains of every victim were eventually found, aviation investigators said. Nothings ever the same, he said. Youre talking about kids who affected almost every aspect of the school, from drama to academics to athletics. Having a great time and then that happened, holy mackerel.". The Charbonniers were only two of several veteran TWA employees on board Flight 800. It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". National Transportation Safety Board 490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW Washington, DC 20594, Congressional and Regulatory Correspondence, In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-141, N93119. "You know, I can remember, I wasn't there but we have a picture of them lined up waiting for the bus to take them to the airport. The site is secure. Steven Snyder, 57, of Stratford, Conn., also had more than 30 years of service with the airline. JACK O'HARA WAS HAVING A TERRIBLE week. "There are 200 human beings who are now nonexistent, and those are people someone loved, and it could have been someone we loved. TWA Flight 800 grabbed the worlds attention when shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in July 1996, the Paris-bound Boeing 747 exploded, J Trauma. Daniel Baszczewski, 17, had nothing but A's on his report cards from first grade forward. "It's a matter of sensitivity," she said. "It's been a long time. * Miller, Elizabeth, in her 50s, of Tenafly, N.J. (married to Robert Miller) Below is a list of those on board, according to TWA Flight 800 victims' families still hurt 25 years after explosion FOIA Bedison said many Montoursville residents retreated into their own emotional privacy while also trying to make time to attend the funerals. New York's Pataki asks feds to help pay for TWA recovery, TWA 800 families to press airline for compensation, NTSB urges new fuel-tank safety measures for airlines, FBI probes reported sighting off New York coast, Department of Transportation - Research and Special Programs Administration, UMass Polymer Scientists Developing Fireproof Aircraft Materials for FAA. A critical analysis of the fatal injuries resulting from the Continental flight 1713 airline disaster: evidence in favor of improved passenger restraint systems. Then a photo of the daughter she lost 25 years ago when a majestic and seemingly indestructible commercial jetliner blew up over the Atlantic Ocean only minutes after lifting off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing all 230 passengers and crew. * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. The couple had planned to wed in a year. * Campbell, Richard G. , 63, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of Ridgefield, Conn. O'Hara's trip to Paris -- where he was going to spearhead coverage of the Tour de France bicycle race -- was to be his last assignment for the network. 2017 Apr 20;25(1):42. doi: 10.1186/s13049-017-0384-y. All 230 passengers of TWA Flight 800 were recovered as fatalities. Harkness, Eric, 23, off-duty TWA employee, of Columbus, Ohio. Lychner also helped persuade judges to let crime victims address their assailants in court after a guilty verdict. * DeLouvrier, Judith, 47, a philanthropist who was a trustee of her family's Philadelphia-based Connelly Foundation, of New York City * Wolfson, Eleanor, chaperone of Montoursville, Pa., school group (mother of Navy divers, meanwhile, cleared the area around two of the 747's engines. JED JOHNSON, 47, WAS FAST BECOMING one of the most acclaimed interior designers in the country. Capital, of Greenwich, Conn. An off-duty TWA pilot, Donald Gough of Mill Valley, Calif., and his wife, Ana, a TWA flight attendant, also were passengers. * Berthe, Line, Belleville, France Speculation fueled theories that a terrorist act had caused the crash that killed the 230 on board, but an investigation later concluded The scanned data will be archived for historical purposes. He said the explosion remains a mystery because "we still don't have the parts of the plane that we need to look at. PMC * Holst, Virginia, 31, merchandise distributor, Manorville, N.Y. (wife of Eric Holst) What Happened to TWA Flight 800? I'm so psyched!'' All 230 people on board died including 16 students and five chaperones from the Montoursville Area High School French Club headed to Paris. * Teang, Rachama-Chan, France * DiLuccio, Debra Collins, 47, TWA flight 800 crew, of Agropoli, Italy; formerly of Athens, Ga. She wasnt going to Versailles, Carol Ziemkiewicz now reasons. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help Eerie images of TWA Flight 800 in the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 1996. But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. Silverman, Eugene, 54, a Bel-Air, Calif., tax attorney (married to Marietta Silverman, father of Candace and Jamie) TWA Flight 800: 25-year anniversary of explosion marks new Select from premium Twa Flight 800 of the highest quality. Benjamin, Joan EVEN AFTER THE MYSTERY OF what happened to TWA Flight 800 is eventually solved, images of the 230 passengers who died in the crash will endure. Results: Bodies and debris have been carried far from the crash site by tides -- requiring searchers to cover more than 400 square miles of ocean -- and large sections of the 747 jetliner have sunk more than 100 feet, likely with many of the missing bodies inside. * Pohlmann, Rico, 62, fashion photographer, of New York City and Berlin * Lacailledesse, Antoine, France Johnson, Leonard, 53, mechanical engineer, of Springfield, Va. (married to Eleanor Johnson) His grave in Totowais now a shrine for those who want him proclaimed a Roman Catholic saint. For From that investigation we issued safety recommendations that fundamentally changed the way aircraft are designed. * Gaetke, Dan, 33, owned landscaping business and taught elementary school art; of Kansas City, Mo. Sometimes it seems like its yesterday. * Meade, Sandra, 42, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Camano Island, Wash. The garden, which is based on one of Jills designs as a budding landscape architect, features wind chimes a favorite of Jills and a fountain designed to replicate thesunflower, which was one of Jill's favorites. Snyder, Capt. "You'd better, or you're not going to be able to last.". TWA Flight 800 wreckage is * Wolters, Bonnie, 44, of New York City, a bond trader engaged to be married to a judge who was not on the flight but had planned to join her in France next week. (married Real Faces Of A Tragedy Charbonnier, Constance, 49, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. But our modern world, with television and social media, have brought those intimate moments of tragedy into our living rooms and to the cellular phones we carry in our pockets. He acknowledged that families of the victims are extremely impatient for their loved ones to be identified; 16 have been tentatively identified and the dentist colleague has been positively identified along with his wife traveling with him on Flight 800. TWA Flight 800 victims' families still hurt 25 years after explosion NATION Airplane Accidents and Disasters Add Topic 230 people perished when TWA Flight 800 All rights reserved. O'Hara, Caitlin, 13, of Irvington, N.Y. (daughter of Janet and John O'Hara). In this case, the victim was a Long Island dentist who had assisted forensic dentists in the medical examiner's office. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. * Romagna, Barbara, 76, of Sun City Center, Fla. Carven, Jay, 9, of Bel Air, Md. However, advances in investigative techniques such as 3-D scanning and drone imagery, lessen the relevance of the large-scale reconstruction in teaching modern investigative techniques. Despite continuing eyewitness reports, authorities did not come forward with any evidence of a missile or a bomb, and the investigation stretched on. She fell silent, her eyes reading the now-familiar sentiments of a poem, with this haunting stanza: Like a comet blazing cross the evening sky, gone too soon., Losing Jill was like everything inside me was gone, Ziemkiewicz said. "You know they were all good kids," Bogard said. At 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 left from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris. From ancient times, history has been pockmarked withsudden, unexpected tragedy that rips apart the lives of ordinary people. Disclaimer. * Caillaud, Anthony, Cerizay, France The But for those most closely affected, the wounds are still fresh. To report an incident/accident or if you are a public safety agency, please call 1-844-373-9922 or 202-314-6290 to speak to a Watch Officer at the NTSB Response Operations Center (ROC) in Washington, DC (24/7). . * Warren, Lani, 48, off-duty TWA flight service manager, San Diego, Calif. * Scott, Michael, 44, physicist, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Barbara Scott) "I believe they were all totally unconscious or dead by the time they hit the water," Wetli told The Associated Press. "There's a process called onioning,' where you can keep covering up the levels of trauma one on top of the other," said Louis Gallagher, coordinator of Suffolk County's community mental health response team who has been working 20-hour days counseling victims' families. This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. In all, Cashman and his father, Thomas, who was well known on Long Island as a shark fisherman, recovered four bodies that night, all of them women. (married to Ruth Brooks) J Trauma. The report on passenger Susan Hill, a Would you like email updates of new search results? The memorial, which also includes gardens, has flags from the 13 countries of the victims, a curved black granite memorial with the names of the victims engraved on one side and a wave releasing 230 seagulls on the other. Listen: WCBS interviews Mike Kelly about the 25th anniversary of TWA Flight 800. "As physicians, part of our training is being able to separate -- to empathize without sympathizing," said Wetli, who was deputy medical examiner in Dade County, Fla., during Hurricane Andrew. Was it an errant missile fired froma U.S. Navy ship? But subsequent investigations by the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board changed America. 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. * Caillaud, Daniel, Deux Sevres, France MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. As Michele Jez and her sister stood inside the General John Burrows Historical Society's Flight 800 memorial room in Montoursville, they stared at the faces of 21 people whose lives were cut way too short. The much-criticized Flight 800 investigation ended in late 1998, with investigators concluding that the explosion resulted from mechanical failure, not from a bomb or a missile., Wreaths and flowers float in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, July 17, 1997, at the location where TWA Flight 800 crashed one year ago, killing all 230 people on board. Analysis of the data revealed no global correlation between seat position and pattern of injury. * Cayrol, Jacques, Montpelier, France The NTSB Breistroff wanted to make sure that Snow, a New Yorker, would follow him to France as he pursued his dream one final time. * Miller, Robert, 62, Tenafly borough administrator, of Tenafly, N.J. (married to Elizabeth Miller). Forensic tests have not discovered traces of chemical substances that would indicate an explosive. What followed was unbelievable grief and anguish. Almost all the students who died were classic overachievers, the kind of model students that parents boast about to anyone who will listen. * Harris, Chelsea, New York, N.Y. "Mom I'm psyched. Literally, it was the shock., Jill Ziemkiewicz had just turned 23 in 1996 when she suspended her dream to be a landscape designer and signed up to become a TWA flight attendant after noticing an ad in a newspaper. ""In a business as tough as this one, he was truly one of the nice guys,'' says Larry Kamm, who had worked for many years with O'Hara. (married to Jay Anderson) They were people. * Simmons, Olivia, 50, schoolteacher and off-duty part-time TWA employee, Orange, N.J. * Chanson, Ludovic, 11, exchange student returning to family, of Garancieres, France He attracted an unusually eclectic, though uniformly wealthy, clientele, including Richard Gere, Mick Jagger and Yves Saint Laurent. * Nelson, Alecia, New York Lessons from a large trauma center: impact of blunt chest trauma in polytrauma patients-still a relevant problem. For Montoursville, a 4-square-mile speck of a town in central Pennsylvania with just 4,600 residents, the loss of 21 residents was a shock to the system. This is our history. Vacationer Joanne Bechhoff canceled a birthday party she had booked for tonight on the sandy volleyball court at the water's edge because she said she simply could not bear to be in a place so closely linked to such a huge tragedy. Murta, Angela. * D'Iorio, Pietro, waiter, of Prato, Italy. The reconstructed wreckage from TWA Flight 800 that exploded and killed 230 people in 1996 is being destroyed after serving as a teaching tool for crash investigators. J Trauma. GEORGIA -- Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta. Students, parents, teachers, clergymen -- there are only 5,000 people in this northern Pennsylvania hamlet, so it wasn't long before everyone knew that among the dead on Flight 800 were 16 students from the school's French Club and five adult chaperones. to Stephanie Gaetke) * Bohlin, Michelle, student from Montoursville, Pa. It was hard to accept, said Bedison, now retired from her job as a special education teacher and track and cross-country coach at Montoursville Area High School. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. 2000 May;48(5):987-8. doi: 10.1097/00005373-200005000-00035. * Hull, James, 48, off-duty TWA employee, of Southampton, Pa. Twa Flight 800 Premium High Res Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on.