Was it a meteor? 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. * Orman, Alan, New Hyde Park, N.Y. Flight 800 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. A picture of her daughter Jill sat on a nearby table a friendly smile with wide, inviting eyes. TWA Flight 800 victims' families still hurt 25 years after explosion They were all together in front of the school and they were having a ball every day. * Darley, Francois, Grenoble, France They fell in love. * Pohlmann, Rico, 62, fashion photographer, of New York City and Berlin * McPherson, Pamela Cobb, 45, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City The tragedy came just two days before the opening of the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and many suspected terrorism. (sister of Brenna Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) TWA Flight 800: 25-year anniversary of explosion marks new As a student of landscape architecture at Rutgers University, Jill longed to walk amid lush flowers and shrubs and clipped lawns at Versailles. ""She always brightened my day.''. Nelson, Twyla, New York "That's where they're finding stuff. Meshulam, Avishaim (sister of Chrisha Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) A lot of people have moved on, Carol said. * Scott, Barbara, 39, registered nurse, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Michael Scott) The report on passenger Susan Hill, a This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. . They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. Christine Todd Whitman said in a eulogy. "There are 200 human beings who are now nonexistent, and those are people someone loved, and it could have been someone we loved. "It's like a car smashing into a brick wall at 400 m.p.h.," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. * Watson, Jacqueline, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. Not only was TWA 800 one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history, it also raised questions about how America responds to conspiracies, how our government monitors the maintenance of aging commercial jetliners and how we treat relatives of victims. IN 1994 MICHEL BREISTROFF, 25, WAS THE last defenseman cut from the French Olympic ice-hockey team. * Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. It's no more emotionally stressful than a doctor who deals every day with childhood leukemia. Hurd, James III, manager of a family automotive shop in Glen Burnie, Md. "I believe they were all totally unconscious or dead by the time they hit the water," Wetli told The Associated Press. * Hettler, Rance, student from Montoursville, Pa. Tribune news services contributed to this report. TWA 800 2000 May;48(5):987-8. doi: 10.1097/00005373-200005000-00035. * Harris, Lawrence, New York Johnson, Leonard, 53, mechanical engineer, of Springfield, Va. (married to Eleanor Johnson) ""It doesn't happen in a town like Montoursville, you know?''. * Chanson, Ludovic, 11, exchange student returning to family, of Garancieres, France JACQUES AND CONSTANCE CHARBONNIER fell in love on an airplane. The Montoursville group was Jessica Aikey, Daniel Baszczewski, Michelle Bohlin, Jordan Bower, Monica Cox, Deborah Dickey (chaperone), Douglas Dickey (chaperone), Carol Fry (chaperone), Claire Gallagher, Julia Grimm, Rance Hettler, Amanda Karschner, Jody Loudenslager, Cheryl Nibert, Kim Rogers, Judith Rupert (chaperone), Larissa Uzupis, Jacqueline Watson, Monica Weaver, Eleanor Wolfson (chaperone) and Wendy Wolfson. * Miller, Amy, 29, hardware store comptroller, of Andreas, Pa. (married to Kyle Miller) But on the day before the crash, he joined the growing list of employees laid off by ABC as it prepares to merge with Disney. (son of Paula Carven) The rookie, then-Gov. To honor this agreement made with the families of the victims of TWA Flight 800, the NTSB will work closely with a federal government contractor to dismantle the reconstruction and destroy the wreckage. Dozens of people visited the memorial room to remember and reflect- including Maynard Bogard. * Dupont, Guy, France Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. "It's been a long time. (married * Gallagher, Claire, student from Montoursville, Pa. Carven, Jay, 9, of Bel Air, Md. One dead, two hospitalized after crash in Lackawanna County. The suspension prolonged an already arduous search. "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. Rance Hettler, 18, played football, basketball and baseball and was the district track champion, but he still found time to work on Students Against Drunk Driving and the History Club. Snyder, Capt. JUDITH DELOUVRIER, 47, WAS CROSSING the Atlantic for the second time in four days. The names of 210 victims identified from TWA Flight 800: Aikens-Bellamy, Sandra, New York Aikey, Jessica, Montoursville, Pa. Alex, Christian, France Allen, Otis Lamar, Marietta, Ga. Amlund, Svein, Norway Anderson, Jule, Warson Woods, Mo. The medical examiner has released the names of 32 victims who have been identified. * Lucien, Dalila, 17, daughter of jazz singer Jon Lucien and niece of saxophone player Wayne Shorter, who were not on the flight. Select from premium Twa Flight 800 of the highest quality. * Allen, Otis Lamar, of Marietta, Ga. (father of Ashton Allen). He skated as an undergraduate at Harvard, taking some time off to play professionally in the North American minor leagues. Harkness, Eric, 23, off-duty TWA employee, of Columbus, Ohio. Officials called off the search as Coast Guard crews were attempting to retrieve what they believed was a significant piece of wreckage, based on sonar detection and a bubbling pool of jet fuel at the ocean's surface. ""Change is good,'' he said in the memo he wrote to his staff. 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. The scanned data will be archived for historical purposes. "You'd better, or you're not going to be able to last.". Until now, the autopsy reports have been withheld pending an official determination of what caused the explosion. Emotions fresh 25 years after Flight 800 tragedy All Rights Reserved. 1993 Feb;34(2):282-4. doi: 10.1097/00005373-199302000-00019. government site. But subsequent investigations by the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board changed America. Evidence indicated the explosion was the result of an electrical failure that ignited the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. His grave in Totowais now a shrine for those who want him proclaimed a Roman Catholic saint. "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. * Krikhan, Margot, 51, a bookkeeper at the Montessori School in Washington, Conn., of Brookfield, Conn. The .gov means its official. From ancient times, history has been pockmarked withsudden, unexpected tragedy that rips apart the lives of ordinary people. In the spring, a local newspaper named her one of Binghamton's brightest students. 1996, the FBI opened the hangar Wednesday to reporters and victims families. . 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. 8600 Rockville Pike Even as trauma specialists comforted the families of victims at Kennedy airport, they have been attending carefully to the search teams, pathologists and investigators exposed to the human horrors being pulled from the ocean. * D'Alessandro, Anna, of Palo del Colle, Italy (married to Giuseppe Mercurio) (married to Ghassan Haurani) All rights reserved (About Us). * Gabor, Daniel, 27, ran middle-distances for University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Walnut Creek, Calif. 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. The seats, foreground, and the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 sit in a hangar in Calverton, N.Y., Monday, July 16, 2001. ""He called me from the pay phone in the airport and asked me to marry him,'' Snow says. THE CRASH OF TWA FLIGHT 800: THE VICTIMS Sun Sentinel * Scott, Michael, 44, physicist, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Barbara Scott) An asterick (*) next to a name indicates that the person has been positively identified. Flight 800 Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? Twa Flight 800 Premium High Res Such is the complicated, enduring legacy of TWA Flight 800. Her assailant was sent to jail, but after serving only two years of a 20-year sentence, he became eligible for parole. Price, Dennis, investment manager, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Peggy Price) While still recovering from the disappointment of missing the '94 team, Breistroff met Heidi Snow on Martha's Vineyard. Silverman, Eugene, 54, a Bel-Air, Calif., tax attorney (married to Marietta Silverman, father of Candace and Jamie) But even though we're physicians, we're still human. * Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast An exasperated Lychner finally fought back. Remembering the victims of Flight 800 * Price, Peggy, United Airlines flight attendant, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Dennis Price) What once might have seemed distant and limited to people far away has now become far more personal. Only no one was alive. About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. Feeney, Vera, 56, home-care nurse, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (mother of Dierdre Feeney) 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. Wendy Wolfson) "It's a matter of sensitivity," she said. The TWA 800 aircraft was a 747-100 model, built and delivered in 1971. He said the bodies will be identified through medical records and interview materials. I havent.. It turned out that TWA 800 fell because sparks from a defective wire ignited vapors in a fuel tank, which then exploded. Clicking on a highlighted name will take you to a short biography of that person. She also remembers her daughters last words. "Mom I'm psyched. A soft-spoken man in a world dominated by hyperbole and high tension, he took the dismissal in typically level-headed style. The TWA family was hit unusually hard by the crash. Conclusion: But no matter how many magazines featured his work, his friends -- including childhood neighbor Joan Lunden of ""Good Morning America'' -- say Johnson never lost his sweet, self-effacing shyness. * Coiner, Ana Duarte, 12, of Binghamton, N.Y. (Constance Coiner's daughter) * Omiccioli, Monica, 23, seamstress, of Fano, Italy (married to Mirko Buttaroni) There were also 17 off-duty TWA employees, the airline said. * Loffredo, Elaine, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Glastonbury, Conn. Analysis of injuries following the crash of Avianca Flight 52. * DiLuccio, Debra Collins, 47, TWA flight 800 crew, of Agropoli, Italy; formerly of Athens, Ga. * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. Collections; People stand outside the Suffolk County morgue where TWA Flight 800 victims were taken July 18, 1996 in Long Island, NY.
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