* Luevano, Jr., Elias, 42, off-duty TWA employee, of Albuquerque, N.M. 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. After an exhaustive, four-year-long investigation, the NTSB determined the probable cause of the crash was an explosion in the center wing fuel tank. (married to Ghassan Haurani) Breistroff wanted to make sure that Snow, a New Yorker, would follow him to France as he pursued his dream one final time. CALVERTON, N.Y. (AP) _ The reconstructed wreckage of TWA Flight 800, towering above the hangar floor, has evoked a variety of responses from families of the 230 people killed when the jetliner exploded _ tears, prayers, stunned silence. "It's been a long time. Bogard was a former teacher at Montoursville High School during the time of the crash. ""She just commanded respect from elected officials and from the criminal-justice system,'' says Andrew Kahan, director of Houston's Crime Victims Office. He also decided to sue Lychner, 37, for the emotional trauma the case had caused him. In addition to the 18-member crew working the flight were 17 employees flying to Paris to meet another plane. * Omiccioli, Monica, 23, seamstress, of Fano, Italy (married to Mirko Buttaroni) For several months thereafter, the NTSB will thoroughly document the reconstruction using various 3-D scanning techniques. His co-workers and friends had hardly gotten used to the idea of his leaving when news of the disaster hit. * Alex, Christian, France * D'Iorio, Pietro, waiter, of Prato, Italy. 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. * Scott, Joseph, 13, of Stevenson, Ala. (son of Michael and Barbara Scott). For 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. Pathologists are meeting daily with family members, conducting interviews about minute details of the victims' bodies to help determine who is who. . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that killed 230 It opened on July 17, 2002. The rookie, then-Gov. 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. * Bohlin, Michelle, student from Montoursville, Pa. That determination still has not been made, and it's possible it never will be. * Kwiat, Kimberly, 26, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (sister of Patricia Kwiat) Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. 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Was this an act of terrorism, perhaps the kind of suitcase bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988? Bedison was a coach and teacher to several of the 16 students from the towns high school French Club who perished on TWA Flight 800. 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. * Griffith, Donna, Westhampton, N.Y. We followed the video footage of fishermen and recreational boaters who rushed to the scene from docks in the Moriches Inlet in the hope that some passengers and crew might survive. * Grimm, Julia, student from Montoursville, Pa. Methods: So far, most of the recovered bodies that pathologists are examining have been "relatively intact," said Wetli, but he emphasized that "relative" is itself a relative term. Price, Dennis, investment manager, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Peggy Price) It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. But his dream was to compete in the Olympics. * Ingenhuett, Lonnie, 43, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. * Jacquemot, Benoit, France "That's where they're finding stuff. "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. * Merieux, Rudolphe, son of the president of the pharmaceutical company Merieux Laboratories in Lyons, France (his father was not on the plane) An off-duty TWA pilot, Donald Gough of Mill Valley, Calif., and his wife, Ana, a TWA flight attendant, also were passengers. 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. * Hochard, Jean-Pierre, France 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. Later, we monitored the trail of conspiracy theories. * Chemtob, Monique, Los Angeles Nothings ever the same, he said. He said most have massive injuries, adding that it would be "irresponsible and inhumane" to allow families to see the victims, or even to see photographs of their bodies. * Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. Benjamin, Joan 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. * Breistroff, Michel, 25, French hockey player who graduated from Harvard in 1995 * Foster, Rod, 61, corporate pilot for Dassault Falcon Jet Co., of Sherman, Conn. * Hull, James, 48, off-duty TWA employee, of Southampton, Pa. * Charbonnier, Jacques, 66, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. An accomplished high school swimmer, her close friends called her "Jilly Fish.". Yee, Judith, 53, former personnel executive with Bristol-Myers Corp., of New York City. Analysis revealed that the severity of injury and anatomic injury pattern did not generally correlate with seating position or structural damage. Capital, of Greenwich, Conn. * Loffredo, Elaine, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Glastonbury, Conn. Carven, Jay, 9, of Bel Air, Md. 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. There was no conversation on the boat.. He said some of them are afraid that debris or body parts will wash up. * Chanson, Ludovic, 11, exchange student returning to family, of Garancieres, France Then, he spotted a body. * Gallagher, Claire, student from Montoursville, Pa. Ana Duarte Coiner) We did everything together, Carin said. Navy divers, meanwhile, cleared the area around two of the 747's engines. * Carven, Paula, off-duty TWA flight attendant and part-time real-estate agent, of Bel Air, Md. After it happened she's been kind of melancholy, but every year she gets a little teary. * Hill, Susan, police detective in Portland, Ore. They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. Aviat Space Environ Med. After a forensic dentist emerged visibly shaken from the medical examiner's office, saying it was difficult to settle himself Thursday night even after he was home and comfortably in his own bed, Wetli said that most members of his staff are tolerating the trauma well, thanks to years of training and experience. * Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast ""It doesn't happen in a town like Montoursville, you know?''. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the But TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996 was to be her coming-out party of sorts her first international flight. A quarter-century later, Whitman said she is still troubled by the loss of life on TWA Flight 800. Was it a meteor? After receiving his Harvard degree in biological anthropology last month, he was returning to France on Flight 800 to train with the French national team. The jetliner cracked and broke into several sections, then fell into the Atlantic. Los Angeles, Civilians flee embattled town of Bakhmut as Ukrainian pullout looms. GEORGIA -- Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta. * Watson, Jill, 32, architect, of Pittsburgh; daughter of ThermoKing president James F. Watson (father was not on the flight) * Braman-Mosberg, Rosemary, 47, off-duty TWA employee, of Hoboken, N.J. ""He was very successful, but you wouldn't know it.''. A critical analysis of the fatal injuries resulting from the Continental flight 1713 airline disaster: evidence in favor of improved passenger restraint systems. * Christopher, Janet, 48, TWA flight 800 crew, of Brodheadsville, Pa. (AP Photo/ Ed Betz)ASSOCIATED PRESS. Kallstrom said that three cargo bays have been located about 12 miles from the Long Island shore. 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. to Stephanie Gaetke) TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, bound for Paris, France with 230 people aboard, crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. . But mostly they were silent, huddling together and vainly attempting to turn raw emotions into words. But theres a big hole in the family.. Jacques, 66, a French national who was a paratrooper in the Algerian war, managed the attendants; Constance, 49, an avid watercolorist, worked on his crew. "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. 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. ""She always brightened my day.''. 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. "We said you're going with the family, you're not going on that trip. Over a door leading to a patio, a plaque said: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. * Berthe, Maurice, Belleville, France Working with two other women, she helped establish Justice for All, a Houston-based organization that lobbies for victims' rights. ""I have no words. * Babb, David, 13, of Volant, Pa. (nephew of Clara and Namik Ersoz) FOIA NEW YORK Andy Krukar boarded TWA Flight 800 with a diamond ring in his pocket, planning to place it on his fiancee's finger at the Eiffel Tower during a romantic weekend in Paris. Flight engineer Richard Campbell, 63, of Ridgefield, Conn., received his 30-year pin just two weeks before the crash. * Gough, Analei Ralli, off-duty TWA flight attendant, of Mill Valley, Calif. (married to Donald Gough) Fragments of a third engine have also been sighted, but the divers and sophisticated sonar equipment have yet to detect the jet's fourth engine. * Haurani, Nina, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., mother of four in their teens and early 20s. * Cox, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. (wife of Dan Gaetke, cousin of Chrisha and Brenna Siebert). The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial is located at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, Long Island, New York. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. He skated as an undergraduate at Harvard, taking some time off to play professionally in the North American minor leagues. It may have something to do with what happened here. The NTSB The National Transportation Safety Board determined the cause of the explosion was likely a short circuit that ignited fuel vapors as the pilots were shifting fuel to better balance the airplane. This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. Television news trucks swarmed the tiny community after the crash. Why is there an angel statue in the middle of the town? Bedison said. * Price, Peggy, United Airlines flight attendant, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Dennis Price) Also scattered in the surf or deep below were the bodies of the 230 victims. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. "It's like a car smashing into a brick wall at 400 m.p.h.," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. JED JOHNSON, 47, WAS FAST BECOMING one of the most acclaimed interior designers in the country. But for men and women untrained in dealing with trauma -- a group that includes thousands of vacationers who had come to this area for rest and restoration -- the pain of the crash is much harder to bear. Web733 Twa Flight 800 Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 733 Twa Flight 800 Premium High Res Photos Browse 733 twa flight 800 stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. 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. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. As a student of landscape architecture at Rutgers University, Jill longed to walk amid lush flowers and shrubs and clipped lawns at Versailles. * D'Alessandro, Anna, of Palo del Colle, Italy (married to Giuseppe Mercurio) * Caillaud, Daniel, Deux Sevres, France The O'Haras' twin 12-year-old sons stayed at home with their grandparents. 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 54-page transcript released Monday during the opening of federal hearings into the July 17, 1996, disaster was described by investigators as routine conversation, revealing nothing unusual leading up to the blast aboard the Paris-bound flight that killed all 230 people aboard. Dozens of people visited the memorial room to remember and reflect- including Maynard Bogard. * Windmiller, Ruben, New Rochelle, N.Y. Below is a list of those on board, according to * Graham, Steven, 38, a marketing director for the long-distance phone company Ameritel, of Napa, Calif. Suspicions of foul play seemed to be confirmed when a number of eyewitnesses reported that they had seen what appeared to be a missile shoot up toward the airline an instant before the explosion. Remains of 15 victims were never found. Traveling to France to study gardens with wife. He said the explosion remains a mystery because "we still don't have the parts of the plane that we need to look at. * Lockhart, Maureen, 49, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Merriam, Kan. For several years she worked in the impressionist-art department at Sotheby's, the renowned auction house. The National Transportation Safety Board report of the investigation was applied to correlate individual injuries with seat location and structural damage. We were staring at this massive debris field that was still on fire, Cashman recalled. Twenty-three years ago, the borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County suffered an unimaginable loss. I dont think thats true, said John Seaman of Albany, New York, who lost a niece aboard TWA Flight 800 and went on to lead a coalition of victims relatives who campaigned for airline safety. * Hazelton, Sandra, of Beachwood, Ohio, a high school French teacher taking her daughter to Paris as a college graduation gift. 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. ", Later in the day, a second dentist emerged from the medical examiner's office and talked with composure about having helped identify his colleague. 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. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, POOL)Associated Press. Time doesnt heal the wounds. 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. The .gov means its official. In her Point Pleasant Beach home, Carol Ziemkiewicz says she draws comfort from a garden in Lyndhurst that was built in Jills memory. So did conspiracy theorists and ordinary people who just wanted to offer some measure of comfort. Background: What followed was unbelievable grief and anguish. * Tofani, Mauro, 46, a cloth merchant, of Prato, Italy. 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. 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. "That center part of the aircraft is of interest," said Francis. TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, bound for Paris, France with 230 people aboard, crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. * Rhoads, Scott, 48, schoolteacher, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Marit Rhoads). * Lychner, Katherine, 8, of Houston (daughter of Pam Lychner) * Miller, Joan, Fairfield, Conn. JUDITH DELOUVRIER, 47, WAS CROSSING the Atlantic for the second time in four days. and transmitted securely. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. She spent considerable time taking her son Henry, 9, to ice-hockey games and her daughter, Isabelle, 7, to ballet classes. * Thiery, Josette, France Charbonnier, Constance, 49, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. In the spring, a local newspaper named her one of Binghamton's brightest students. * Krukar, Andrew, 40, an engineer at the Torrington Co. in Watertown, Conn., of Bridgewater, Conn. They fell in love. An exasperated Lychner finally fought back. Donald, off-duty TWA pilot, of Mill Valley, Calif., and Incline Village, Nev. (married to Analei Gough) But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. * Meade, Sandra, 42, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Camano Island, Wash. On those days, when she peruses the boxes with photographs and letters and poems about her daughter, Ziemkiewicz is reminded once again of what might have been. The cargo area has been the site of explosives in past bombings, including that of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. You move on. Example video title will go here for this video. * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. Records from the medical examiner's office also are being subpoenaed by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York for possible presentation to a grand jury, if investigators confirm the crash resulted from a criminal act. * Lacailledesse, Antoine, France * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. Bedisons son, then a high school senior, considered joining the French Club on its trip to Paris. * Campbell, Richard G. , 63, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of Ridgefield, Conn. But for those most closely affected, the wounds are still fresh. * LaForge, Alain, Hermelinghen, France "It's a matter of sensitivity," she said. "We can empathize and feel sorry for the families, but we still have a job to do. It took months, but the remains of every victim were eventually found, aviation investigators said. * Dodge, Warren, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Brentwood, N.H., and Ashland, Mass. 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). The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries were multiple and severe, contributing to the mortality of the occupants. When Jill Ziemkiewicz stepped into the fuselage of the Boeing 747 at JFK on that July night 25 years ago, she wore the TWA uniform a blue, knee-length skirt, a white blouse, a blue scarf knotted around her neck like a cowgirl. * Bower, Jordan, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Michel, Pascal, Montpellier, France 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. * Buttaroni, Mirko, 26, bank employee, of Fano, Italy (married to Monica Omiccioli). * Simmons, Olivia, 50, schoolteacher and off-duty part-time TWA employee, Orange, N.J. The seats, foreground, and the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 sit in a hangar in Calverton, N.Y., Monday, July 16, 2001. They were gone, Cashman said, as he recalled how the group carefully lifted each victim from the Atlantic, placing them side by side on the boats deck and covering them with blankets. All Rights Reserved. A comparison was performed against injury data from takeoff and landing incidents. * Ersoz, Namik, 64, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Clara Ersoz, uncle of David Babb) * Skojold, Kristina, Sweden But Watli has said since early in the investigation that he believes * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. All rights reserved (About Us). * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was also on the varsity tennis team. Sign up now for Good Morning, Pennsylvania, and get the most important headlines delivered free to your inbox by 6 a.m. Monday-Friday. It used to be that when July hit I would be upset, and just not even realize, then it would hit me but she's just become part of our life the way she is now," said Michele Jez, of Montoursville. * Penzer, Judy, 49, artist and muralist, Pittsburgh and Lawrence, N.Y. Lychner also helped persuade judges to let crime victims address their assailants in court after a guilty verdict. Nelson, Twyla, New York Her 12-year-old daughter, Ana Duarte-Coiner, was an overachiever as well. ""He called me from the pay phone in the airport and asked me to marry him,'' Snow says. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Just before he boarded the plane, he stopped to make one phone call. (married * Warren, Lani, 48, off-duty TWA flight service manager, San Diego, Calif.

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