* Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. * Loffredo, Elaine, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Glastonbury, Conn. * Shorter, Anna Maria, of Los Angeles, wife of saxophone player Wayne Shorter who was not on the flight (aunt of Dalila Lucien) Despite continuing eyewitness reports, authorities did not come forward with any evidence of a missile or a bomb, and the investigation stretched on. * Anderson, Patricia, 42, of Warson Woods, Mo. 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. * Wolfson, Wendy, student from Montoursville, Pa. (daughter of Eleanor Wolfson) Disaster, as is its wont, chose its victims mercilessly and indiscriminately when T.W.A. "That center part of the aircraft is of interest," said Francis. J Trauma. People should know that.. 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. Cashman, an electrician, jumped on his fathers fishing boat The Rogue on the night that TWA Flight 800 blew apart and crashed into the Atlantic. So was Judith Rupert, who graduated from Montoursville High in 1961 and worked as a school secretary for 34 years. -- Schuldt, Mike, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor. * Mazzola, Salvator, 36, of Palermo, Italy. * Dickey, Douglas, of Williamsport, Pa. (married to Deborah Dickey) 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. * Harris, Chelsea, New York, N.Y. * Thiery, Josette, France * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. 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. (sister of Chrisha Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) * Miller, Elizabeth, in her 50s, of Tenafly, N.J. (married to Robert Miller) * Ziemkiewicz, Jill, 24, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Rutherford, N.J. © Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. * Watson, Jill, 32, architect, of Pittsburgh; daughter of ThermoKing president James F. Watson (father was not on the flight) Passengers of Flight 800 sustained instantaneous fatal blunt force injury. (married (married to Christine Diiorio) While still recovering from the disappointment of missing the '94 team, Breistroff met Heidi Snow on Martha's Vineyard. The rest have been withheld pending notification of family members. Sitting beside him on the plane were his wife, Janet, and their 13-year-old daughter, Caitlin, who recently won the French prize at the Middle School in Irvington, N.Y. * Silverman, Candace, 22, of Los Angeles (daughter of Eugene and Marietta Silverman) ""It doesn't happen in a town like Montoursville, you know?''. PMC ""She always brightened my day.''. (married to Ghassan Haurani) * Cayrol, Jacques, Montpelier, France Some people say time heals all wounds. 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. National Library of Medicine Even today as she looks back, Bedison feels pained as she recalls the students who were lost and the towns collective grief. From Coast Guard crews who became physically ill as waves tossed their search boat to doctors performing autopsies and X-rays in an atmosphere described by one as "a horror movie turned real," the toll of the Flight 800 disaster became increasingly vivid today on its behind-the-scenes players. * Von Hedrich, Joseph, Bel Air, Md. Then, two more. Ralph Kevorkian, 58, of Garden Grove, Calif., and Capt. 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. * Crandell, Pamela, 28, a first-grade teacher, of Tracy Landing, Md. 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. Head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries were multiple and severe, contributing to the mortality of the occupants. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. Listen: WCBS interviews Mike Kelly about the 25th anniversary of TWA Flight 800. ""Change is good,'' he said in the memo he wrote to his staff. Then, he spotted a body. They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. Was it an errant missile fired froma U.S. Navy ship? 2012 Apr;83(4):412-7. doi: 10.3357/asem.3155.2012. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. * Berthe, Maurice, Belleville, 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. What Happened to TWA Flight 800? 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. * Gough, Analei Ralli, off-duty TWA flight attendant, of Mill Valley, Calif. (married to Donald Gough) "We've had marina customers afraid to come down," said co-owner Harvey Gessin. J Trauma. All rights reserved (About Us). Two other men in the cockpit, Capt. * Eshleman, Douglas A. , 35, off-duty TWA flight engineer, of Aurora, Colo. Benjamin, Joan The investigation also led to a memorandum of understanding between the FBI and the NTSB regarding investigations of accidents resulting from intentional acts as well as evidence collection and preservation. * Babb, David, 13, of Volant, Pa. (nephew of Clara and Namik Ersoz) 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. They were all together in front of the school and they were having a ball every day. (son of Paula Carven) What caused it, we don't know.". TWA Flight 800 did not take off until around 8:30 p.m. Just after 5 p.m., Jill phoned her mother in Rutherford. They fell in love. He also said some of the victims were found to have carbon pigments or water in their lungs. Conclusion: This is the account from history.com, Flight 800 had just received clearance to initiate a climb to cruise altitude when it exploded without warning. Instead, he said, there are blunt force trauma injuries, consistent with being struck by pieces of the jet as it fell from the sky after an explosion elsewhere in the plane. HAUPPAUGE, New York (CNN) -- The Suffolk County medical examiner has released the first autopsy report on the victims from TWA Flight 800. A lot of people have moved on, Carol said. Time just provides anesthesia.. * Hammer, Tracy, 29, graduate student in microbiology and veterinary medicine at Michigan State University, of Long Beach, N.Y. (daughter of Beverly Hammer) * Anderson, Seana Michele. "You'd better, or you're not going to be able to last.". The report on passenger Susan Hill, a homicide detective from Portland, Oregon, was received by her estate's Chicago attorney this week. * Notes, Gadi, 29, senior associate at investment banking division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., Israeli citizen; New York. Thirteen minutes after TWA flight 800 took off on an otherwise clear night, the plane was rocked by an explosion in a fuel tank near the wings. Murta, Angela. Time doesnt heal the wounds. 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. The plane, bound for Paris, exploded just after takeoff from New York, killing everyone on board. The O'Haras' twin 12-year-old sons stayed at home with their grandparents. She was overseeing the renovation of her Manhattan home, but her children were vacationing at the family's summer place in Hericy, France. 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. Below is a list of those on board, according to family, ", Ziemkiewicz reached for a stack of letters from Jills friends, then another photo album and more pictures. the victims either died instantly or were rendered unconscious when the plane exploded. O'Hara, Caitlin, 13, of Irvington, N.Y. (daughter of Janet and John O'Hara). ""I can't wait. 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. In Moriches, New York, Matthew Cashman also feels that need to remember the history of TWA Flight 800. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. * Cox, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. Officials believe the crash was caused by an explosive, a missile or mechanical failure. Eerie images of TWA Flight 800 in the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 1996. * Hochard, Jean-Pierre, France From ancient times, history has been pockmarked withsudden, unexpected tragedy that rips apart the lives of ordinary people. * Campbell, Richard G. , 63, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of Ridgefield, Conn. 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. The NTSB All rights reserved. * Dwyer, Larkyn, 11, of New River, Ariz., was en route alone to visit relatives in Paris, * Edwards, Daryl, 41, off-duty TWA service supervisor, Jersey City, N.J. Her Daughter Larissa Uzupis was one of the 21 people from Montoursville High School and one of the 230 people who boarded Trans World Airlines Flight 800 and didn't make it home. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, POOL)Associated Press. A quarter-century later, Whitman said she is still troubled by the loss of life on TWA Flight 800. The flowers, given by family members of victims, were placed in the ocean by a Coast Guard rescue craft crew as part of a memorial service. When it was revealed that several U.S. Navy vessels were training in the Long Island area on the night of the blast, some began to suspect that Flight 800 had been accidentally downed by a Navy test missile. Jez said her daughter had a bright future ahead of her. * Kevorkian, Capt. She was going heaven.. Their goal, they figured, was to rescue survivors. Results: * Griffith, Donna, Westhampton, N.Y. * Haurani, Dr. Ghassan, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. (married to Nina Haurani) * McPherson, Pamela Cobb, 45, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City Medical investigators were holding up remarkably well as they went about their gruesome work -- opening body bags, removing corpses, examining them in painstaking detail -- when a forensic dentist looked up from one of the bodies and told his colleagues: "I know this person.". The tragedy came just two days before the opening of the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and many suspected terrorism. To others, it is a somber, bureaucratic turning point in how America investigates air crashes. 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. The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. The TWA 800 aircraft was a 747-100 model, built and delivered in 1971. * Gabor, Daniel, 27, ran middle-distances for University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Walnut Creek, Calif. 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. Several friends from the town joined them. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. "There were injury patterns that indicated there was an explosion from below. 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. Thirteen minutes after TWA flight 800 took off on an otherwise clear night, the plane was rocked by an explosion, majestic and seemingly indestructible commercial jetliner blew, WCBS interviews Mike Kelly about the 25th anniversary of TWA Flight 800, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. * Charbonnier, Jacques, 66, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. 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. Ziemkiewicz opened a photo album, pausing at a snapshot of her and Jill sitting on the lap of a Macys Santa Claus when mother and daughter spent a day in Manhattan. The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). * 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. * Aikey, Jessica, student from Montoursville, Pa. An accomplished high school swimmer, her close friends called her "Jilly Fish.". He said some of them are afraid that debris or body parts will wash up. "She was already, even at 15 she had lists of colleges and rankings and ratings so she was really focused on her future," Jez said. * Michel, Pascal, Montpellier, France For several years she worked in the impressionist-art department at Sotheby's, the renowned auction house. government site. Almost all the students who died were classic overachievers, the kind of model students that parents boast about to anyone who will listen. From that investigation we issued safety recommendations that fundamentally changed the way aircraft are designed. There are no words.'' ", Later in the day, a second dentist emerged from the medical examiner's office and talked with composure about having helped identify his colleague. After all, so many boaters thought they saw streaks of light in the summer sky. * Warren, Lani, 48, off-duty TWA flight service manager, San Diego, Calif. * Wolfson, Eleanor, chaperone of Montoursville, Pa., school group (mother of The couple had planned to wed in a year. * Ersoz, Namik, 64, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Clara Ersoz, uncle of David Babb) to Patricia Anderson) * Lang, Raymond, 51, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Tafton, Pa. * Johnson, Eleanor, 50, retired vice president of editing firm, of Springfield, Va. (married to Leonard Johnson) * Chaillou, Jenny, France Traveling to France to study gardens with wife. I'm so psyched!'' 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. * Pohlmann, Rico, 62, fashion photographer, of New York City and Berlin The rookie, then-Gov. * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. 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. 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. Galland, Jean Paul * Dodge, Warren, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Brentwood, N.H., and Ashland, Mass. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? His grave in Totowais now a shrine for those who want him proclaimed a Roman Catholic saint. But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". * Grivet, Cyril, senior lab technician at Carnegie Institution lab at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. * DeLange, Sylvain, Paris Such basic policy changes, however, mean little to the families of those who lost mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren and friends. As a student of landscape architecture at Rutgers University, Jill longed to walk amid lush flowers and shrubs and clipped lawns at Versailles. At 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 left from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris. * Luevano, Jr., Elias, 42, off-duty TWA employee, of Albuquerque, N.M. * Bouhs, Leonie, France He also decided to sue Lychner, 37, for the emotional trauma the case had caused him. What once might have seemed distant and limited to people far away has now become far more personal. * Alex, Christian, France The plane had exploded 12 minutes after takeoff at JFK International Airport. "The plane was going at 400 m.p.h., it suddenly changes direction, the fuselage is open so all this air and pressure is going into the cabin, and there's a sudden decompression.". They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. "It's never very pleasant when you're in this field and you have to autopsy someone you know," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. Working with two other women, she helped establish Justice for All, a Houston-based organization that lobbies for victims' rights. * DeBoisredon, Cybele, Bordeaux, France * Lacailledesse, Antoine, France 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. Profiles M - Z. * Merieux, Rudolphe, son of the president of the pharmaceutical company Merieux Laboratories in Lyons, France (his father was not on the plane) 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.
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