* Privette, Glenda, 46, recently resigned as personnel manager at Beaulieu Carpet Plant in Bridgeport, Ala., of Stevenson, Ala. (mother of Thomas Weatherby) Silverman, Eugene, 54, a Bel-Air, Calif., tax attorney (married to Marietta Silverman, father of Candace and Jamie) But theres a big hole in the family.. * Scott, Barbara, 39, registered nurse, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Michael Scott) Carven, Jay, 9, of Bel Air, Md. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. * Gasq, Francis, Palm Harbor, Fla. 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. * Holst, Eric, 32, dentist, Manorville, N.Y. (husband of Virginia Holst) * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. * Kwan, Barbara, 40, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. We were born to be best friends.. * Anderson, J. Edward, 49, financial planner for Allmerica, of Warson Woods, Mo. Each one of these kids was unique, she said. Because this was his last trip, O'Hara planned to mix relaxation with business. Speculation fueled theories that a terrorist act had caused the crash that killed the 230 on board, but an investigation later concluded to Patricia Anderson) Careers. Background: 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.'' 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. Pathologists are meeting daily with family members, conducting interviews about minute details of the victims' bodies to help determine who is who. 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. * Ersoz, Namik, 64, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Clara Ersoz, uncle of David Babb) J Trauma. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. The Charbonniers were only two of several veteran TWA employees on board Flight 800. 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. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. He said some of them are afraid that debris or body parts will wash up. All rights reserved (About Us). Only no one was alive. * Maresq, Etienne, Planquary, France Sometimes it seems like an eternity, said Jills older brother, Matthew Ziemkiewicz, now the Bergen County deputy coordinator for emergency management. 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. * Richter, Noemie, Brousse, France Its dedicated to memorializing the lives and loss of the 16 Montoursville High School students and 5 chaperones killed aboard TWA Flight 800. As families of the lost passengers gathered at a hotel, we were introduced to the grace and kindness of a Franciscan priest the Rev. "That's where they're finding stuff. Well, kind of, Video shows Memphis jailers beating Black inmate before his death. * Becker, Michelle, 19, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, of St. Petersburg, Fla. 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. In memory of the victims, Montoursville erected a statue of an angel with hands extended to a monument with the names of the town's victims. * Remy, Jacqueline, France Matthew was already mourning the loss of his father a year earlier to a heart attack. * O'Hara, John, 39, executive producer at ABC Sports, of Irvington, N.Y. (husband of Janet O'Hara, father of Caitlin O'Hara) Before Disaster, as is its wont, chose its victims mercilessly and indiscriminately when T.W.A. *Bluestone, Nicolas, Pound Ridge, N.Y. 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. * Christopher, Janet, 48, TWA flight 800 crew, of Brodheadsville, Pa. * Lang, Raymond, 51, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Tafton, Pa. * Windmiller, Ruben, New Rochelle, N.Y. 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. * Paquet, Ingrid, France But mostly they were silent, huddling together and vainly attempting to turn raw emotions into words. * Loudenslager, Jody, Trout Run, Pa. * Charbonnier, Jacques, 66, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. 2023 www.northjersey.com. 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. Zara, Jean * Pohlmann, Rico, 62, fashion photographer, of New York City and Berlin Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Remains of 15 victims were never found. Almost everyone knew one of the students.. From ancient times, history has been pockmarked withsudden, unexpected tragedy that rips apart the lives of ordinary people. 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. "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. He also decided to sue Lychner, 37, for the emotional trauma the case had caused him. Remembering TWA flight 800 victims This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. 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. Feeney, Vera, 56, home-care nurse, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (mother of Dierdre Feeney) * Krikhan, Margot, 51, a bookkeeper at the Montessori School in Washington, Conn., of Brookfield, Conn. * Rhein, Kirk (Clyde) Jr. , 43, president and chief executive of the Danielson Holding Corp., an New York insurance company, and a partner in the New York investment firm Whitman, Heffernan, Rhein & Co., of Darien, Conn. * Chaillou, Jenny, France Capital, of Greenwich, Conn. 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. -- McPherson, 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.". * Hammer, Tracy, 29, graduate student in microbiology and veterinary medicine at Michigan State University, of Long Beach, N.Y. (daughter of Beverly Hammer) * Hettler, Rance, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. Im going to the garden, Jill excitedly told her mother a reference to the Gardens at Versailles palace just outside of Paris that was once home to French royalty and is now a museum. * Gray, Charles H. III, 47, president and chief operating officer of Midland Financial Group, Inc., of Little Rock, Ark. 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. A comparison of these injuries with those of takeoff and landing crashes showed differences in injury pattern and severity. . While still recovering from the disappointment of missing the '94 team, Breistroff met Heidi Snow on Martha's Vineyard. * Coiner, Ana Duarte, 12, of Binghamton, N.Y. (Constance Coiner's daughter) * Hill, Susan, police detective in Portland, Ore. A tireless volunteer for several New York nonprofit programs, she was also an active member of the Connelly Foundation, a family philanthropy that made grants to education, arts and social-service organizations. I lost my heart, my soul, said Ziemkiewicz. PMC * Hull, James, 48, off-duty TWA employee, of Southampton, Pa. WebTrans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. * Lychner, Pamela, 37, prominent Texas crime victims rights advocate, of Houston (mother of Shannon and Katie Lychner). 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. Richey, Brent "I believe they were all totally unconscious or dead by the time they hit the water," Wetli told The Associated Press. All 230 passengers of TWA Flight 800 were recovered as fatalities. She was overseeing the renovation of her Manhattan home, but her children were vacationing at the family's summer place in Hericy, France. * Rupert, Judith, high school secretary, Montoursville, Pa. * Schuldt, Michael, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor, Fla. 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. The rookie, then-Gov. 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. Listen: WCBS interviews Mike Kelly about the 25th anniversary of TWA Flight 800. Donald, off-duty TWA pilot, of Mill Valley, Calif., and Incline Village, Nev. (married to Analei Gough) and transmitted securely. * Gough, Capt. Rose, Katrina M. , 26, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Critical analysis of injuries sustained in the TWA flight 800 midair disaster. 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. * Lohan, Britta, Barcelona, Spain Clicking on a highlighted name will take you to a short biography of that person. * Griffith, Donna, Westhampton, N.Y. 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. 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. * Anderson, Patricia, 42, of Warson Woods, Mo. Some, however, believe the plane was hit by a missile strike from a terrorist or an accidental launch by the U.S. Navy. The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. Story, William R. , president and chief executive officer of National American Insurance Co. of California. * DeLouvrier, Judith, 47, a philanthropist who was a trustee of her family's Philadelphia-based Connelly Foundation, of New York City * Teang, Rachama-Chan, France (married For several months thereafter, the NTSB will thoroughly document the reconstruction using various 3-D scanning techniques. The O'Haras' twin 12-year-old sons stayed at home with their grandparents. * Hogan, David, of Paris, a Virginia-born composer who studied at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore The Victim fragmentation patterns and seat location supplements crash data: American Airlines flight 587. 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.