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* Hill, Susan, police detective in Portland, Ore. * Kwiat, Patricia, 21, student at Notre Dame University, of Briarcliff, N.Y. (sister of Kimberly Kwiat), * Labys, Jane, 51, a real estate agent from Morgantown, W.Va. * Foulon, Didier, France Ralph G. , 58, TWA Flight 800 pilot, of Garden Grove, Calif. * Ingenhuett, Lonnie, 43, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. * Jacquemot, Benoit, France * Lamour, Yvon, France There were also 17 off-duty TWA employees, the airline said. Head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries were multiple and severe, contributing to the mortality of the occupants. But he chose another trip to Honduras as part of a science project. * O'Hara, John, 39, executive producer at ABC Sports, of Irvington, N.Y. (husband of Janet O'Hara, father of Caitlin O'Hara) Listen: WCBS interviews Mike Kelly about the 25th anniversary of TWA Flight 800. The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial is located at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, Long Island, New York. * Campbell, Richard G. , 63, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of Ridgefield, Conn. Twenty-three years ago, the borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County suffered an unimaginable loss. Silverman, Eugene, 54, a Bel-Air, Calif., tax attorney (married to Marietta Silverman, father of Candace and Jamie) Below is a list of those on board, according to family, 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). Was it a meteor? Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? That investigation also led to the equally important development of our Transportation Disaster Assistance division and the legislation in place today governing carrier responsibilities for family assistance in the wake of a transportation disaster, said Bryson. 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. ""It doesn't happen in a town like Montoursville, you know?''. * Lacailledesse, Antoine, France (married to Jay Anderson) All rights reserved. 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. * Hettler, Rance, student from Montoursville, Pa. But he is still troubled by what he saw on the night the jetliner crashed. Injuries were assessed by anatomic region and severity by using the Abbreviated Injury Scale. Rose, Katrina M. , 26, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Despite continuing eyewitness reports, authorities did not come forward with any evidence of a missile or a bomb, and the investigation stretched on. 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. * Silverman, Marietta (Etta) , 53 (married to Eugene Silverman, mother of Candace and Jamie) * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. It may have something to do with what happened here. 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. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. Investigators, meanwhile, said they would begin reconstructing the front section of the Boeing 747 in an effort to learn more about the cause of the crash. * Rio, Celine * Ersoz, Clara Jean, 59, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Namik Ersoz, aunt of David Babb). They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. Unnamed passenger flying with Elsie Ostachiewicz, * Paquet, Huguette, France Capital, of Greenwich, Conn. About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. "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.". * D'Alessandro, Anna, of Palo del Colle, Italy (married to Giuseppe Mercurio) "You don't want anybody to onion.". Then, two more. Sign up now for Good Morning, Pennsylvania, and get the most important headlines delivered free to your inbox by 6 a.m. Monday-Friday. The medical examiner, Dr. Charles Wetli, had to get permission from federal agencies investigating the crash before releasing it. * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. 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.". 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 TWA family was hit unusually hard by the crash. 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. Having a great time and then that happened, holy mackerel.". * Holst, Virginia, 31, merchandise distributor, Manorville, N.Y. (wife of Eric Holst) After all, so many boaters thought they saw streaks of light in the summer sky. * LaForge, Alain, Hermelinghen, France 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. * Maresq, Nicolas, France * Martin, Betty Ruth, 69, of Belleville, Ill. ""The biggest thing that happens here is football season,'' says senior Kevin Williams. * Wolfson, Wendy, student from Montoursville, Pa. (daughter of Eleanor Wolfson) 1996, the FBI opened the hangar Wednesday to reporters and victims families. and transmitted securely. Lychner's husband, Joe, had planned to join the family later. * Kwan, Barbara, 40, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. The .gov means its official. GEORGIA -- Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta. They were people. * Johnson, Jed, 47, interior designer, of New York. * Beatty, Charles, 50, senior systems engineer with the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va.; of Spotsylvania, Va. * Loudenslager, Jody, Trout Run, Pa. * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. Previous reports of commercial airline disasters have reviewed incidents occurring at takeoff and landing. * 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. You get better. * Graham, Steven, 38, a marketing director for the long-distance phone company Ameritel, of Napa, Calif. The report on passenger Susan Hill, a homicide detective from Portland, Oregon, was received by her estate's Chicago attorney this week. * Paquet, Ingrid, France * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. * Tofani, Mauro, 46, a cloth merchant, of Prato, Italy. Such basic policy changes, however, mean little to the families of those who lost mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren and friends. * Kwiat, Kimberly, 26, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (sister of Patricia Kwiat) * Harris, Lawrence, New York Family members left the following morning by bus to New York. * Rhoads, Marit, 48, TWA Flight 800 crew, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Scott Rhoads) * Chanson, Ludovic, 11, exchange student returning to family, of Garancieres, France She was a reporter on a children's television show and an accomplished pianist. 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. 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, * Charbonnier, Jacques, 66, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. He said the bodies will be identified through medical records and interview materials. * Miller, Elizabeth, in her 50s, of Tenafly, N.J. (married to Robert Miller) 8600 Rockville Pike An official website of the United States government. The reports are being sought by the families for legal purposes. * Rhoads, Scott, 48, schoolteacher, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Marit Rhoads). For Jills sister, Carin, who was only two years older, the loss was also devastating. 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. 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 plane, bound for Paris, exploded just after takeoff from New York, killing everyone on board. 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. "Mom I'm psyched. * Miller, Joan, Fairfield, Conn. SMITHTOWN, N.Y. Autopsies reveal that most passengers aboard the ill-fated TWA Flight 800 died almost immediately in the air, sparing them the long plunge into the ocean after the plane broke apart in midair, a coroner said Thursday. "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. It was surreal.. What Happened to TWA Flight 800? Its such an overwhelming tragedy, Whitman said in a recent interview. 26 years after Flight 800 crash, victims' friends, family still gather TWA Flight 800 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches on July 17, 1996. (married * Foster, Rod, 61, corporate pilot for Dassault Falcon Jet Co., of Sherman, Conn. 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. ""Change is good,'' he said in the memo he wrote to his staff. * D'Iorio, Pietro, waiter, of Prato, Italy. TWA Flight 800 did not take off until around 8:30 p.m. Just after 5 p.m., Jill phoned her mother in Rutherford. * Gabor, Daniel, 27, ran middle-distances for University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Walnut Creek, Calif. Traveling to France to study gardens with wife. 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. "That center part of the aircraft is of interest," said Francis. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. * Breistroff, Michel, 25, French hockey player who graduated from Harvard in 1995 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. Alexander, Matthew, 20, a student at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., traveling to Dijon, France, to study, of Florence, S.C. Lychner also helped persuade judges to let crime victims address their assailants in court after a guilty verdict. Weaver, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. A plastic bomb would not leave such traces, he emphasized. Breistroff wanted to make sure that Snow, a New Yorker, would follow him to France as he pursued his dream one final time. 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. Matthew was already mourning the loss of his father a year earlier to a heart attack. * Scott, Michael, 44, physicist, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Barbara Scott) * Holst, Eric, 32, dentist, Manorville, N.Y. (husband of Virginia Holst) The O'Haras' twin 12-year-old sons stayed at home with their grandparents. (niece of Anna Maria Shorter) * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. (married I lost my heart, my soul, said Ziemkiewicz. * Siebert, Chrisha, 28, taught theater at Rockhurst College, of Kansas City, Mo. * Babb, David, 13, of Volant, Pa. (nephew of Clara and Namik Ersoz) All 230 people on board the Boeing 747 were killed when the New York-to-Paris flight exploded and plunged into the Atlantic on July 17. ""She always brightened my day.''. 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. * Lychner, Katherine, 8, of Houston (daughter of Pam Lychner) MeSH * Johns, Courtney, 18, recent graduate of Marian High School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., who planned to attend Villanova University in the fall, of Clarkston, Mich. FOIA In Moriches, New York, Matthew Cashman also feels that need to remember the history of TWA Flight 800. * DeBoisredon, Cybele, Bordeaux, France Disaster, as is its wont, chose its victims mercilessly and indiscriminately when T.W.A. 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. * Loo, Patricia, 55, retired researcher for the pharmacological firm Ciba-Geigy, of Springfield, N.J. family, friends or officials (ages and occupations given where 1994 Nov;37(5):826-30. doi: 10.1097/00005373-199411000-00020. * Richter, Noemie, Brousse, France * Griffith, Donna, Westhampton, N.Y. (married to Ruth Brooks) For * Darley, Francois, Grenoble, France Jez said her daughter had a bright future ahead of her. The 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. 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. Lessons from a large trauma center: impact of blunt chest trauma in polytrauma patients-still a relevant problem.