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* Brooks, Edwin, 81, former executive vice president of Taco Industries, of Edgartown, Mass. 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. Conclusion: Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta, Ga. Disaster, as is its wont, chose its victims mercilessly and indiscriminately when T.W.A. NTSBs TWA Flight 800 Reconstruction to be Decommissioned Ana Duarte Coiner) * Scott, Joseph, 13, of Stevenson, Ala. (son of Michael and Barbara Scott). There are no words.'' * Eshleman, Douglas A. , 35, off-duty TWA flight engineer, of Aurora, Colo. * Nelson, Alecia, New York Background: "You get a little used to it," he said. Losing Jill was a shock that never wore off. JACQUES AND CONSTANCE CHARBONNIER fell in love on an airplane. Twenty-three years ago, the borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County suffered an unimaginable loss. But TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996 was to be her coming-out party of sorts her first international flight. * Ersoz, Clara Jean, 59, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Namik Ersoz, aunt of David Babb). "That's where they're finding stuff. * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. * Von Hedrich, Joseph, Bel Air, Md. Feeney, Vera, 56, home-care nurse, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (mother of Dierdre Feeney) List of Victims Identified From TWA Flight 800 | AP News ""He was very successful, but you wouldn't know it.''. CAPTION: A flower shop sign on Highway 25 outside East Moriches carries sentiments felt by many along the south shore of Long Island, closest land to crash site. 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. A statue of an angel stands watch in a memorial for 16 Montoursville High School students and their five chaperones who were killed in 1996 when TWA Flight 800 crashed. She also remembers her daughters last words. Its still raw, he said Just talking about it now makes me feel like it happened yesterday.. "That center part of the aircraft is of interest," said Francis. 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. The NTSB Investigators say the plane broke up at 13,700 feet, then burst into flames at 9,000 feet, falling into the Atlantic just east of Long Island. Having a great time and then that happened, holy mackerel.". 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. In the mid-'70s, Johnson oversaw the redecoration of Warhol's Manhattan town house -- each room done in a different, museum-quality period style -- and his career was launched. 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. Charbonnier, Constance, 49, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. 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. 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. * Callas, Dan J. , 22, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Philadelphia * Gaetke, Stephanie, 33, owned landscaping business; of Kansas City, Mo. T.W.A 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. Some of the 196 bodies found so far did contain shrapnel, he said. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. Remembering the Montoursville high school victims of TWA Flight 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. Time doesnt heal the wounds. * Verhaeghe, Rick L. , off-duty TWA flight officer, 48, Goldsboro, N.C. He also decided to sue Lychner, 37, for the emotional trauma the case had caused him. 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. * Foulon, Didier, France Just before he boarded the plane, he stopped to make one phone call. * Dupont, Guy, France . * Becker, Michelle, 19, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Weaver, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. Injuries were assessed by anatomic region and severity by using the Abbreviated Injury Scale. * Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. to Patricia Anderson) * DeLange, Sylvain, Paris Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. * Buttaroni, Mirko, 26, bank employee, of Fano, Italy (married to Monica Omiccioli). Then, two more. The trip to France was a reward to herself for a wonderful year, one that included the finishing of her second book. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. Among the families of the 215 victims whose bodies were recovered, about 80 have sought the official explanation of how and when they died, Wetli said. * Lucien, Dalila, 17, daughter of jazz singer Jon Lucien and niece of saxophone player Wayne Shorter, who were not on the flight. 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. * Olsen, Rebecca Jane, 20, junior history major at University of Georgia, of Macon, Ga. In reality, it is a very slow and tedious process. Critical analysis of injuries sustained in the TWA flight 800 midair disaster. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, POOL)Associated Press. * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. 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. * Wolfson, Wendy, student from Montoursville, Pa. (daughter of Eleanor Wolfson) * Baszczewski, Daniel, student from Montoursville, Pa. List of Identified Remains of Victims of TWA Flight 800 . For Some, however, believe the plane was hit by a missile strike from a terrorist or an accidental launch by the U.S. Navy. 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. 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. * D'Alessandro, Anna, of Palo del Colle, Italy (married to Giuseppe Mercurio) His training was informal, but priceless. she gushed to her mother on the phone an hour before takeoff. 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. * Fry, Carol, former school board member, Montoursville, Pa. TWA Flight 800: 25-year anniversary of explosion marks new Alexander, Matthew, 20, a student at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., traveling to Dijon, France, to study, of Florence, S.C. * Gough, Capt. * O'Hara, John, 39, executive producer at ABC Sports, of Irvington, N.Y. (husband of Janet O'Hara, father of Caitlin O'Hara) * Krikhan, Margot, 51, a bookkeeper at the Montessori School in Washington, Conn., of Brookfield, Conn. Cashman drew comfort by helping to build a monument to the TWA 800 victims atop a sand dune overlooking the beach at Long Islands Smith Point State Park. "I believe they were all totally unconscious or dead by the time they hit the water," Wetli told The Associated Press. * Hull, James, 48, off-duty TWA employee, of Southampton, Pa. Such is the complicated, enduring legacy of TWA Flight 800. TWA Flight 800 wreckage to be destroyed years after explosion Profiles M - Z. * Babb, David, 13, of Volant, Pa. (nephew of Clara and Namik Ersoz) 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. A comparison of these injuries with those of takeoff and landing crashes showed differences in injury pattern and severity. Breistroff wanted to make sure that Snow, a New Yorker, would follow him to France as he pursued his dream one final time. Sometimes it seems like its yesterday. But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. One dead, two hospitalized after crash in Lackawanna County. I'm so psyched!'' IDENTIFYING THE VICTIMS: HORROR AGAINST "It's like a car smashing into a brick wall at 400 m.p.h.," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. 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. * Bohlin, Michelle, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Simmons, Olivia, 50, schoolteacher and off-duty part-time TWA employee, Orange, N.J. * Pares, Serge, New Haven, Conn. Wendy Wolfson, 16, had just returned from New York, where she performed her own piano compositions at Carnegie Hall. * Chaillou, Jenny, France 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. O'Hara, Caitlin, 13, of Irvington, N.Y. (daughter of Janet and John O'Hara). (AP Photo/ Ed Betz)ASSOCIATED PRESS. Remains of 15 victims were never found. * Johnson, Jed, 47, interior designer, of New York. 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. 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. (niece of Anna Maria Shorter) * Hochard, Jean-Pierre, France Despite continuing eyewitness reports, authorities did not come forward with any evidence of a missile or a bomb, and the investigation stretched on. News media flooded the area. ", Ziemkiewicz reached for a stack of letters from Jills friends, then another photo album and more pictures. A plastic bomb would not leave such traces, he emphasized. An official website of the United States government. * Hettler, Rance, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Price, Peggy, United Airlines flight attendant, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Dennis Price) Some of the mourners wept quietly. "You'd better, or you're not going to be able to last.". There was no conversation on the boat.. * Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast * Greene, Renee, North Woodmere, N.Y. Below is a list of those on board, according to family, * Miller, Gideon, 57, off-duty TWA pilot, of Sarasota, Fla. Chrysou K, Halat G, Hoksch B, Schmid RA, Kocher GJ. * Braman-Mosberg, Rosemary, 47, off-duty TWA employee, of Hoboken, N.J. "We can empathize and feel sorry for the families, but we still have a job to do. He was traveling to France to finish work on a new line of fabric, which he planned to sell in a forthcoming string of his own boutiques in New York, Paris and London.