Carol Ziemkiewicz still has the Bell Atlantic telephone bill Among the most valuable aids, said Wetli, is a picture of the victim smiling; the teeth in the picture could be matched against those of bodies. 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. * Von Hedrich, Joseph, Bel Air, Md. Bogard was a former teacher at Montoursville High School during the time of the crash. Lychner's husband, Joe, had planned to join the family later. Luggage and wiring and food and seats and fuel and pillows and blankets and peeled-off sections of the fuselage were scattered for miles on the ocean surface and across its sandy floor. 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. Clicking on a highlighted name will take you to a short biography of that person. * Maresq, Nicolas, France Weaver, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. Some of the mourners wept quietly. * Hogan, David, of Paris, a Virginia-born composer who studied at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore * Warren, Lani, 48, off-duty TWA flight service manager, San Diego, Calif. The NTSB * Amlund, Svein, Norway * Eshleman, Douglas A. , 35, off-duty TWA flight engineer, of Aurora, Colo. But TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996 was to be her coming-out party of sorts her first international flight. About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. Richey, Brent ""She was a dynamite young lady,'' says her school principal, Tom Corgel. As with many tragedies, the rest of the world eventually moved on. * Bohlin, Michelle, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. You get better. I think about her all the time so it really. Harkness, Eric, 23, off-duty TWA employee, of Columbus, Ohio. * 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. ", Later in the day, a second dentist emerged from the medical examiner's office and talked with composure about having helped identify his colleague. * Lamour, Yvon, France * Windmiller, Ruben, New Rochelle, N.Y. (mother of Katrina M. Rose) Zara, Jean Sometimes it seems like its yesterday. (married to Ghassan Haurani) * Estival, Alexandre, * Feeney, Deirdre, 17, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (daughter of Vera Feeney) * Cox, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. It may have something to do with what happened here. 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. For several months thereafter, the NTSB will thoroughly document the reconstruction using various 3-D scanning techniques. Carven, Jay, 9, of Bel Air, Md. ""She always brightened my day.''. * Grivet, Cyril, senior lab technician at Carnegie Institution lab at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. The 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. That determination still has not been made, and it's possible it never will be. * Loo, Patricia, 55, retired researcher for the pharmacological firm Ciba-Geigy, of Springfield, N.J. * 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. She wasnt going to Versailles, Carol Ziemkiewicz now reasons. Injuries were assessed by anatomic region and severity by using the Abbreviated Injury Scale. 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. to Patricia Anderson) and transmitted securely. * Miller, Joan, Fairfield, Conn. * Haurani, Nina, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., mother of four in their teens and early 20s. * Dickey, Douglas, of Williamsport, Pa. (married to Deborah Dickey) * Aikey, Jessica, student from Montoursville, Pa. GEORGIA -- Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta. Results: 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. Analysis of the data revealed no global correlation between seat position and pattern of injury. "We've had marina customers afraid to come down," said co-owner Harvey Gessin. 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. The scanned data will be archived for historical purposes. Head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries were multiple and severe, contributing to the mortality of the occupants. Before * Privette, Glenda, 46, recently resigned as personnel manager at Beaulieu Carpet Plant in Bridgeport, Ala., of Stevenson, Ala. (mother of Thomas Weatherby) * Cremades, Daniel, France, * Dadi, Marcel, 46, French musician who helped spread Chet Atkins' style of guitar-playing across Europe and was returning home after being honored at Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn. Benjamin, Arthur, high school computer science teacher, of Philadelphia. She was a reporter on a children's television show and an accomplished pianist. * Baszczewski, Daniel, student from Montoursville, Pa. Constance Coiner, 48, an English professor specializing in women's literature, was awarded tenure last year at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and also won the school's award for excellence in teaching. He says his daughter wanted to go on the trip but because of a planned family vacation, he wouldn't allow it. In April the city of Houston issued a proclamation honoring her work. 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. "We can empathize and feel sorry for the families, but we still have a job to do. Just after the crash, FBI investigators quickly focused their attention on the plane's forward area, which contains a cargo hold where luggage and other materials are stored. In contrast to injuries incurred during crashes at takeoff and landing, these midflight injuries were too extreme to warrant a reappraisal of current passenger protective safety measures or standards. Just before he boarded the plane, he stopped to make one phone call. Conclusion: * Orman, Alan, New Hyde Park, N.Y. * 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. Accessibility To others, it is a somber, bureaucratic turning point in how America investigates air crashes. * Gaetke, Dan, 33, owned landscaping business and taught elementary school art; of Kansas City, Mo. Television news trucks swarmed the tiny community after the crash. * Ersoz, Namik, 64, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Clara Ersoz, uncle of David Babb) Yee, Judith, 53, former personnel executive with Bristol-Myers Corp., of New York City. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the * Gallagher, Claire, student from Montoursville, Pa. The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. Ralph G. , 58, TWA Flight 800 pilot, of Garden Grove, Calif. His grave in Totowais now a shrine for those who want him proclaimed a Roman Catholic saint. Some, however, believe the plane was hit by a missile strike from a terrorist or an accidental launch by the U.S. Navy. For Jills sister, Carin, who was only two years older, the loss was also devastating. 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. PMC Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. the victims either died instantly or were rendered unconscious when the plane exploded. * DiLuccio, Debra Collins, 47, TWA flight 800 crew, of Agropoli, Italy; formerly of Athens, Ga. The trip to France was a reward to herself for a wonderful year, one that included the finishing of her second book. Several friends from the town joined them. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. Sometimes it seems like an eternity, said Jills older brother, Matthew Ziemkiewicz, now the Bergen County deputy coordinator for emergency management. 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. It is heavily damaged. * Berthe, Maurice, Belleville, France 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. * Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. "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. Its dedicated to memorializing the lives and loss of the 16 Montoursville High School students and 5 chaperones killed aboard TWA Flight 800. * Kwan, Barbara, 40, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. An off-duty TWA pilot, Donald Gough of Mill Valley, Calif., and his wife, Ana, a TWA flight attendant, also were passengers. Bedison said many Montoursville residents retreated into their own emotional privacy while also trying to make time to attend the funerals. I havent.. We did everything together, Carin said. U.S. authorities ruled out the possibility of an errant missile strike by the Navy, but a number of conspiracists, including former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger, supported the theory. ""I mean, these were people you had just seen two days ago,'' said Shelby Dingler, 20. * Lychner, Katherine, 8, of Houston (daughter of Pam Lychner) * Grimm, Julia, student from Montoursville, Pa. Here are the stories of some of the victims who were struck down off the coast of New York last week: THEY STARTED GATHERING AT montoursville High School just hours after the crash. JUDITH DELOUVRIER, 47, WAS CROSSING the Atlantic for the second time in four days. * Silverman, Candace, 22, of Los Angeles (daughter of Eugene and Marietta Silverman) For several years she worked in the impressionist-art department at Sotheby's, the renowned auction house. The seats, foreground, and the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 sit in a hangar in Calverton, N.Y., Monday, July 16, 2001. Feeney, Vera, 56, home-care nurse, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (mother of Dierdre Feeney) More Local News to Love Start today for 50% off Expires 3/6/23, The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial, A retired New Jersey cheerleading coach has come to Montoursville every year, Sign up now for Good Morning, Pennsylvania. * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. The tragedy came just two days before the opening of the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and many suspected terrorism. example, if an autopsy suggests a victim lived beyond the initial explosion and may have suffered as the plane went down, additional damages might be sought, if a lawsuit were filed. * Ziemkiewicz, Jill, 24, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Rutherford, N.J. © Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. Navy divers, meanwhile, cleared the area around two of the 747's engines. * Brooks, Edwin, 81, former executive vice president of Taco Industries, of Edgartown, Mass. A picture of her daughter Jill sat on a nearby table a friendly smile with wide, inviting eyes. "There are 200 human beings who are now nonexistent, and those are people someone loved, and it could have been someone we loved. 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. In reality, it is a very slow and tedious process. * Alex, Christian, France (sister of Chrisha Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? Such is the complicated, enduring legacy of TWA Flight 800. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, POOL)Associated Press. 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. (father of Ashton Allen). 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. * Christopher, Janet, 48, TWA flight 800 crew, of Brodheadsville, Pa. * Dupont, Guy, France * Scott, Joseph, 13, of Stevenson, Ala. (son of Michael and Barbara Scott). The couple had planned to wed in a year. Mike Kelly is an award-winning columnist for NorthJersey.com. 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. 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. 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. * Luevano, Jr., Elias, 42, off-duty TWA employee, of Albuquerque, N.M. 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. * Miller, Kyle, 29, hardware store co-owner, of Andreas, Pa. (married to Amy Miller; their trip was to celebrate fifth wedding anniversary) Forensic tests have not discovered traces of chemical substances that would indicate an explosive. It took months, but the remains of every victim were eventually found, aviation investigators said. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. * Siebert, Chrisha, 28, taught theater at Rockhurst College, of Kansas City, Mo. (married to Ruth Brooks) Why is there an angel statue in the middle of the town? Bedison said. He also decided to sue Lychner, 37, for the emotional trauma the case had caused him. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. "You get a little used to it," he said. He had won a scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. * Gray, Charles H. III, 47, president and chief operating officer of Midland Financial Group, Inc., of Little Rock, Ark. * Callas, Dan J. , 22, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Philadelphia * Bellazoug, Myriam, 30, architect, of Paris. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal The cargo area has been the site of explosives in past bombings, including that of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. * Watson, Jacqueline, student from Montoursville, Pa. Complete autopsy records, toxicology screening, and forensic analysis were reviewed. So did conspiracy theorists and ordinary people who just wanted to offer some measure of comfort. "I believe they were all totally unconscious or dead by the time they hit the water," Wetli told The Associated Press. * Kwiat, Kimberly, 26, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (sister of Patricia Kwiat) * Scott, Michael, 44, physicist, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Barbara Scott) * Babb, David, 13, of Volant, Pa. (nephew of Clara and Namik Ersoz) An asterick (*) next to a name indicates that the person has been positively identified. After all, so many boaters thought they saw streaks of light in the summer sky. Was this an act of terrorism, perhaps the kind of suitcase bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988? * Haurani, Dr. Ghassan, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. (married to Nina Haurani) (son of Paula Carven) What once might have seemed distant and limited to people far away has now become far more personal. Ralph Kevorkian, 58, of Garden Grove, Calif., and Capt. * Meade, Sandra, 42, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Camano Island, Wash. * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. "That's where they're finding stuff. Meshulam, Avishaim * Remy, Jacqueline, France Customers have virtually disappeared from Larry's Crab House, a festive restaurant with a deck and volleyball court adjacent to a marina on Moriches Bay. At 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 left from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris. One major change that resulted from the planes downing was that airlines now are required by federal law to set up a toll-free hotline for victims relatives to obtain information after a crash and to assign groups such as the Red Cross to care for those relatives. Careers. CAPTION: On a dock in Brooklyn, a section of the 747 jumbo jet that crashed Wednesday night is hauled away as part of the investigation into the cause. Analysis revealed that the severity of injury and anatomic injury pattern did not generally correlate with seating position or structural damage. * Beatty, Charles, 50, senior systems engineer with the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va.; of Spotsylvania, Va. A comparison of these injuries with those of takeoff and landing crashes showed differences in injury pattern and severity. Their goal, they figured, was to rescue survivors. The O'Haras' twin 12-year-old sons stayed at home with their grandparents. "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. * Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. * Anderson, Patricia, 42, of Warson Woods, Mo. Medical Examiner Wetli said only half of the 100 bodies retrieved from the ocean so far had been processed, meaning photographed, fingerprinted, weighed, X-rayed, and autopsied. * Gabor, Daniel, 27, ran middle-distances for University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Walnut Creek, Calif. * Bower, Jordan, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. Kallstrom said that three cargo bays have been located about 12 miles from the Long Island shore. On an otherwise recent sunny summer day, Carol Ziemkiewicz sat in the quiet of a kitchen of her spacious and gleaming townhouse in Point Pleasant Beach where she moved after retiring from teaching third grade for several decades at Rutherfords Pierrepont School. There were also 17 off-duty TWA employees, the airline said. In Moriches, New York, Matthew Cashman also feels that need to remember the history of TWA Flight 800. The .gov means its official. * Nelson, Alecia, New York The report on passenger Susan Hill, a homicide detective from Portland, Oregon, was received by her estate's Chicago attorney this week. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. "You know they were all good kids," Bogard said. * Weatherby, Thomas, 13, of Stevenson, Ala. (son of Glenda Privette). New York's Pataki asks feds to help pay for TWA recovery, TWA 800 families to press airline for compensation, NTSB urges new fuel-tank safety measures for airlines, FBI probes reported sighting off New York coast, Department of Transportation - Research and Special Programs Administration, UMass Polymer Scientists Developing Fireproof Aircraft Materials for FAA. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. ""The biggest thing that happens here is football season,'' says senior Kevin Williams. 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. People should know that.. 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. * Loffredo, Elaine, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Glastonbury, Conn. * Lacailledesse, Antoine, France They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. 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. * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. * Ersoz, Clara Jean, 59, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Namik Ersoz, aunt of David Babb). 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.
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