The tragedy came just two days before the opening of the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and many suspected terrorism. The Charbonniers were only two of several veteran TWA employees on board Flight 800. At 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 left from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris. 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. It turned out that TWA 800 fell because sparks from a defective wire ignited vapors in a fuel tank, which then exploded. An exasperated Lychner finally fought back. J Trauma. * Rhoads, Marit, 48, TWA Flight 800 crew, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Scott Rhoads) * Paquet, Ingrid, France He had won a scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. 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. In the spring, a local newspaper named her one of Binghamton's brightest students. A soft-spoken man in a world dominated by hyperbole and high tension, he took the dismissal in typically level-headed style. Story, William R. , president and chief executive officer of National American Insurance Co. of California. * LaForge, Alain, Hermelinghen, France She was overseeing the renovation of her Manhattan home, but her children were vacationing at the family's summer place in Hericy, France. Bedison was a coach and teacher to several of the 16 students from the towns high school French Club who perished on TWA Flight 800. Eerie images of TWA Flight 800 in the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 1996. But for victims relatives like Carol Ziemkiewicz, formerly of Rutherford, who lost her daughter Jill Ann in the TWA 800 fireball, it is still a troubling story of lives cut short an open wound of the heart that never seems to heal. 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. Bookshelf About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. On Friday, he again said he believed most of the victims died after suffering "the ultimate whiplash," separation of the spine from the skull. * D'Huimieres, Dominiques, LePlessis, France "There are 200 human beings who are now nonexistent, and those are people someone loved, and it could have been someone we loved. * Straus, Carine, Paris. Price, Dennis, investment manager, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Peggy Price) * 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. The plane, which crashed off the coast of Long Island, N.Y., on July 17, 1996, killing 230 people, is scheduled to be dismantled and moved to a at George Washington University crash reconstruction training facility in Virginia. Collections; People stand outside the Suffolk County morgue where TWA Flight 800 victims were taken July 18, 1996 in Long Island, NY. (daughter of Sandra Hazelton) -- Schuldt, Mike, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor. * Rhoads, Scott, 48, schoolteacher, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Marit Rhoads). Zara, Jean The aim, according to Francis, is to raise two of the four engines by the end of the week. Each one of these kids was unique, she said. Would you like email updates of new search results? 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. Twenty-three years ago, the borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County suffered an unimaginable loss. Real Faces Of A Tragedy For (married to Christine Diiorio) Tribune news services contributed to this report. Steven Snyder, 57, of Stratford, Conn., also had more than 30 years of service with the airline. At 8:31 p.m., the Boeing 747-100 exploded over East Moriches, New York, 12 miles off the coast of Long Island. 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. TWA Flight 800 victims' families still in pain 25 years later * Callas, Dan J. , 22, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Philadelphia 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. * Cox, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Becker, Michelle, 19, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, of St. Petersburg, Fla. the victims either died instantly or were rendered unconscious when the plane exploded. * Nibert, Cheryl, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. THE CRASH OF TWA FLIGHT 800: THE VICTIMS Sun Sentinel For Jills sister, Carin, who was only two years older, the loss was also devastating. It took months, but the remains of every victim were eventually found, aviation investigators said. * Wolfson, Wendy, student from Montoursville, Pa. (daughter of Eleanor Wolfson) * DeBoisredon, Cybele, Bordeaux, France I lost my heart, my soul, said Ziemkiewicz. Five years later, Judge would perish in the 9/11 terrorist attackas he ministered to firefighters and police at New York Citys World Trade Centers twin towers. ""I can't wait. Snyder, 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. "It's like a car smashing into a brick wall at 400 m.p.h.," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. But Wetli added: "We see Quincy' on TV, and he identifies people very quickly. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. "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. National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Robert Francis said his investigators will first rebuild the portion of the plane--a 25-foot-by-40 foot area--that stretches from the front cargo bay to just beyond the right wing. * 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. 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. 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. List of Identified Remains of Victims of TWA Flight 800 * Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. 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. 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. The report on passenger Susan Hill, a The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta, Ga. Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. List of Victims Identified From TWA Flight 800 | AP News Bedisons son, then a high school senior, considered joining the French Club on its trip to Paris. 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. Critical analysis of injuries sustained in the TWA flight 800 midair disaster. * Bellazoug, Myriam, 30, architect, of Paris. * 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. * Kwiat, Kimberly, 26, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (sister of Patricia Kwiat) * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. PMC O'Hara's trip to Paris -- where he was going to spearhead coverage of the Tour de France bicycle race -- was to be his last assignment for the network. J Trauma. * Aikens-Bellamy, Sandra, 49, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City (mother of Jay Carven) The rest have been withheld pending notification of family members. 2000 May;48(5):987-8. doi: 10.1097/00005373-200005000-00035. He said the explosion remains a mystery because "we still don't have the parts of the plane that we need to look at. From that investigation we issued safety recommendations that fundamentally changed the way aircraft are designed. 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. Los Angeles, Civilians flee embattled town of Bakhmut as Ukrainian pullout looms. We were born to be best friends.. "You know they were all good kids," Bogard said.