Bedisons son, then a high school senior, considered joining the French Club on its trip to Paris. Los Angeles, Civilians flee embattled town of Bakhmut as Ukrainian pullout looms. Results: "It's never very pleasant when you're in this field and you have to autopsy someone you know," said Suffolk County Medical Examiner Charles Wetli. * Remy, Jacqueline, France But even though we're physicians, we're still human. * Caillaud, Daniel, Deux Sevres, France Twenty-three years ago, the borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County suffered an unimaginable loss. Ana Duarte Coiner) Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. This site needs JavaScript to work properly. * Paquet, Ingrid, France . * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. * Coiner, Constance, 48, associate professor of English and literature at State University of New York at Binghamton, of Binghamton, N.Y. (mother of Was this an act of terrorism, perhaps the kind of suitcase bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988? Ralph G. , 58, TWA Flight 800 pilot, of Garden Grove, Calif. * Haurani, Nina, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., mother of four in their teens and early 20s. ", He added, "Given that we're going to bring up the great majority of the aircraft, I think we're going to find out what happened.". Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. I dont think thats true, said John Seaman of Albany, New York, who lost a niece aboard TWA Flight 800 and went on to lead a coalition of victims relatives who campaigned for airline safety. * Cox, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. What followed was unbelievable grief and anguish. 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. The tragedy came just two days before the opening of the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and many suspected terrorism. 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. Because this was his last trip, O'Hara planned to mix relaxation with business. Flight engineer Richard Campbell, 63, of Ridgefield, Conn., received his 30-year pin just two weeks before the crash. But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. An official website of the United States government. * Pares, Serge, New Haven, Conn. "You get a little used to it," he said. * Bossuyt, Luc, employee of Bristol-Myers, of Trumbull, Conn. But for those most closely affected, the wounds are still fresh. Her 12-year-old daughter, Ana Duarte-Coiner, was an overachiever as well. One dead, two hospitalized after crash in Lackawanna County. * Haurani, Dr. Ghassan, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. (married to Nina Haurani) Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. The medical examiner has released the names of 32 victims who have been identified. Lessons from a large trauma center: impact of blunt chest trauma in polytrauma patients-still a relevant problem. To some it is still a story of a terrorist conspiracy that persists despite well-documented facts showing the plane was actually brought down by a tragic mechanical failure. * Rhoads, Marit, 48, TWA Flight 800 crew, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Scott Rhoads) Even today as she looks back, Bedison feels pained as she recalls the students who were lost and the towns collective grief. But I'm sure she is glad she didn't go," said Maynard Bogard, of Montoursville. He also decided to sue Lychner, 37, for the emotional trauma the case had caused him. ", Ziemkiewicz reached for a stack of letters from Jills friends, then another photo album and more pictures. So far, Wetli said he cannot rule out a bomb as the cause, but he said he has found no evidence of one, such as metal and bomb parts trapped in bodies. JUDITH DELOUVRIER, 47, WAS CROSSING the Atlantic for the second time in four days. Their goal, they figured, was to rescue survivors. On Friday, he again said he believed most of the victims died after suffering "the ultimate whiplash," separation of the spine from the skull. * Ziemkiewicz, Jill, 24, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Rutherford, N.J. © Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. * Puichaud, Elizabeth, France. -- Allen, Lamar, of Marietta. It was surreal.. * Braman-Mosberg, Rosemary, 47, off-duty TWA employee, of Hoboken, N.J. * Teang, Lydie, France Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? News media flooded the area. Some 180 miles from Rutherford, in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, Stephanie Bedison bears similar emotional scars as the Ziemkiewicz family. All rights reserved. She also remembers her daughters last words. 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. 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. * Fry, Carol, former school board member, Montoursville, Pa. The scanned data will be archived for historical purposes. This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. * Lacailledesse, Antoine, France * Hull, James, 48, off-duty TWA employee, of Southampton, Pa. He, like hundreds of families around the world, are now beginning the struggle to carry on. Why is there an angel statue in the middle of the town? Bedison said. We grew up together. It may have something to do with what happened here. You move on. Weaver, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. the victims either died instantly or were rendered unconscious when the plane exploded. * Bellazoug, Myriam, 30, architect, of Paris. Lychner's husband, Joe, had planned to join the family later. People should know that.. He had won a scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. * Silverman, Jamie, 15, of Los Angeles (daughter of Eugene and Marietta Silverman) * Grimm, Julia, student from Montoursville, Pa. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. (daughter of Sandra Hazelton) Bookshelf Unnamed passenger flying with Elsie Ostachiewicz, * Paquet, Huguette, France MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. As Michele Jez and her sister stood inside the General John Burrows Historical Society's Flight 800 memorial room in Montoursville, they stared at the faces of 21 people whose lives were cut way too short. * Estival, Alexandre, * Feeney, Deirdre, 17, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (daughter of Vera Feeney) 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. TWA Flight 800 did not take off until around 8:30 p.m. Just after 5 p.m., Jill phoned her mother in Rutherford. She was also on the varsity tennis team. 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. 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. From ancient times, history has been pockmarked withsudden, unexpected tragedy that rips apart the lives of ordinary people. * D'Alessandro, Anna, of Palo del Colle, Italy (married to Giuseppe Mercurio) * Brooks, Edwin, 81, former executive vice president of Taco Industries, of Edgartown, Mass. Some, however, believe the plane was hit by a missile strike from a terrorist or an accidental launch by the U.S. Navy. Benjamin, Arthur, high school computer science teacher, of Philadelphia. Injuries were assessed by anatomic region and severity by using the Abbreviated Injury Scale. * Chaillou, Jenny, France After finishing her TWA training in the spring of 1996, Jill worked a few domestic flights. Bogard was a former teacher at Montoursville High School during the time of the crash. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. (sister of Chrisha Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) * Watson, Jacqueline, student from Montoursville, Pa. She spent considerable time taking her son Henry, 9, to ice-hockey games and her daughter, Isabelle, 7, to ballet classes. It is heavily damaged. The NTSB plans to stop use of the reconstruction July 7, 2021. This is our history. It took months, but the remains of every victim were eventually found, aviation investigators said. Silverman, Eugene, 54, a Bel-Air, Calif., tax attorney (married to Marietta Silverman, father of Candace and Jamie) 1996, the FBI opened the hangar Wednesday to reporters and victims families. Eerie images of TWA Flight 800 in the Atlantic Ocean on July 17, 1996. I just could not comprehend the shock. Instead, he said, there are blunt force trauma injuries, consistent with being struck by pieces of the jet as it fell from the sky after an explosion elsewhere in the plane. * 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. 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. * Ersoz, Namik, 64, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Clara Ersoz, uncle of David Babb) The Charbonniers were only two of several veteran TWA employees on board Flight 800. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the cause of the explosion was likely a short circuit that ignited fuel vapors as the pilots were shifting fuel to better balance the airplane. Sign up now for Good Morning, Pennsylvania, and get the most important headlines delivered free to your inbox by 6 a.m. Monday-Friday. * Eshleman, Douglas A. , 35, off-duty TWA flight engineer, of Aurora, Colo. (niece of Anna Maria Shorter) * McPherson, Pamela Cobb, 45, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City WebTrans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. 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. TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, bound for Paris, France with 230 people aboard, crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International * Richter, Annelyse, Brousse, France * Christopher, Janet, 48, TWA flight 800 crew, of Brodheadsville, Pa. Each one of these kids was unique, she said. The medical examiner, Dr. Charles Wetli, had to get permission from federal agencies investigating the crash before releasing it. He attracted an unusually eclectic, though uniformly wealthy, clientele, including Richard Gere, Mick Jagger and Yves Saint Laurent. (married to Jay Anderson) * Buttaroni, Mirko, 26, bank employee, of Fano, Italy (married to Monica Omiccioli). "It's an extremely violent whiplash . The rookie, then-Gov. * Anderson, J. Edward, 49, financial planner for Allmerica, of Warson Woods, Mo. "You don't want anybody to onion.". * Lychner, Pamela, 37, prominent Texas crime victims rights advocate, of Houston (mother of Shannon and Katie Lychner). 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. But mostly they were silent, huddling together and vainly attempting to turn raw emotions into words. The plane had exploded 12 minutes after takeoff at JFK International Airport. 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. * Weatherby, Thomas, 13, of Stevenson, Ala. (son of Glenda Privette). An exasperated Lychner finally fought back. The .gov means its official. * Lang, Raymond, 51, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Tafton, Pa. Nothings ever the same, he said. * Kevorkian, Capt. Mychal Judge who comforted the grieving. In this case, the victim was a Long Island dentist who had assisted forensic dentists in the medical examiner's office. Victim fragmentation patterns and seat location supplements crash data: American Airlines flight 587. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial is located at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, Long Island, New York. A comparison of these injuries with those of takeoff and landing crashes showed differences in injury pattern and severity. 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. Aviat Space Environ Med. Then, two more. The U.S. Navy and the FBI, in conjunction with the National Safety Transportation Board, launched an extensive investigation of the incident, collecting the scattered wreckage of the aircraft out of the Atlantic and reconstructing the plane in a closely guarded hangar. As families of the lost passengers gathered at a hotel, we were introduced to the grace and kindness of a Franciscan priest the Rev. My family will never be the same.. "That's where they're finding stuff. "There were injury patterns that indicated there was an explosion from below. * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. Its still raw, he said Just talking about it now makes me feel like it happened yesterday.. * Harris, Lawrence, New York Lychner also helped persuade judges to let crime victims address their assailants in court after a guilty verdict. * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. But theres a big hole in the family.. * D'Huimieres, Dominiques, LePlessis, France 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. 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. And no one is very comfortable going there, so close to the place where that happened, and just sitting and relaxing and playing volleyball." 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. Clipboard, Search History, and several other advanced features are temporarily unavailable. * Ingenhuett, Lonnie, 43, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. * Jacquemot, Benoit, France Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies Then another. Sitting beside him on the plane were his wife, Janet, and their 13-year-old daughter, Caitlin, who recently won the French prize at the Middle School in Irvington, N.Y. There were also 17 off-duty TWA employees, the airline said. government site. 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. * DeLange, Sylvain, Paris Price, Dennis, investment manager, of Englewood, Colo. (married to Peggy Price) As a student of landscape architecture at Rutgers University, Jill longed to walk amid lush flowers and shrubs and clipped lawns at Versailles. Would you like email updates of new search results? * Michel, Pascal, Montpellier, France * Ersoz, Clara Jean, 59, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Namik Ersoz, aunt of David Babb). * Alex, Christian, France But his dream was to compete in the Olympics. Ralph Kevorkian, 58, of Garden Grove, Calif., and Capt. But our modern world, with television and social media, have brought those intimate moments of tragedy into our living rooms and to the cellular phones we carry in our pockets. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. When the NTSB moved the reconstruction to the Training Center, it did so with the stipulation that it would be used solely as a training resource and never as an exhibit or public display. * 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. Traveling to France to study gardens with wife. Snyder, Capt. You get better. ""The last thing he ever would have done was to go into someone's house and make them feel bad about their furniture,'' says his sister-in-law, Linda Johnson. ""Change is good,'' he said in the memo he wrote to his staff. JACQUES AND CONSTANCE CHARBONNIER fell in love on an airplane. He says his daughter wanted to go on the trip but because of a planned family vacation, he wouldn't allow it. 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. Working with two other women, she helped establish Justice for All, a Houston-based organization that lobbies for victims' rights. (mother of Katrina M. Rose) Remains of 15 victims were never found. "It's a matter of sensitivity," she said. * Scott, Michael, 44, physicist, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Barbara Scott) Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! 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. The investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 is a seminal moment in aviation safety history, said NTSB Managing Director Sharon Bryson. The group, which now has 5,000 members in several states, has successfully pushed for laws limiting the early release of prisoners. Speculation fueled theories that a terrorist act had caused the crash that killed the 230 on board, but an investigation later concluded Baggage and other items normally stored in the front section of the plane have been discovered in a debris field closest to John F. Kennedy International Airport, from where the Paris-bound jet departed, further buttressing investigators' belief that the explosion was in that part of the plane. * Carven, Paula, off-duty TWA flight attendant and part-time real-estate agent, of Bel Air, Md. Officials believe the crash was caused by an explosive, a missile or mechanical failure. The site is secure. 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 https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Time doesnt heal the wounds. There was no conversation on the boat.. We were staring at this massive debris field that was still on fire, Cashman recalled. * Gaetke, Dan, 33, owned landscaping business and taught elementary school art; of Kansas City, Mo. 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. * Hochard, Jean-Pierre, France WebThe purpose of the present study, which represents the first analysis of aviation injuries incurred during a midflight incident, was to examine the injuries sustained by the victims of 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. * Richter, Noemie, Brousse, France His training was informal, but priceless. (wife of Dan Gaetke, cousin of Chrisha and Brenna Siebert). For Montoursville, a 4-square-mile speck of a town in central Pennsylvania with just 4,600 residents, the loss of 21 residents was a shock to the system. * Hammer, Tracy, 29, graduate student in microbiology and veterinary medicine at Michigan State University, of Long Beach, N.Y. (daughter of Beverly Hammer) -- Schuldt, Mike, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor. The NTSB Rose, Katrina M. , 26, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. HAUPPAUGE, New York (CNN) -- The Suffolk County medical examiner has released the first autopsy report on the victims from TWA Flight 800. * Lucien, Dalila, 17, daughter of jazz singer Jon Lucien and niece of saxophone player Wayne Shorter, who were not on the flight. * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. He says he knew nearly all the students on board the flight. It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". 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. * Dodge, Warren, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Brentwood, N.H., and Ashland, Mass. Theywere traveling to Paris with five adult chaperones. 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. 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. Mike Kelly is an award-winning columnist for NorthJersey.com. GEORGIA -- Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta. * Baszczewski, Daniel, student from Montoursville, Pa. Methods: (sister of Brenna Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) Profiles M - Z. At 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 left from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. 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. A picture of her daughter Jill sat on a nearby table a friendly smile with wide, inviting eyes. A plastic bomb would not leave such traces, he emphasized. At 8:31 p.m., the Boeing 747-100 exploded over East Moriches, New York, 12 miles off the coast of Long Island. * Siebert, Brenna, 25, veterinary clinic worker in Jefferson City, Mo., of Holts Summit, Mo. JACK O'HARA WAS HAVING A TERRIBLE week. She was overseeing the renovation of her Manhattan home, but her children were vacationing at the family's summer place in Hericy, France. * Hazelton, Sandra, of Beachwood, Ohio, a high school French teacher taking her daughter to Paris as a college graduation gift. The NTSB is exploring options to continue its robust training program. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted Wendy Wolfson) Several friends from the town joined them. The couple had planned to wed in a year. Harkness, Eric, 23, off-duty TWA employee, of Columbus, Ohio. The autopsies had not found any physical or chemical evidence on the victims' bodies that proved that a bomb brought down the jumbo jet with 230 people aboard, Wetli said. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. * Bohlin, Michelle, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Gallagher, Claire, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Romagna, Barbara, 76, of Sun City Center, Fla. * Rupert, Judith, high school secretary, Montoursville, Pa. * Schuldt, Michael, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor, Fla. * Caillaud, Anthony, Cerizay, France Christine Todd Whitman said in a eulogy. 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. Steven Snyder, 57, of Stratford, Conn., also had more than 30 years of service with the airline. Even as trauma specialists comforted the families of victims at Kennedy airport, they have been attending carefully to the search teams, pathologists and investigators exposed to the human horrors being pulled from the ocean. Nelson, Twyla, New York * DeBoisredon, Cybele, Bordeaux, 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. 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. * Graham, Steven, 38, a marketing director for the long-distance phone company Ameritel, of Napa, Calif. Analysis of the data revealed no global correlation between seat position and pattern of injury. Here is a complete list of the 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants, aboard TWA Flight 800: -A- Aikens-Bellamy, Sandra, 49, of St. Later, we monitored the trail of conspiracy theories. He acknowledged that families of the victims are extremely impatient for their loved ones to be identified; 16 have been tentatively identified and the dentist colleague has been positively identified along with his wife traveling with him on Flight 800. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help But Watli has said since early in the investigation that he believes Johnson, Leonard, 53, mechanical engineer, of Springfield, Va. (married to Eleanor Johnson) * Torche, Melinda, 47, TWA Flight 800 crew, Mission Viejo, Calif. * Uzupis, Larissa, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Van Epps, Lois, mid-50s, English teacher at Edgemont Junior and Senior High School in Scarsdale, N.Y., of New York City * Chemtob, Monique, Los Angeles * Foster, Rod, 61, corporate pilot for Dassault Falcon Jet Co., of Sherman, Conn. 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. * Lockhart, Maureen, 49, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Merriam, Kan. THE COINER WOMEN WERE A talented twosome. * Becker, Michelle, 19, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, of St. Petersburg, Fla. 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. * Griffith, Joanne, 39, off-duty TWA employee, of Brooklyn, N.Y. The mother opened her box of memories and the pain and darkness poured out again. They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. * Aikens-Bellamy, Sandra, 49, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City 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. * Jones, Ramona, 61, retired hospital employee; West Hartford, Conn. * Karschner, Amanda, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Tofani, Mauro, 46, a cloth merchant, of Prato, Italy. 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. available), from The Associated Press. * Thiery, Josette, France * Holst, Eric, 32, dentist, Manorville, N.Y. (husband of Virginia Holst) 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. * Johnson, Jed, 47, interior designer, of New York. WebHAUPPAUGE, New York (CNN) -- The Suffolk County medical examiner has released the first autopsy report on the victims from TWA Flight 800. 1993 Feb;34(2):282-4. doi: 10.1097/00005373-199302000-00019. TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747, bound for Paris, France with 230 people aboard, crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. * Gough, Capt. Steven, 57, TWA Flight 800 pilot, Stratford, Conn. * Johnson, Eleanor, 50, retired vice president of editing firm, of Springfield, Va. (married to Leonard Johnson) * Miller, Gideon, 57, off-duty TWA pilot, of Sarasota, Fla. (son of Paula Carven) ""The biggest thing that happens here is football season,'' says senior Kevin Williams.