230 people perished when TWA Flight 800 exploded. 25 years - Yahoo An off-duty TWA pilot, Donald Gough of Mill Valley, Calif., and his wife, Ana, a TWA flight attendant, also were passengers. [9], The accident airplane, registration N93119 (a Boeing 747-131), was manufactured by Boeing in July 1971; it had been ordered by Eastern Air Lines, but after Eastern cancelled its 747 orders, the plane was purchased new by Trans World Airlines. He said some of them are afraid that debris or body parts will wash up. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. Twa Pilot's Body Found Strapped In His Cockpit Seat These tests simulated a fuel-air explosion in the CWT by igniting a propane-air mixture; this resulted in the failure of the tank structure due to overpressure. Emotions fresh 25 years after Flight 800 tragedy - The Daily Item Debris chip found on body points to blast site TWA investigation The Paris-bound jet had just left the airport . Aikey, Jessica, Montoursville, Pa. Alex, Christian, France She was also on the varsity tennis team. [1]:123 Because the research data regarding quenching were limited, a complete understanding of quenching behavior was not possible, and the issue of quenching remained unresolved. 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. Seventeen of the 18 crew members[21] and 152 of the passengers were Americans; the remaining crew member was Italian, while the remaining passengers were of various other nationalities. [1]:298, Computer modeling[1]:122123 and scale-model testing[1]:123 were used to predict and demonstrate how an explosion would progress in a 747 CWT. TWA Flight 800 disaster - a look back - CBS News In April the city of Houston issued a proclamation honoring her work. "Delightfulthough never disrespectful" (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies Death On Flight 800. 'It exploded without warning': The crash of TWA Flight 800 25 years ago [1]:258259 Testing conducted by the FAA's Technical Center indicated that residues of the type of explosives found on the wreckage would dissipate completely after two days of immersion in sea water (almost all recovered wreckage was immersed longer than two days). ""I told him yes.'' Dale Russakoff is the author of "The Prize," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [33]:3 Ultimately, remains of all 230 victims were recovered and identified, the last over 10 months after the crash. Gray, Charles Hank, 47, of Memphis, president and chief operating officer of Midland Financial Group, Inc. Griffith, Joanne, 39, of Brooklyn, N.Y., off-duty TWA employee, Grimm, Julia, of Montoursville, Pa., student, Grivet, Cyril, of Menlo Park, senior lab technician at Carnegie Institution lab at Stanford University.