All 230 passengers of TWA Flight 800 were recovered as fatalities. * Alex, Christian, France It opened on July 17, 2002. * Omiccioli, Monica, 23, seamstress, of Fano, Italy (married to Mirko Buttaroni) But even though we're physicians, we're still human. * 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. * Allen, Otis Lamar, of Marietta, Ga. (father of Ashton Allen). SMITHTOWN, N.Y. Autopsies reveal that most passengers aboard the ill-fated TWA Flight 800 died almost immediately in the air, sparing them the long plunge into Unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. * Merieux, Rudolphe, son of the president of the pharmaceutical company Merieux Laboratories in Lyons, France (his father was not on the plane) WebAnalysis of victims' autopsies revealed that as many as 47 of the 230 people on board the 747 may not have been killed instantly by the explosion that felled the plane. Bookshelf * Lucien, Dalila, 17, daughter of jazz singer Jon Lucien and niece of saxophone player Wayne Shorter, who were not on the flight. She wasnt going to Versailles, Carol Ziemkiewicz now reasons. America watched on the night of July 17, 1996 as orange flames from the downed airliner streaked the Atlantics choppy surface, just a few miles off the coast of Fire Island. * 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. Bogard was a former teacher at Montoursville High School during the time of the crash. In her Point Pleasant Beach home, Carol Ziemkiewicz says she draws comfort from a garden in Lyndhurst that was built in Jills memory. * Bellazoug, Myriam, 30, architect, of Paris. Story, William R. , president and chief executive officer of National American Insurance Co. of California. Damage to portions of the engines may indicate from which direction the fatal explosion that downed the plane came. * Braman-Mosberg, Rosemary, 47, off-duty TWA employee, of Hoboken, N.J. So far, most of the recovered bodies that pathologists are examining have been "relatively intact," said Wetli, but he emphasized that "relative" is itself a relative term. * Haurani, Dr. Ghassan, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich. (married to Nina Haurani) 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. She pulled out a card. It is heavily damaged. As with many tragedies, the rest of the world eventually moved on. But for men and women untrained in dealing with trauma -- a group that includes thousands of vacationers who had come to this area for rest and restoration -- the pain of the crash is much harder to bear. "We've had marina customers afraid to come down," said co-owner Harvey Gessin. * Kwiat, Kimberly, 26, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (sister of Patricia Kwiat) A soft-spoken man in a world dominated by hyperbole and high tension, he took the dismissal in typically level-headed style. 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. * Bouhs, Leonie, France (AP Photo/ Ed Betz)ASSOCIATED PRESS. He had won a scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. * Miller, Kyle, 29, hardware store co-owner, of Andreas, Pa. (married to Amy Miller; their trip was to celebrate fifth wedding anniversary) We did everything together, Carin said. * Aikens-Bellamy, Sandra, 49, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City Wendy Wolfson, 16, had just returned from New York, where she performed her own piano compositions at Carnegie Hall. * LaForge, Alain, Hermelinghen, France Chrysou K, Halat G, Hoksch B, Schmid RA, Kocher GJ. family, friends or officials (ages and occupations given where At 8:31 p.m., the Boeing 747-100 exploded over East Moriches, New York, 12 miles off the coast of Long Island. * Hazelton, Sandra, of Beachwood, Ohio, a high school French teacher taking her daughter to Paris as a college graduation gift. * Gabor, Daniel, 27, ran middle-distances for University of Arkansas, of Fayetteville, Ark., and Walnut Creek, Calif. She was going heaven.. "You don't want anybody to onion.". "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. Twenty-three years ago, the borough of Montoursville in Lycoming County suffered an unimaginable loss. 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. TWA Flight 800 did not take off until around 8:30 p.m. Just after 5 p.m., Jill phoned her mother in Rutherford. And no one is very comfortable going there, so close to the place where that happened, and just sitting and relaxing and playing volleyball." Ralph Kevorkian, 58, of Garden Grove, Calif., and Capt. "You know they were all good kids," Bogard said. So was Judith Rupert, who graduated from Montoursville High in 1961 and worked as a school secretary for 34 years. 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 Was it an errant missile fired froma U.S. Navy ship? Alexander, Matthew, 20, a student at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., traveling to Dijon, France, to study, of Florence, S.C. * Carven, Paula, off-duty TWA flight attendant and part-time real-estate agent, of Bel Air, Md. * Hull, James, 48, off-duty TWA employee, of Southampton, Pa. ", 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.". Harkness, Eric, 23, off-duty TWA employee, of Columbus, Ohio. As a student of landscape architecture at Rutgers University, Jill longed to walk amid lush flowers and shrubs and clipped lawns at Versailles. The reconstructed wreckage from TWA Flight 800 that exploded and killed 230 people in 1996 is being destroyed after serving as a teaching tool for crash investigators. The 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 the TWA Flight 800 disaster and to determine any correlation of injuries with structural damage and seat location. * Silverman, Jamie, 15, of Los Angeles (daughter of Eugene and Marietta Silverman) ""I can't wait. Working with two other women, she helped establish Justice for All, a Houston-based organization that lobbies for victims' rights. 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. * Bohlin, Michelle, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Kevorkian, Capt. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. * Ingenhuett, Lonnie, 43, off-duty TWA employee, of Scottsdale, Ariz. * Jacquemot, Benoit, France WASHINGTON (Feb. 22, 2021) The National Transportation Safety Board announced Monday its decision to decommission the TWA Flight 800 reconstruction as the agency prepares for the expiration of the lease for its Ashburn, Virginia, Training Center. Mike Kelly is an award-winning columnist for NorthJersey.com. It's no more emotionally stressful than a doctor who deals every day with childhood leukemia. An asterick (*) next to a name indicates that the person has been positively identified. Evidence indicated the explosion was the result of an electrical failure that ignited the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. News media flooded the area. "It's a matter of sensitivity," she said. Injuries were assessed by anatomic region and severity by using the Abbreviated Injury Scale. Collections; People stand outside the Suffolk County morgue where TWA Flight 800 victims were taken July 18, 1996 in Long Island, NY. Some of the 196 bodies found so far did contain shrapnel, he said. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. 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. * Eshleman, Douglas A. , 35, off-duty TWA flight engineer, of Aurora, Colo. He said some of them are afraid that debris or body parts will wash up. All 230 people on board died including 16 students and five chaperones from the Montoursville Area High School French Club headed to Paris. 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. 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. Methods: * Watson, Jacqueline, student from Montoursville, Pa. Head, thoracic, and abdominal injuries were multiple and severe, contributing to the mortality of the occupants. 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. He, like hundreds of families around the world, are now beginning the struggle to carry on. The plane, bound for Paris, exploded just after takeoff from New York, killing everyone on board. * Holst, Eric, 32, dentist, Manorville, N.Y. (husband of Virginia Holst) * Martin, Betty Ruth, 69, of Belleville, Ill. 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 1993 Feb;34(2):282-4. doi: 10.1097/00005373-199302000-00019. 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. Snyder, Capt. The investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 is a seminal moment in aviation safety history, said NTSB Managing Director Sharon Bryson. In all, Cashman and his father, Thomas, who was well known on Long Island as a shark fisherman, recovered four bodies that night, all of them women. 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. 2000 May;48(5):987-8. doi: 10.1097/00005373-200005000-00035. The cargo area has been the site of explosives in past bombings, including that of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. * Scott, Barbara, 39, registered nurse, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Michael Scott) The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. SMITHTOWN, N.Y. Autopsies reveal that most passengers aboard the ill-fated TWA Flight 800 died almost immediately in the air, sparing them the long plunge into the ocean after the plane broke apart in midair, a coroner said Thursday. He said the explosion remains a mystery because "we still don't have the parts of the plane that we need to look at. * Notes, Gadi, 29, senior associate at investment banking division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc., Israeli citizen; New York. I think about her all the time so it really. * Miller, Gideon, 57, off-duty TWA pilot, of Sarasota, Fla. Mercurio, Giuseppe, of Palo del Colle, Italy, produce-stand worker and part-owner of jewelry store near Bari, Italy (married to Anna d'Alessandro) * Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". * Scott, Joseph, 13, of Stevenson, Ala. (son of Michael and Barbara Scott). His co-workers and friends had hardly gotten used to the idea of his leaving when news of the disaster hit. 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. * Wolters, Bonnie, 44, of New York City, a bond trader engaged to be married to a judge who was not on the flight but had planned to join her in France next week. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help It may have something to do with what happened here. The garden, which is based on one of Jills designs as a budding landscape architect, features wind chimes a favorite of Jills and a fountain designed to replicate thesunflower, which was one of Jill's favorites. Theywere traveling to Paris with five adult chaperones. * Johnsen, Arlene E. , 60, TWA Flight 800 flight attendant, owned a bed and breakfast, of Grand Junction, Colo. 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. 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. Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. ""He called me from the pay phone in the airport and asked me to marry him,'' Snow says. JACK O'HARA WAS HAVING A TERRIBLE week. 2017 Apr 20;25(1):42. doi: 10.1186/s13049-017-0384-y. Only no one was alive. Her husband, Philippe, is president of Eastern Industrial Minerals in Brunswick, Ga. O'Hara, Janet, 39, of Irvington, N.Y. (wife of John O'Hara). * Charbonnier, Jacques, 66, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. 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. National Library of Medicine Almost all the students who died were classic overachievers, the kind of model students that parents boast about to anyone who will listen. A tireless volunteer for several New York nonprofit programs, she was also an active member of the Connelly Foundation, a family philanthropy that made grants to education, arts and social-service organizations. Investigators, meanwhile, said they would begin reconstructing the front section of the Boeing 747 in an effort to learn more about the cause of the crash. -- Allen, Lamar, of Marietta. Passengers of Flight 800 sustained instantaneous fatal blunt force injury. * Shorter, Anna Maria, of Los Angeles, wife of saxophone player Wayne Shorter who was not on the flight (aunt of Dalila Lucien) About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. and transmitted securely. He says his daughter wanted to go on the trip but because of a planned family vacation, he wouldn't allow it. * Cayrol, Jacques, Montpelier, France But for those most closely affected, the wounds are still fresh. * Chemtob, Monique, Los Angeles CREATIVE. It was surreal.. * Rogers, Kimberly, student from Montoursville, Pa. J Trauma. The reconstruction, housed in the 30,000 square foot hangar along with other training tools at the NTSBs Training Center, has been used in the NTSBs accident investigation training courses for nearly 20 years. Her 12-year-old daughter, Ana Duarte-Coiner, was an overachiever as well. * Teang, Rachama-Chan, France Then a letter. * Ellison, Marie, Mount Vernon, N.Y. 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. * 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. Its still raw, he said Just talking about it now makes me feel like it happened yesterday.. 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. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Several friends from the town joined them. 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. Carol Ziemkiewicz still has the Bell Atlantic telephone bill that lists the call. * Dickey, Deborah, a French teacher at Montoursville school, of Williamsport, Pa. (married to Douglas Dickey) Results: "Mom I'm psyched. WebTrans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. Then, two more. * Gasq, Francis, Palm Harbor, Fla. From that investigation we issued safety recommendations that fundamentally changed the way aircraft are designed. 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. 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. * Thiery, Josette, France (mother of Katrina M. Rose) 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. For several months thereafter, the NTSB will thoroughly document the reconstruction using various 3-D scanning techniques. She was a reporter on a children's television show and an accomplished pianist. They were people. * Wolfson, Eleanor, chaperone of Montoursville, Pa., school group (mother of * Graham, Steven, 38, a marketing director for the long-distance phone company Ameritel, of Napa, Calif. 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. * Skojold, Kristina, Sweden 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. * Verhaeghe, Rick L. , off-duty TWA flight officer, 48, Goldsboro, N.C. ""She just commanded respect from elected officials and from the criminal-justice system,'' says Andrew Kahan, director of Houston's Crime Victims Office. 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. Aviat Space Environ Med. WebFind Twa Flight 800 stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. JACQUES AND CONSTANCE CHARBONNIER fell in love on an airplane. Bodies and debris have been carried far from the crash site by tides -- requiring searchers to cover more than 400 square miles of ocean -- and large sections of the 747 jetliner have sunk more than 100 feet, likely with many of the missing bodies inside. A former TWA flight attendant herself, Lychner was taking her daughters Shannon, 10, and Katie, 8, to France to see the gardens that inspired Claude Monet's paintings (Shannon had just begun to copy the masterpieces at home). * Paquet, Ingrid, France After finishing her TWA training in the spring of 1996, Jill worked a few domestic flights. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Each one of these kids was unique, she said. . Conclusion: Then another. An official website of the United States government. ""He was very successful, but you wouldn't know it.''. Accessibility An off-duty TWA pilot, Donald Gough of Mill Valley, Calif., and his wife, Ana, a TWA flight attendant, also were passengers. 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. I lost my heart, my soul, said Ziemkiewicz. Of the 230 passengers and crew believed killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800, searchers have found 100 bodies so far, and the Suffolk County medical examiners office had positively identified 46 by Sunday evening. * Romagna, Barbara, 76, of Sun City Center, Fla. 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. * Richter, Annelyse, Brousse, France 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. * Von Hedrich, Joseph, Bel Air, Md. What Happened to TWA Flight 800? 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. "That center part of the aircraft is of interest," said Francis. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies * Darley, Francois, Grenoble, France * Mazzola, Salvator, 36, of Palermo, Italy. 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. It's an open wound that never seems to heal for Jez, even 25 years later. Wolfson's mother, Eleanor, was one of the chaperones. This year marks 25 years since a plane explosion killed 16 students and five adult chaperones from Montoursville high school. * Miller, Amy, 29, hardware store comptroller, of Andreas, Pa. (married to Kyle Miller) MeSH * Privette, Glenda, 46, recently resigned as personnel manager at Beaulieu Carpet Plant in Bridgeport, Ala., of Stevenson, Ala. (mother of Thomas Weatherby) 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. * Gough, Capt. In reality, it is a very slow and tedious process. (sister of Chrisha Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Allen, Ashton, 15, of Marietta, Ga. Nothings ever the same, he said. Some of the mourners wept quietly. (sister of Brenna Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) ""She was the consummate mother,'' said Delouvrier's sister, Josephine Mandeville. Why is there an angel statue in the middle of the town? Bedison said. The reports are being sought by the families for legal purposes. "That's where they're finding stuff. * Hammer, Tracy, 29, graduate student in microbiology and veterinary medicine at Michigan State University, of Long Beach, N.Y. (daughter of Beverly Hammer) 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. * Lychner, Shannon, 10, of Houston (daughter of Pam Lychner), * Manchuelle, Francois, New York, N.Y. "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. * Brooks, Ruth, 79, of Edgartown, Mass. * DiLuccio, Debra Collins, 47, TWA flight 800 crew, of Agropoli, Italy; formerly of Athens, Ga. His grave in Totowais now a shrine for those who want him proclaimed a Roman Catholic saint. * Gaetke, Stephanie, 33, owned landscaping business; of Kansas City, Mo. 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. "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. A picture of her daughter Jill sat on a nearby table a friendly smile with wide, inviting eyes. ", Ziemkiewicz reached for a stack of letters from Jills friends, then another photo album and more pictures. Joseph A. Kirby and Tribune Staff Writer. ""I mean, these were people you had just seen two days ago,'' said Shelby Dingler, 20. 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. Some, however, believe the plane was hit by a missile strike from a terrorist or an accidental launch by the U.S. Navy. For several years she worked in the impressionist-art department at Sotheby's, the renowned auction house. * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. * D'Iorio, Christine Bailey, mother of four, waitress, of Prato, Italy (married to Pietro d'Iorio) 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 TWA 800 aircraft was a 747-100 model, built and delivered in 1971. Some people say time heals all wounds. Navy divers, meanwhile, cleared the area around two of the 747's engines. * McPherson, Pamela Cobb, 45, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City I'm so psyched!'' The flowers, given by family members of victims, were placed in the ocean by a Coast Guard rescue craft crew as part of a memorial service. * Percy, Marion, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Johnson, Leonard, 53, mechanical engineer, of Springfield, Va. (married to Eleanor Johnson) Because this was his last trip, O'Hara planned to mix relaxation with business. Breistroff wanted to make sure that Snow, a New Yorker, would follow him to France as he pursued his dream one final time. Complete autopsy records, toxicology screening, and forensic analysis were reviewed. Was it a meteor? JUDITH DELOUVRIER, 47, WAS CROSSING the Atlantic for the second time in four days. Analysis of the data revealed no global correlation between seat position and pattern of injury. Profiles M - Z. Her assailant was sent to jail, but after serving only two years of a 20-year sentence, he became eligible for parole. National Transportation Safety Board 490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW Washington, DC 20594, Congressional and Regulatory Correspondence, In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic Ocean Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-141, N93119.