* Baszczewski, Daniel, student from Montoursville, Pa. As with many tragedies, the rest of the world eventually moved on. * Harris, Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 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. It is heavily damaged. * Hogan, David, of Paris, a Virginia-born composer who studied at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore 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. The aim, according to Francis, is to raise two of the four engines by the end of the week. 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. The .gov means its official. * Melotin, Grace, 48, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Corona, N.Y.; Jupiter, Fla. Then a photo of the daughter she lost 25 years ago when a majestic and seemingly indestructible commercial jetliner blew up over the Atlantic Ocean only minutes after lifting off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing all 230 passengers and crew. But theres a big hole in the family.. At 8:31 p.m., the Boeing 747-100 exploded over East Moriches, New York, 12 miles off the coast of Long Island. (married to Ruth Brooks) 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. A soft-spoken man in a world dominated by hyperbole and high tension, he took the dismissal in typically level-headed style. Sometimes it seems like its yesterday. The rest have been withheld pending notification of family members. WebTrans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants. Only no one was alive. Carol Ziemkiewicz still has the Bell Atlantic telephone bill 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. * Bellazoug, Myriam, 30, architect, of Paris. 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. They ask about shoe size and even type of shoes, since some victims were found with shoes still on. * Hammer, Tracy, 29, graduate student in microbiology and veterinary medicine at Michigan State University, of Long Beach, N.Y. (daughter of Beverly Hammer) The Week in Photos: California exits pandemic emergency amid a winter landscape, Column: Did the DOJ just say Donald Trump can be held accountable for Jan. 6? The mother opened her box of memories and the pain and darkness poured out again. 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. Joseph A. Kirby and Tribune Staff Writer. ""She always brightened my day.''. * Caillaud, Anthony, Cerizay, France CAPTION: A flower shop sign on Highway 25 outside East Moriches carries sentiments felt by many along the south shore of Long Island, closest land to crash site. to Patricia Anderson) * Dickey, Douglas, of Williamsport, Pa. (married to Deborah Dickey) Flight engineer Richard Campbell, 63, of Ridgefield, Conn., received his 30-year pin just two weeks before the crash. Accessibility * Teang, Lydie, France * Dickey, Deborah, a French teacher at Montoursville school, of Williamsport, Pa. (married to Douglas Dickey) But memorial gardens, while comforting, cant erase the scars of losing a daughter. 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. (married to Ghassan Haurani) 2017 Apr 20;25(1):42. doi: 10.1186/s13049-017-0384-y. 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. 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. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, POOL)Associated Press. Background: (mother of Jay Carven) * Scott, Barbara, 39, registered nurse, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Michael Scott) the victims either died instantly or were rendered unconscious when the plane exploded. An official website of the United States government. But subsequent investigations by the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board changed America. After all, so many boaters thought they saw streaks of light in the summer sky. * Feeney, Kathleen, New Hyde Park, N.Y. * Maresq, Etienne, Planquary, France Galland, Jean Paul 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. Two other men in the cockpit, Capt. She wasnt going to Versailles, Carol Ziemkiewicz now reasons. His training was informal, but priceless. 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. * Lamour, Yvon, France The community gathered at the school to mourn. It used to be that when July hit I would be upset, and just not even realize, then it would hit me but she's just become part of our life the way she is now," said Michele Jez, of Montoursville. * Lychner, Pamela, 37, prominent Texas crime victims rights advocate, of Houston (mother of Shannon and Katie Lychner). * Chaillou, Jenny, France * Haurani, Nina, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., mother of four in their teens and early 20s. 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. The * Silverman, Candace, 22, of Los Angeles (daughter of Eugene and Marietta Silverman) 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. 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. The NTSB plans to stop use of the reconstruction July 7, 2021. Later, we monitored the trail of conspiracy theories. * Teang, Rachama-Chan, France * Hazelton, Sandra, of Beachwood, Ohio, a high school French teacher taking her daughter to Paris as a college graduation gift. CREATIVE. 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. "I believe they were all totally unconscious or dead by the time they hit the water," Wetli told The Associated Press. * Bossuyt, Luc, employee of Bristol-Myers, of Trumbull, Conn. Medical investigators were holding up remarkably well as they went about their gruesome work -- opening body bags, removing corpses, examining them in painstaking detail -- when a forensic dentist looked up from one of the bodies and told his colleagues: "I know this person.". 2012 Apr;83(4):412-7. doi: 10.3357/asem.3155.2012. JACQUES AND CONSTANCE CHARBONNIER fell in love on an airplane. Passengers of Flight 800 sustained instantaneous fatal blunt force injury. It was one of many moments since the crash of TWA Flight 800 when personal feelings intruded on the practiced professionalism of disaster workers. A plastic bomb would not leave such traces, he emphasized. The cargo area has been the site of explosives in past bombings, including that of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. 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. * D'Huimieres, Dominiques, LePlessis, France An accomplished high school swimmer, her close friends called her "Jilly Fish.". 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. Before * Dodge, Warren, 50, off-duty TWA employee, of Brentwood, N.H., and Ashland, Mass. 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. The tortuous search for bodies and plane remnants was delayed as rain, wind and fog rendered the Atlantic impassable for search crews. "That's where they're finding stuff. * Charbonnier, Jacques, 66, TWA flight 800 crew, of Northport, N.Y. Then, he spotted a body. Previous reports of commercial airline disasters have reviewed incidents occurring at takeoff and landing. We were staring at this massive debris field that was still on fire, Cashman recalled. You get better. * Breistroff, Michel, 25, French hockey player who graduated from Harvard in 1995 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. But he chose another trip to Honduras as part of a science project. That determination still has not been made, and it's possible it never will be. 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. In reality, it is a very slow and tedious process. -- McPherson, * Aikens-Bellamy, Sandra, 49, off-duty TWA employee, of New York City The plane, bound for Paris, exploded just after takeoff from New York, killing everyone on board. He says he knew nearly all the students on board the flight. The TWA flight attendants met 21 years ago when they were working a Paris-to-New York flight together, and they had flown as a team ever since. It was surreal.. J Trauma. An exasperated Lychner finally fought back. The Charbonniers were only two of several veteran TWA employees on board Flight 800. * Scott, Michael, 44, physicist, of Stevenson, Ala. (married to Barbara Scott) * Eshleman, Douglas A. , 35, off-duty TWA flight engineer, of Aurora, Colo. Donald, off-duty TWA pilot, of Mill Valley, Calif., and Incline Village, Nev. (married to Analei Gough) 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. We grew up together. Steven, 57, TWA Flight 800 pilot, Stratford, Conn. Several friends from the town joined them. At 8:02 p.m. on July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 left from John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for Paris. But his dream was to compete in the Olympics. Example video title will go here for this video. 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. 2023 www.northjersey.com. 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. * Furlano, Rosaria Pares, France. He also said some of the victims were found to have carbon pigments or water in their lungs. ""I told him yes.'' 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. Would you like email updates of new search results? They ask whether they smoked, since teeth would reflect tobacco stains, and whether they had moles and where. ""She was the consummate mother,'' said Delouvrier's sister, Josephine Mandeville. Almost all the students who died were classic overachievers, the kind of model students that parents boast about to anyone who will listen. 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. Kallstrom said that three cargo bays have been located about 12 miles from the Long Island shore. She was a reporter on a children's television show and an accomplished pianist. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. * Simmons, Olivia, 50, schoolteacher and off-duty part-time TWA employee, Orange, N.J. NEW YORK Andy Krukar boarded TWA Flight 800 with a diamond ring in his pocket, planning to place it on his fiancee's finger at the Eiffel Tower during a romantic weekend in Paris. * Lang, Raymond, 51, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Tafton, Pa. * Rhoads, Scott, 48, schoolteacher, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Marit Rhoads). 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. Los Angeles, Civilians flee embattled town of Bakhmut as Ukrainian pullout looms. Her assailant was sent to jail, but after serving only two years of a 20-year sentence, he became eligible for parole. Meshulam, Avishaim Benjamin, Joan J Trauma. 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. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Collections; People stand outside the Suffolk County morgue where TWA Flight 800 victims were taken July 18, 1996 in Long Island, NY. She was going heaven.. * Kwiat, Kimberly, 26, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (sister of Patricia Kwiat) Our Transportation Disaster Assistance division and I have connected with representatives of TWA Flight 800 family groups to help ensure families of those who perished on TWA Flight 800 learned of our decision directly from the NTSB before our public announcement, said Bryson. A quarter-century later, Whitman said she is still troubled by the loss of life on TWA Flight 800. Wendy Wolfson, 16, had just returned from New York, where she performed her own piano compositions at Carnegie Hall. * Estival, Alexandre, * Feeney, Deirdre, 17, New Hyde Park, N.Y. (daughter of Vera Feeney) Her Daughter Larissa Uzupis was one of the 21 people from Montoursville High School and one of the 230 people who boarded Trans World Airlines Flight 800 and didn't make it home. 1996, the FBI opened the hangar Wednesday to reporters and victims families. On those days, when she peruses the boxes with photographs and letters and poems about her daughter, Ziemkiewicz is reminded once again of what might have been. * D'Iorio, Christine Bailey, mother of four, waitress, of Prato, Italy (married to Pietro d'Iorio) Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. The report on passenger Susan Hill, a homicide detective from Portland, Oregon, was received by her estate's Chicago attorney this week. * Silverman, Marietta (Etta) , 53 (married to Eugene Silverman, mother of Candace and Jamie) * Anderson, Patricia, 42, of Warson Woods, Mo. "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. Weaver, Monica, student from Montoursville, Pa. The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). to Stephanie Gaetke) HAUPPAUGE, New York (CNN) -- The Suffolk County medical examiner has released the first autopsy report on the victims from TWA Flight 800. National Library of Medicine * LaForge, Alain, Hermelinghen, France * Callas, Dan J. , 22, TWA Flight 800 crew, of Philadelphia * Lychner, Katherine, 8, of Houston (daughter of Pam Lychner) After it happened she's been kind of melancholy, but every year she gets a little teary. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? The TWA 800 aircraft was a 747-100 model, built and delivered in 1971. The report on passenger Susan Hill, a Silverman, Eugene, 54, a Bel-Air, Calif., tax attorney (married to Marietta Silverman, father of Candace and Jamie) ""She was a dynamite young lady,'' says her school principal, Tom Corgel. * Omiccioli, Monica, 23, seamstress, of Fano, Italy (married to Mirko Buttaroni) Such basic policy changes, however, mean little to the families of those who lost mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren and friends. * 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 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. 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 A comparison was performed against injury data from takeoff and landing incidents. 1993 Feb;34(2):282-4. doi: 10.1097/00005373-199302000-00019. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Her 12-year-old daughter, Ana Duarte-Coiner, was an overachiever as well. * Remy, Jacqueline, France 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. Below is a list of those on board, according to 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. 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. * Braman-Mosberg, Rosemary, 47, off-duty TWA employee, of Hoboken, N.J. 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. Profiles M - Z. * Loudenslager, Jody, Trout Run, Pa. 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. * Gustin, Anne, Tampa, Fla. * Hammer, Beverly, 59, of Long Beach, N.Y. (mother of Tracy Hammer) * Kevorkian, Capt. * Bower, Jordan, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Hettler, Rance, student from Montoursville, Pa. * Krick, Oliver, 25, TWA Flight 800 flight engineer, of St. Louis. government site. 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. -- Schuldt, Mike, 51, TWA Flight 800 Crew, Safety Harbor. * Babb, David, 13, of Volant, Pa. (nephew of Clara and Namik Ersoz) * Miller, Robert, 62, Tenafly borough administrator, of Tenafly, N.J. (married to Elizabeth Miller). 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. Analysis of the data revealed no global correlation between seat position and pattern of injury. (sister of Chrisha Siebert, cousin of Stephanie Gaetke) But for those most closely affected, the wounds are still fresh. The TWA Flight 800 International Memorial is located at Smith Point County Park in Shirley, Long Island, New York. 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. * Holst, Eric, 32, dentist, Manorville, N.Y. (husband of Virginia Holst) Youre talking about kids who affected almost every aspect of the school, from drama to academics to athletics. It's not Hollywood and it does not happen overnight.". * Lacailledesse, Antoine, 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. * Rhoads, Marit, 48, TWA Flight 800 crew, Bellevue, Wash. (married to Scott Rhoads) Ralph G. , 58, TWA Flight 800 pilot, of Garden Grove, Calif. * 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. 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. Murta, Angela. Officials believe the crash was caused by an explosive, a missile or mechanical failure. * Hochard, Jean-Pierre, France External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. ""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. Was it a meteor? He said the bodies will be identified through medical records and interview materials. Its dedicated to memorializing the lives and loss of the 16 Montoursville High School students and 5 chaperones killed aboard TWA Flight 800. * Griffith, Donna, Westhampton, N.Y. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. News media flooded the area. (AP Photo/ Ed Betz)ASSOCIATED PRESS. * Richter, Annelyse, Brousse, France * Luevano, Jr., Elias, 42, off-duty TWA employee, of Albuquerque, N.M. . It took months, but the remains of every victim were eventually found, aviation investigators said. He, like hundreds of families around the world, are now beginning the struggle to carry on. 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. A private memorial service for the families of the victims of the 1996 TWA Flight 800 explosion is being held on Saturday, 25 years after the disaster that killed 230 * Lohan, Britta, Barcelona, Spain -- Allen, Lamar, of Marietta. 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. The reports are being sought by the families for legal purposes. * Jones, Ramona, 61, retired hospital employee; West Hartford, Conn. * Karschner, Amanda, student from Montoursville, Pa. 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. Working with two other women, she helped establish Justice for All, a Houston-based organization that lobbies for victims' rights. Complete autopsy records, toxicology screening, and forensic analysis were reviewed. So, they're focusing on it.". He was traveling to France to finish work on a new line of fabric, which he planned to sell in a forthcoming string of his own boutiques in New York, Paris and London. People should know that.. It's no more emotionally stressful than a doctor who deals every day with childhood leukemia. * Siebert, Chrisha, 28, taught theater at Rockhurst College, of Kansas City, Mo. But mostly they were silent, huddling together and vainly attempting to turn raw emotions into words. Was this an act of terrorism, perhaps the kind of suitcase bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988? Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. The group, which now has 5,000 members in several states, has successfully pushed for laws limiting the early release of prisoners. * Ostachiewicz, Elsie, New York Damage to portions of the engines may indicate from which direction the fatal explosion that downed the plane came. You move on. ", 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.". * Ersoz, Namik, 64, anesthesiologist, of Pittsburgh (married to Clara Ersoz, uncle of David Babb) Carol Ziemkiewicz still has the Bell Atlantic telephone bill that lists the call. To others, it is a somber, bureaucratic turning point in how America investigates air crashes. * 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. A comparison of these injuries with those of takeoff and landing crashes showed differences in injury pattern and severity. But Wetli added: "We see Quincy' on TV, and he identifies people very quickly. 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 WebFind Twa Flight 800 stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. The suspension prolonged an already arduous search. * Warren, Lani, 48, off-duty TWA flight service manager, San Diego, Calif. 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. But one customer said the motives are far more complicated. JED JOHNSON, 47, WAS FAST BECOMING one of the most acclaimed interior designers in the country. Dozens of people visited the memorial room to remember and reflect- including Maynard Bogard. Officials called off the search as Coast Guard crews were attempting to retrieve what they believed was a significant piece of wreckage, based on sonar detection and a bubbling pool of jet fuel at the ocean's surface. It may have something to do with what happened here. * Harris, Lawrence, New York Lychner's husband, Joe, had planned to join the family later. While still recovering from the disappointment of missing the '94 team, Breistroff met Heidi Snow on Martha's Vineyard. * 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. They even have been attending to each other, conducting trauma "debriefings" at the end of every long day to relieve stress. Carven, Jay, 9, of Bel Air, Md. About 30 percent of the airplane has been brought to the hangar, much of it in jagged, crunched pieces, Francis said. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. 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. * Puichaud, Elizabeth, France. 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. For several years she worked in the impressionist-art department at Sotheby's, the renowned auction house. "We said you're going with the family, you're not going on that trip. "We can empathize and feel sorry for the families, but we still have a job to do. * Paquet, Ingrid, France 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.