Editing TWA Flight 800 (section)

==Background==

=== Aircraft ===
The aircraft involved, manufactured in July 1971, was a [[Boeing 747-131]] [[Aircraft registration|registered]] as N93119 with [[serial number]] 20083. It had completed 16,869 flights in 93,303 hours of operation and was powered by four [[Pratt & Whitney JT9D|Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7AH]] [[turbofan]] engines.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=Accident Boeing 747-131 N93119, Wednesday 17 July 1996 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/324416 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref><ref name="Final Report" />{{rp|24}}

=== Crew ===
{|class="wikitable sortable collapsed floatright"
|- style="background:#ccf;"
|+ Final tally of passenger nationalities
|-
!|Nationality|||Passengers|||Crew|||Total
|- valign=top
|[[France]]|| style="text-align:center;" |40||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |40
|- valign=top
|[[Ivory Coast]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |1
|- valign=top
|[[Germany]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |1
|- valign=top
|[[Israel]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |1
|- valign=top
|[[Italy]]|| style="text-align:center;" |7||style="text-align:center;" |1||style="text-align:center;" |8
|- valign=top
|[[Norway]]|| style="text-align:center;" |2||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |2
|- valign=top
|[[Spain]]|| style="text-align:center;" |2||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |2
|- valign=top
|[[Sweden]]|| style="text-align:center;" |1||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |1
|- valign=top
|[[Portugal]]|| style="text-align:center;" |5||{{n/a}}||style="text-align:center;" |5
|- valign=top
|[[United States]]|| style="text-align:center;" |152||style="text-align:center;" |17||style="text-align:center;" |169
|- valign=top class="sortbottom"
|'''Total'''||style="text-align:center;" |'''212'''||style="text-align:center;" |'''18'''||style="text-align:center;" |'''230'''<ref name=count/>
|}
[[File:PamLychnerdaughtersStatue.JPG|thumb|''Love's Embrace'', a statue of [[Pam Lychner]] and her daughters, Shannon and Katie, in [[Spring Valley Village, Texas]]. All three were killed on board TWA Flight 800.]]

On board TWA 800 were 230 people, including 18 crew and 20 off-duty employees,<ref name=count/> most of whom were crew meant to cover the Paris-Rome leg of the flight. Out of the 18 crew members, 17 crew members<ref name=count/> and 152 of the passengers were Americans; the remaining crew member was Italian, while the remaining passengers were of various other nationalities. Notable passengers included:<ref name="count">{{cite news |date=August 27, 1996 |title=Passenger List: TWA Flight 800 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twa800/list01.htm |access-date=June 18, 2008 |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514012638/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twa800/list01.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>

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* [[Michel Breistroff]], French ice hockey player
* [[Marcel Dadi]], French guitarist
* [[David Hogan (composer)|David Hogan]], American composer
* [[Jed Johnson (designer)|Jed Johnson]], [[Andy Warhol]]'s partner of twelve years, interior designer, and director
* [[Pam Lychner]], American crime victims' rights advocate and former TWA flight attendant
* [[Rico Puhlmann]], German fashion photographer<ref>{{cite web |author= |first= |title=On behalf of NINO: Rico Puhlmann |url=http://www.stadtmuseum-nordhorn.de/en/textile-history/nino-fashion-photography/rico-puhlmann.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162210/http://www.stadtmuseum-nordhorn.de/en/textile-history/nino-fashion-photography/rico-puhlmann.html |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=October 8, 2018 |website=www.stadtmuseum-nordhorn.de}}</ref>
* Courtney Elizabeth Johns, sister of [[Geoff Johns]] and the inspiration for the [[DC Comics]] superhero [[Courtney Whitmore|Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nieves |first=Evelyn |date=1996-07-20 |title=The Crash of Flight 800: The Passengers; Reunions and Homecomings Never Fulfilled and Sudden End to a Vacation |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/20/nyregion/crash-flight-800-passengers-reunions-homecomings-never-fulfilled-sudden-end.html |access-date=2022-09-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* Ana Maria Shorter, [[Wayne Shorter]]'s second wife,<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-07-17 |title=Ana Maria Shorter, Wife of Jazz Musician, Dies On Flight 800 |url=https://apnews.com/article/8bbcd1f293fd639103a2f47b593c754d |access-date=2022-03-15 |work=AP News}}</ref> and the couple's niece, Dalila, daughter of singer [[Jon Lucien]]
*Jack O'Hara, executive producer of [[ABC Sports]], along with his wife and daughter.  He was going to France to supervise coverage of the [[Tour de France]] in what was to be his last assignment for the network after being let go the previous week.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-07-19 |title=ABC Sports Producer Was On TWA Plane |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/07/19/abc-sports-producer-was-on-twa-plane |access-date=2023-09-09 |agency=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref>

In addition, 16 students and five adult chaperones from the French Club of the [[Montoursville Area High School]] in Pennsylvania were on board.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lucview |first1=John |title=Montoursville mourns: Flight 800 took away 'part of its future' |url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/07/montoursville_mourns_flight_80.html |work=PennLive.com |date=July 16, 2016 |access-date=February 25, 2018 |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225205443/http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/07/montoursville_mourns_flight_80.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Burnstein |first=Ben |date=July 12, 2006 |title=Town still mourns 10&nbsp;years after TWA 800 |work=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/12/twa.montoursville/index.html |access-date=October 8, 2018 |archive-date=July 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727094526/http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/12/twa.montoursville/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>