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TWA Flight 800 carried an extraordinary group of people, including artists, musicians, athletes and others who left their mark quiet ways. Here are sketches of just a few who died and a complete list of passengers and crew:
Michel Breistroff, 25, a player for the French national hockey team, graduated from Harvard in 1995. He hoped to play for his native France in the Olympics. He gave his girlfriend white irises the morning of the flight, and proposed to her in a call from the airport.
French guitarist Marcel Dadi, 44, had just been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. His mentor and friend, the legendary Chet Atkins, attended the event. The Tunisian-born Dadi, who sold more than 2 million albums, was headed to Israel to join his wife and three children on vacation.
TWA flight attendant Arlene Johnsen commuted between her airline job and one closer to home -- running a Victorian bed and breakfast with her twin sister, Marlene, in Grand Junction, Colorado. The 60-year-old flight attendant alternately worked long blocks of days in a row to make it all possible.
Ana Marie Shorter, wife of jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, was flying with her niece Dalila Lucien to travel with her husband in Europe. The musician credits his wife of 26 years with much of his inspiration. Dalila, 17, was newly graduated from high school and headed to Parsons Art School in New York.
John O'Hara, 39, of Irvington, New York, was on TWA Flight 800 with wife Janet and daughter Caitlin. The five-time Emmy Award winner was on his last assignment as executive producer of ABC Sports, supervising coverage of the Tour de France. The couple and their daughter were survived by twins Brian and Matthew O'Hara, who had stayed home with their grandparents.
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