Service Pays Tribute to TWA Crash Dead

Friends and relatives crowded the Mountoursville Area High School gym and football field for a memorial to the school’s 16 teenagers and five adults killed in the explosion of TWA Flight 800. “This is another milestone that helps the healing process,” said Mayor John Dorin. The small northern Pennsylvania town was home to many of the students and the adults who were accompanying them on a French club trip. The Paris-bound airliner exploded July 17 off New York’s Long Island. Joining the 3,000 people at the service were Gov. Thomas J. Ridge, TWA President Jeffrey Erickson, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and French dignitaries. Dorin read a letter from President Clinton, who said authorities are doing their best to find remaining victims.