Alexandre Estival

 

 

Age: 16

 

Summary: French exchange student at De La Comte Middle School on the outskirts of Clermont-Ferrand, France who was among one of 230 passengers and crew members reported missing and feared dead in the fiery crash of TWA Flight 800 when the ill-fated Boeing 747 jumbo jet mysteriously exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Long Island, New York shortly after takeoff from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport while he was coming back from a long-awaited trip to New York after he and his two friends Noemie and Anne-Lyse Richter had just completed a language course with an American host family.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: May 30, 1980

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York