Arthur Benjamin

 

 

Age: 57

 

Summary: computer science teacher at Masterman School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who was among one of 15 remaining 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, killing all 230 people aboard while he and his wife Joan Benjamin were on their way to visit two of their children.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: 1938

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York