Ashton Allen

 

 

Age: 16

 

Summary: honor student at Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia 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 father Otis Lamar Allen were on their way to join relatives in Paris, France on a family trip for a summer vacation to escape the Olympics.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: December 31, 1979

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York