C. Kirk Rhein, Jr.

 

 

Age: 43

 

Summary: investment banker and high-powered chief executive officer of the New York insurance company Danielson Holding Corp. 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 en route to Europe with two other executives trying to line up financing for an acquisition.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: August 8, 1952

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York