Chan Rachana Teang

 

 

Age: 16

 

Summary: French foreign exchange student under the International Baccalaureate program at Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida 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 she and her sister Lydie Teang were heading to France to visit their family.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: January 18, 1980

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York