Charles H. Gray III

 

 

Age: 47

 

Summary: president and chief operating officer of the auto-insurance company Midland Financial Group, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee 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 traveling from Memphis to Europe to interest investors in the New York firm Danielson Holding Corp. that has just agreed to pay $80 million in stock for the insurance firm he headed.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: March 11, 1949

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York