Dan Gaetke

Age: 32

Summary: landscaping business owner and art teacher at Spring Valley Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas 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 to France to study gardens with his wife Stephanie Gaetke.

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

Born: May 5, 1964

Died: July 17, 1996

Location: East Moriches, New York