Joan Benjamin

Age: 56

Summary: semi-retired architect 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 she and her husband Arthur Benjamin were on their way to visit two of their children.

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

Born: December 7, 1939

Died: July 17, 1996

Location: East Moriches, New York