Judith Rupert

 

 

Age: 53

 

Summary: school secretary in the guidance office of Montoursville High School in the hamlet of Montoursville in northern Pennsylvania 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 was chaperoning a group of 16 students from the high school French club on a field trip to Paris, France.

 

 

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

 

Born: October 23, 1942

 

Died: July 17, 1996

 

Location: East Moriches, New York