Michael Scott

Age: 44

Summary: physicist employed at the U.S. Air Force facility Arnold Engineering Development Center near Tullahoma, 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 with his wife Barbara Scott and their 13-year-old son Joseph Scott along with the family of his best friend Thomas Weatherby on a planned trip to Paris, France for shopping, for hiking and for practicing the French language they were learning.

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

Born: December 23, 1951

Died: July 17, 1996

Location: East Moriches, New York