Twyla Nelson

Age: 8

Summary: student at the private Day School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York 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 headed to Rome where her mother Alecia Carlos-Nelson had been accepted to a prestigious writing program to make revisions.

Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident

Born: October 13, 1987

Died: July 17, 1996

Location: East Moriches, New York