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PHOTOS: Loves ones mark TWA Flight 800 anniversary

Monday, July 18, 2016
Chris Rhoads, who was the General Manager of Flight Attendants for TWA, reacts at the memorial wall during the 20th anniversary of the TWA Flight 800 plane crash.
FILE - In this July 17, 2000, file photo, family members and friends of victims of TWA Flight 800 hold hands after lighting 230 candles.
FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1996, file photo, the final engine to be salvaged from the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 is loaded by crane onto a truck.
Mourners toss roses into the Atlantic Ocean after the 20th anniversary memorial of the TWA Flight 800 plane crash.
FILE - In this July 26, 1996, file photo, a woman sits near a rose she placed in the sand at Smith Point Park Beach in Shirley, N.Y. , as she mourns the loss of some of her friends
Mourners embrace in front of the memorial wall during the 20th anniversary of the TWA Flight 800 plane crash at Smith Point County Park on Sunday, July 17, 2016.
Seated in front of the memorial wall, mourners listen to the names read of those who perished during the 20th anniversary of the TWA Flight 800.
Tamra Haurani, of Gross Point, Mich., makes a rubbing of the names of her husband's parents, Chassan and Nina Haurani, who were on the flight.
Murielle Coste, of Tucson, Ariz., with her daughter, Sedona by her side, touches the name of her father, Francis Gaston Gasq on the memorial wall.
Commander J. Andrew Ely, of the United States Coast Guard who responded to the crash scene, shares memories with the crowd during the 20th anniversary of TWA Flight 800.
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Chris Rhoads, who was the General Manager of Flight Attendants for TWA, reacts at the memorial wall during the 20th anniversary of the TWA Flight 800 plane crash.
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